Sentence examples for imperial empires from inspiring English sources
The majority of the competitors came from the imperial empires of Britain, Russia, Germany, the Austro-Hungarians and France, plus the new power: America.
It might seem at first that Ripley, exploring the world just as its imperial empires were beginning to disintegrate and accumulating relics of premodern cultures, was condescending, mocking them with his exclamation points.
Starting with Hawaii, Manifest Destiny took to the water, in the form of missionaries, trade, expeditionary forces and notions of decisive sea power advocated by Alfred Thayer Mahan, a naval theorist.By now, American expansionism began to resemble Europe's old-fashioned imperial empires, which it was fast approaching from an eastward direction.
"It is these contradictions my work addresses and the complexities of a large country that was a former imperial empire searching for a modern identity".
These dynasties were followed by imperial Kannada empires such as the Badami Chalukyas, the Rashtrakuta Empire of Manyakheta and the Western Chalukya Empire, which ruled over large parts of the Deccan and had their capitals in what is now Karnataka.
But how, finally, is this corporate-military-imperial Manchurian Empire to be overturned?
However, the Swiss still considered themselves as members of the empire with the status of imperial immediacy; the empire was still considered the foundation of all privileges, rights, or political identity as can be witnessed in the continued use of the imperial insignia.
It's fine being imperial (having an empire) but not being imperious (overbearing).
KALPA IMPERIAL: The Greatest Empire That Never Was (Small Beer Press, paper, $16) recounts the history of an imaginary empire in a series of tales that adopt the voice of a marketplace storyteller.
KALPA IMPERIAL: The Greatest Empire That Never Was.
If America, militarily unchallenged and economically dominant, indeed took on the functions of imperial governance, its empire was, for the most part, loose and consensual.
