The Real Madrid of Ronaldo and Zidane and Modric will be remembered as a team that built an empire and defined an era, until it all came crashing down in one night.
It was taught to put religion first by its Turkish rulers, which defined the empire as a Muslim country, not a national one.
Byzantinist August Heisenberg (1869 1930) defined the Byzantine Empire as "the Christianised Roman empire of the Greek nation".
Then there is the quality that so defined Tamerlane's empire, as it has many empires since: the capacity to inflict violence.
ENGLAND: Nervous as a bunch of overpriced chickens with a fox in the henhouse, they're wondering if the Great Green Gaffe, as one of the grand psychological meltdowns in the history of the World Cup is now being known, will define them finally as an empire upon whom the sun has finally set, radical underachievers underdone by their own excruciating self-conscious anxiety.
There are decorative belts defining a high waist in a French Empire look, and even an offbeat shoulder belt.
Later, when they began to build an empire, they defined themselves against the people they conquered.
The song goes on to define the Empire State Development Corporation and the New York State Urban Development Corporation (E.S.D.C. and U.D.C., for musicality) and describe how they function together.
In his book Christ and Empire, Dr. Joreg Rieger defines empire as "the massive concentrations of power that permeate all aspects of life and that cannot be controlled by any one actor alone...Empire seeks to extend its control as far as possible; not only geographically, politically, and economically, but also intellectually, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, culturally, and religiously".
