Sentence examples for fall of empire from inspiring English sources

Nearly a quarter century after the fall of empire, Putin has unleashed an ideology of ressentiment.

Gove's new curriculum offers children in primary and secondary schools a sweep of history, starting with stone age settlers in Britain, to be taught in the first years of primary school and, ending at the age of 18, with a look at the fall of empire, the rise of the Commonwealth and the country's relations with the "wider world", along with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Hong Kong is a symbol of the fall of Empire, and the nostalgia for a crumbling colonial life infuses novels like Jane Gardam's Old Filth trilogy, which covers the last half-century of British dominance, beginning in the 1930s.

For him, the UK is not a museum but a compelling case study, a country which has weathered industrialisation, urbanization and the rise and fall of empire, all without the bloody revolutions China has been prone to.

The 14th-century Arab historian Ibn Khaldūn incorporated demographic factors into his grand theory of the rise and fall of empires.

"The Decline of the West" was the first notable book to theorise about the rise and fall of empires.

And when the curriculum talks about the rise and fall of empires it still only means the Roman empire.

To statesmen, ruins predict the fall of empires and to philosophers the futility of mortal man's aspirations.

The fate of the phone booth -- compared with the rise and fall of empires -- may seem insignificant.

Titled "The Time of the Empress," it's meant to suggest a long perspective on the rise and fall of empires.

It's one of the most interesting historical sites around Beijing, and a quiet place to meditate on the rise and fall of empires.