Sentence examples for imperial collapse from inspiring English sources

This lapse undermines their assertion that the yearning for territorial conquest is, in fact, not a cause of imperial collapse.

Where most accounts of British imperial collapse concentrate on the 20th century, Brendon begins his story on the battlefield of Yorktown, in 1781.

Yet, amid the gloom and austerity of imperial collapse, the new government saw both the need and the opportunity for an extraordinarily ambitious new social compact around healthcare provision.

But the bit of Greek history that tends to get forgotten by the democratic partisans is Byzantium – the Roman empire in the east that continued for almost a millennium after the fifth century imperial collapse in western Europe.

Seventeen years ago, it looked as though that region might escape the worst consequences of imperial collapse.

The history of the empire before the tetrarchy was portrayed as a time of civil war, savage despotism, and imperial collapse.

We are now enduring the consequences of more recent imperial collapses: Austria-Hungary, the Ottomans and the British.

The imperial system collapsed.

China's two-thousand-year-old imperial edifice collapsed five years later, when the emperor abdicated.

Hardly a hand was raised in support when the imperial order collapsed in February (March, New Style) 1917.

One reason for the increased pressure now is that a 1998 deal between San Diego and the Imperial Valley collapsed in recent months over environmental concerns about damage to the Salton Sea.