Sentence examples for empires of time from inspiring English sources

EINSTEIN'S CLOCKS, POINCARÉ'S MAPS: Empires of Time, by Peter Galison.

That is one of the messages of Dr. Galison's new book, "Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time," due out in August from W. W. Norton.

Michael Moritz, 49 Partner, Sequoia Capital BOOK -- "Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time" by Peter Louis Galison (2003) WHY -- "I don't wear a watch because everybody else does -- but without the developments surrounding the accurate measurement of time that are described by Galison we would all be befuddled.

"I think, Tupac, you brought down one of the most evil empires of my time," one of his friends, who grew up in the music business, says.

Not to mention his building one of the most lucrative and durable entertainment empires of all time.

Those developments made possible the cities and empires of classical times and the growth of dense populations.

Salinization is known to have damaged the irrigated lands of Ur, progressively from about 4400 to 4000 bp, and may have ruined the Sumerian empire of the time.

Besides the narrative of the military operations, the inscription provides a description of the Persian empire of the time and an inventory of the Zoroastrian religious foundations established by Shāpūr to commemorate his victorious wars.

Hence Gandhi nonviolently freeing India from the greatest empire of his time, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. overturning segregation in the South, Nelson Mandela ending apartheid — intention wedded to action, focus leading to carry-through, evolution resulting from perseverance and discipline.

The Turks who then pushed the counter-attack as far as Vienna had the best-organised empire of its time, and like your empire-builders of the 1900s combined religious zeal with practical efficiency; and they both faced a fragmented opposition.It does not look like that now.

In response to the furore Oxford Professor Nigel Biggar told The Times that the magnate, who bequeathed part of his estate to Oxford on his death, was not a racist, but "an imperialist [who] believed in the modernity and progress that the British empire of his time represented".