Sentence examples for different empires from inspiring English sources

One city in Europe has been the capital of three different empires.

In the course of centuries, various parts of present-day Kazakhstan were incorporated into different empires.

The hodgepodge dialect of a town that ten different empires had captured on their way to someplace else.

Istanbul, once called Constantinople and before that Byzantium, has been the capital city of three different empires.

In the past, the region that is now Xinjiang was under the control of many different empires.

Mr. Greer said: "The way race, gender and religion in the Americas intertwined can be better understood when we compare how the different empires took root, rather than constantly holding them up to Europe.

A different empire, that of scientific reason, is certain to fare better, as all three eloquent communicators about science (Rees, Jones and Dawkins) concertedly showed.

How is America's "empire" different from empires of the past?

Macdonald puts Bob Marley at the centre of a larger narrative: the story of Jamaica itself, striving to find its way past two different cultural empires, Britain and the US, and to find a peaceful solution to sectarian gangsterism and crime.

"There would have been a very different British Empire," had the electors plumped for Henry, "and perhaps also a more British Europe".

We'd probably have ended up with a rather different British Empire: slavery might have persisted longer, transcontinental expansion would have been slower, and Britain might not have been able to stave off the French revolutionaries (but the what-ifs begin to pile up badly here).