Sentence examples for imperial determination from inspiring English sources

Right away Umbrella had the imperial determination of a song that wouldn't be stopped until it had conquered everything in its path, which it proceeded to do.

These principles of imperial power and self-determination are not easy to reconcile.

But in his conclusion Ignatieff sticks tenaciously to his basic credo: "Nation-building seeks to reconcile imperial power and self-determination through the medium of an exit strategy" - "empire lite", as he likes to describe it.

British policy was vacillating; determination to maintain imperial control ended in coercion, repression, and unsuccessful war.

Anyone with the determination to find cleverness in "Imperial Bedrooms" can spot its in-joke parallels with "Less Than Zero".

Adm. Alfred Thayer Mahan's "Sea Power" (1890) inflamed his imperial passions; the naturalists Audubon and Spencer Fullerton Baird hardened his determination to resist the ravagers of America's natural beauties.

He has also exploited widespread anti-Western and "anti-imperial" sentiment, making much of the West's apparent determination to oust him.

Macquarie's efforts had the effect of stiffening opposition to Emancipist ambitions, and in the aftermath British imperial policy tended to support the free-settler faction (see Exclusive) in their determination to deny the Emancipists full citizenship.

Some British Eurosceptics believe the eurozone and perhaps the wider EU project are fated to collapse because the imperial ambitions of arrogant elites inevitably collide with national demands for self-determination.

Generally, the Western imperial and former colonial powers have never supported decolonization and true self-determination of the African people.

Mark's Gospel stresses the deeds, strength, and determination of Jesus in overcoming evil forces and defying the power of imperial Rome.