Sentence examples for empires from inspiring English sources
Medieval mapmakers wanted to chart their orientation to the Garden of Eden or Mecca; Mercator wanted to make things easier for sea-faring navigators; and colonialists wanted to plot the extents of their empires.
Even without the east coast franchise, Branson's rail and air empires both now link London and Scotland.
For now, Hollywood holds that territory – but all empires fall, if they do not adapt swiftly and radically to changing circumstances.
Of course, when empires fall, they do so with surprising speed – and there will be those who judge that this petition attracting more than 190,000 signatures constituted America's formal resignation as the world's foremost superpower.
I could tell you all about how the Triple Entente thought that their Empires were waaaaay better than the Triple Alliance's, and how they both got jealous of each other's cool army stuff and I'm sure that Serbia comes into this somewhere.
"Great empires have been overturned.
Amazon and Infosys built global empires in bookselling and IT services respectively.
Ideally, money from these "cash cows" should be redeployed to the stars, but the cash cows' managers may fight to keep some of it for their empires.
After the war the Treaty of Versailles carved out new countries from what remained of the old pre-war empires.
It confronted the "evil" empires of communism and socialism.
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.
