Sentence examples for imperial drive from inspiring English sources

The spirit of the times would have made it natural for the 37-year-old Lewis to be part of the burgeoning imperial drive.

Is this what you mean when you write about Islam's imperial drive to extend its reach and root out the unbeliever?

The Bolsheviks came to power in 1917 preaching a new world order, but soon took up the imperial drive of the czars, effectively enslaving the nation to build a bigger army, to conquer more territory, to demand greater respect.

By comparing the Russian situation with those of other empires, however, Lieven is able to show with much greater force and nuance how certain social conditions often portrayed as peculiarly Russian in fact derived from the imperial drive to defend a sprawling, multinational empire against better-financed and more secure enemies.

Back-to-back wars in which Britain sustained devastating losses were enough to stunt and eventually thwart the imperial drive, however, and England had to spend most of the 20th century taking care of herself rather than carrying out her solemn mission to "civilise" the globe.

Moreover, the imperial drive means war because the peoples in Russia's path will resist, and the Russian state cannot sustain the burdens of empire.

Lacking popular support, however, Theodosius fled Alexandria and took refuge in a neighbouring monastery until late May 535, when imperial troops drove the extremist Monophysite party from Alexandria.

The reconstruction of the Balkans by Western governments, led by the United States, has always been an imperial project, driven by a clear, if reluctantly grasped, imperative to replace the collapsed Communist state of Tito's era with a new architecture of states that would bring stability to a combustible corner of Europe.

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We survived another imperial conquest driven at least partially by religious violence by speaking to our colonizer in a way that would heal him of his own ignorance and inhumanity.

The only reason that Vitellius, Commodus, Nero or any other imperial miscreants didn't drive a Bentley into a hotel pool at the climax of a cocaine-fueled bender was that Rome fell centuries before the creation of the internal combustion engine or hard drugs.