Sentence examples for former domain from inspiring English sources

The Emperor then proceeded to break up Henry's former domain.

Under Yonkers law, Mr. Surdoval is now prohibited from working on his former domain, the waterfront, until April 2002, two years after he pleaded guilty.

In a world that tended to see all law as either international or national law, Community law belonged to the former domain and the Communities were international organizations.

Newspapers and Web sites recounted declarations of unanimous support for the party's Central Committee from a congress of local party officials in Chongqing, Mr. Bo's former domain.

Meanwhile, NBC is looking to return to baseball, its former domain, in part to add compelling live events to its evolving cable channel, the NBC Sports Network.

The former domain is instinctual and relentless, a deep reservoir of irrational drives that lie just beneath the apparently calm façade of our civilized selves.

In the first half of the 16th century, the territories of the former county were merged with the extensive former domains of the bishops of Reims, Chalons, and Langres to form the military gouvernement of Champagne.

In 1868 the shogunate was abolished, and in 1869 the daimyo were obliged to turn back their land patents to the emperor, being made instead governors of territories corresponding roughly to their former domains.

Also in Tuscany, the Habsburg-Lorraine family added the State of the Garrisons to its former domains and was given claim to Lucca, which the Bourbon-Parma family was to relinquish in 1847.

Born into turbulent times in the then fledgling Sultanate of Nejd, battle by battle he witnessed the late Abdulaziz Ibn Saud's recapture of his forebears' former domains and their transformation into the planet's pivotal oil power, the eponymous Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

For example, it is known that Samoyed languages (of the Uralic family) at one time in the past absorbed the languages of now-extinct Yeniseian tribes, that Yukaghir was spoken as far west as the Taymyr Peninsula in the 17th century, and that the former domains of Chukchi and Koryak extended much farther to the west.