Sentence examples for declining empire from inspiring English sources
But both countries really want to build their own defence industries, not to subsidise those of a declining empire with an uncertain temper.
A rising country should understand the embarrassment of an old declining empire and at times the eccentric acts it takes to hide such embarrassment.
Relatedly, it's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national "credibility" depend upon periodically bombing other countries.
A Chinese newspaper owned by the ruling Communist Party has marked Premier Li Keqiang's visit to London with an editorial branding the UK an "old declining empire".
MY TAKE on whether Washington, DC's immense wealth (cf my colleague) makes it the decadent capital of a declining empire (cf Matthew Yglesias) is that Washington has never been anywhere near decadent enough.
And, even if I missed the savage comedy that lightens Lucy Bailey's revival at Shakespeare's Globe, this is a lustrously elegiac production about a declining empire that reminds us Rome wasn't destroyed in a day.
By 1800, the east, with its great declining empires (Ottoman, Moghul, Qing), no longer appeared very mysterious or admirable to the British.
The emancipation of women and their integration on equal terms in education, the granting of civil rights to homosexuals, the removal, at least formally, of racial discrimination — these are not a common feature of prosperous or declining empires but unique moral achievements of this one.
The emancipation of women and their integration on equal terms in education, the granting of civil rights to homosexuals, the removal, at least formally, of racial discrimination these are not a common feature of prosperous or declining empires but unique moral achievements of this one.
During the 19th century, Britain and the Russian Empire vied to fill the power vacuums that had been left by the declining Ottoman Empire, Qajar dynasty and Qing Dynasty.
Khosrow first restored order and then launched reforms to transform the declining Sāsānian empire.
