Sentence examples for democratic empires from inspiring English sources

The fate of previous democratic empires suggests that such a conflict is unsustainable and will be resolved in one of two ways.

But the best bet may be the I, Claudius of the Democratic empire, Gray Davis.

This theory ultimately found its logical end under the future democratic empire of the military populist Julius Caesar.

He regarded the EU as an attempt to build an anti-democratic empire.

Intentionally or not, the people of the United States already are well embarked upon the course of non-democratic empire.

As empires crumbled, democratic impulses were overwhelmed by a new doctrine of self-determination which enabled foreign companies to retain control.

Mr Pagden unravels two intertwined threads: one leads from Alexander to the early-modern Spanish monarchy and King Leopold's Congo; another from ancient Rome to the United States and the lately vanished empires of democratic nations.

The Chicago Tribune noted that White House officials saw President George W. Bush's plain talk about "evildoers" as a virtue: "He is bringing 'moral clarity' to a convoluted world, aides said, just as President Ronald Reagan did when he declared the Soviet Union an 'evil empire".' Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman agreed last month that Bush "has brought a moral clarity to the conflict we are in".

This in effect makes him a "Prince", though as he claims the democratic nature of the Empire makes him no more eligible for the throne than anyone.

Having lost Congress to the Tea Party, which wants to slash the federal budget to zero, you'd think the senior Democratic senator from the Empire State would have more important things to concern himself with.

In a world of Empire, they suggest, democratic power won't resemble any democracy that has come before.