Constitutional safeguards were indeed lacking; everything was at the emperor's discretion, and even Augustus passed legislation that made anti-imperial behaviour, real or suspected, treasonable (men were, in fact, executed for conspiracy during his reign).
They are the younger generation, contemptuous of their elders' imperial adventures and behaviour during the Occupation, but apparently just as cynical and greedy.
Writing in the Sunday Times, the former ITN political editor likened the BBC's behaviour to imperial Rome, and suggested the corporation wanted to put its rival out of business.
Teaching children about the environment can affect the knowledge and behaviour of parents, says research by Imperial scientists in the Seychelles.
None of this is seemly behaviour from a pretender to the Murdoch imperial throne.
In 1850, 1851, and early in 1852, he repeatedly criticized the emperor's behaviour, the government's financial policy, and imperial treatment of an outspoken official.
But it exposes even more deeply the inherent failure and moral corruption of occupying Afghanistan and the need to withdraw sooner rather than later.I happen not to think that the war in Afghanistan is an imperial war, but more to the point I suspect that the soldiers' behaviour in this case had nothing to do with whether it is imperial or not.
Any other behaviour is a sign that they are still imprisoned by their imperial mindset.
Those early leaders' treasonable behaviour, their promotion of slavery, their genocide against native Americans, and their later imperial adventures in Mexico, in the Philippines, Cuba, China and beyond set appalling precedents.
These leaders' attitudes recall the worst behaviour of their predecessors, many of whom engaged centuries ago with the west's rising imperial powers to halt the growth of indigenous industry.
Today, it seems imperial.
