Sentence examples for empire proper from inspiring English sources

Byzantine Greeks, forming the majority of the Byzantine Empire proper at the height of its power, gradually came under the dominance of foreign powers with the decline of the Empire during the Middle Ages.

I felt that such a wide canvas was necessary to tell the story that it contains, and also to put the fall of the western Roman Empire into proper perspective.

And they have increased the pressure for greater transparency over such matters as TV contracts or the bidding for international events.More openness, greater competition and better governance: all three would go a long way to subject the likes of Mr Ecclestone's empire to proper public scrutiny.

Immigration was crucial in transforming Australia from a small and sparsely populated outpost of the British Empire to a proper country.

There is scant archaeological evidence for the spread of Buddhism from the Kushan Empire into Iran proper.

The succeeding kingdoms and empires in China Proper maintained the Zhou tradition (Sajik) with the priority of Sa over Jik.

A proper museum of empire would tell their story too.

Australia no longer kneels at the foot of the empire, but neither is it allowed proper standing as a source of world culture.

Their predecessors were the Young Ottomans, one of the first proper dissent movements in the Ottoman Empire whose representatives favored an Islamic and traditionalist response to the empire's modernization, demanding to preserve the sultanate while opposing the centralized modernization of their culture at the hands of a shallow bureaucratic class.

Although the ICA algorithm has successfully been applied to various problems, it suffers from lack of proper information flow between various empires.

However, there were good signs too: seriously good standup, and filmed in a proper old-school venue, the Hackney Empire.