Sentence examples for fall of empires from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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

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

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

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 Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires.

THE MASTER SWITCH: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, by Tim Wu (Vintage, $15.95).