Sentence examples for dissolution of empire from inspiring English sources

It's important to remember, historically, what results, politically and psychologically, from the dissolution of empire.

Growth in global trade, increased international financial transactions and the dissolution of empire all contributed to this giddy boom.

However, as Mr Darwin notes, what seems inevitable to us now the dissolution of empire in a modern world of nation states did not necessarily appear so at the time or, at least, not immediately.

Hickling joined the Colonial Legal Service, and in 1950 was posted to Sarawak, then a British colony, as assistant attorney general and, as he put it, "cheerfully assisted in the dissolution of Empire".

The Fourth Crusade (1202 1204) was initially intended to invade Muslim-controlled areas; instead, the Crusaders attacked the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople, resulting in the temporary dissolution of the empire and the sack of its capital.

With the dissolution of the empire in 1918, Diyār Rabīʿah was divided between Syria and Iraq.

Still reeling from the dissolution of the empire in the years following World War II, now the English find they are not even British.

In addition, it successfully demobilised more than 2 million men from the armed forces and began the dissolution of the empire.

Thus, the Habsburgs faced the challenge of accommodating the nationalism of their ethnic minorities without provoking the dissolution of their empire.

Instead, however, he found himself charged with the task of supervising the dissolution of the empire and bringing about an orderly transfer of power.

The treaty was the first stage in the dissolution of the empire of Charlemagne and foreshadowed the formation of the modern countries of western Europe.