Sentence examples for empires up from inspiring English sources

The Canadian heritage minister, Sheila Copps, who oversees Ottawa's cultural department, said on Tuesday that the review was prompted by recent decisions by the newspaper giants Hollinger International and Thomson to put huge parts of their empires up for sale.

Lane recently made the documentary film Nuts! about Dr John Romulus Brinkley, an eccentric who built an empire up during the Depression era with an impotence cure.

On her 35th birthday Friday, she receives the final portion of her inheritance, pushing her ownership of the West Coast-based In-N-Out Burger restaurant empire up to 97% and making her a billionaire, worth an estimated $1.3 billion.

This was the century when empires gave up their colonies, draconian laws were rewritten, and old prejudices overturned.

The City and the empire grew up symbiotically.

"If you kill the emperor, the empire's up for grabs.

Green buys the Arcadia empire, snapping up brands including Topshop, Dorothy Perkins and Burton.

2002 Green buys the Arcadia empire, snapping up brands including Topshop, Dorothy Perkins and Burton.

Soho Estates is the property empire set up by the so-called King of Soho, Paul Raymond.

Hofmiller's uniform from a collapsed empire ends up soaked in blood.

His victorious wars against Babylonia were glorified in an epic poem, but his empire broke up soon after his death.