Sentence examples for distant empire from inspiring English sources

The six-story building also has a communal roof deck with views of church spires and the distant Empire State Building.

Like the Spanish conquistadors before them, BSCH's managers might yet find it an impossible challenge to maintain such a large and distant empire.

But they went ahead with their plans to go to the Top of the Rock, the observation deck at 30 Rockefeller Center, and take pictures of the distant Empire State Building.

For his middle-class English public, Kipling maneuvered the distant Empire into semidetached coziness: gorgeously dangerous and entirely manageable, even to the hint of cloacal evil that was, after all, an integral part of Victorian comfort.

FOR most of this century, this city has been at the epicenter of Europe's history, from two world wars to the cold war, sometimes the pugnacious core of aggression, sometimes the pampered victim -- a hub of conflict whose spokes first reached out to distant empires and the death camps themselves, then drew Washington and Moscow into a destiny computed on the threat of nuclear war.

Distant empires could find it easier to traffic in oppressed people and territories, which would pass from state to state as their masters lose interest.

As the dock strike of August '89 takes hold of the city, the killing of a Jewish anarchist leads Reid and the team into the heartless chicanery of the British government's fight against distant empires and global terrorism.

In 1849 the imperial government made Vancouver Island a crown colony, expecting that an orderly settlement in this distant outpost of empire would follow.

The song is about the war that Thatcher fought in the Falkland Islands, a distant speck of empire over which nine hundred lives were lost, and about the decline of the British manufacturing industry, which devastated so many more.

When the queen embarked this month on the first of a series of Diamond Jubilee tours of Britain's provinces — not quite the distant outposts of empire of Victoria's day — she took with her the newly minted duchess as if to finally lay to rest Diana's ghost.

If the Palace Theatre was refurbished, it is easy to imagine Opera North wanting to move there too – but what would that mean for the Lowry, the company's current touring base? 4, Can Royal Opera House Manchester be anything other than a distant outpost of empire?