Sentence examples for imperial from inspiring English sources

Britain joined late, in 1973, but some English people – perhaps steeped in Britain's maritime, free-trade and imperial traditions – felt wary or hostile towards the EU.

And so many of the cultural affiliations of military life – regiments, the Royal British Legion, the commanders-in-chief – are intimately bound up with the historic Protestant and imperial attributes of the British royal family.

A noble dish that once graced the banquet tables of the imperial Mughal court, rich with cream and nuts and heavily scented with expensive spice, has become a byword for bland, a "starter" curry, beloved of children and others with unadventurous tastes.

Which, despite my distinct lack of imperial kitchen space, proves surprisingly simple to make at home.

For those still working in imperial measurements (that's you America), this is about 120 cubic miles.

Uncontrollable capital flows have demoted even the elected leaders of former imperial nation-states such as Britain and France into enablers of investor-friendly climates.

On the best interpretation Powell, a man of strong imperialist sympathies, was ungenerous in treating the post-imperial human legacy with such cynical or at least selfish disregard.

Relevant issues remain relevant irrespective of occasion and circumstance, and concerns that the US is using the situation as an excuse to increase neo-imperial dominance within the African continent are no small matter.

And is doing nothing really the post-imperial humiliation some imagine it to be?

Salim's story articulates a vision of disorder and decline in a moment of post-imperial upheaval that has made Naipaul vulnerable to accusations of having reactionary artistic politics.

Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq, Afghanistan – these are post-imperial conflicts, they say.