Sentence examples for fallen imperial from inspiring English sources

"The Poms were a source of amusement, a fallen imperial master weeping over a dogeared scrapbook, its tattered images of Steve Redgrave, Seb Coe, Mary Rand and those blokes from Chariots of Fire fading by the day," The Telegraph hit back yesterday, with the front page of the paper's sport supplement including a cut-out postcard which readers were encouraged to send it to friends in Australia.

After the Qing fell, the imperial family kept the treasures.

The Medvedev administration has fallen back on imperial Russia's playbook, seeking to buy off provincial officials and deploying more soldiers and police to combat suspected subversives.

It now appears that Philip Morris has indeed fallen into line with Imperial.

Might Washington, like Rome, fall victim to imperial overstretch?

(As in: "Might Washington, like Rome, fall victim to imperial overstretch?" -- The Sunday Mail of London, Oct. 12).

In a recent study of 80 such islands, all but one of which eventually fell under the imperial yoke, James Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote of Dartmouth College argue that winds and currents dictated which islands were colonised when.

While a conspicuous presence during the Sui and most of the Tang dynasties, Buddhism eventually fell victim to imperial persecution at the highest level and widespread ethnocentric reactions issuing from an increasing consciousness of the foreign nature of the teachings.

Nor was there continuity from Qin to the fall of Imperial China in 1911 - as if!

Change came with the fall of imperial China, which ushered in the Republican period (1912-49), as well as reforms and more education for women.

English critics may lament the London theater's fall from imperial grace, bemoaning a lack of revitalizing young blood among audiences, the ascendancy of celebrity over artistry and the perceived commercial crassness and conservatism of the National Theater under Trevor Nunn.