Sentence examples for imperial entity from inspiring English sources

Few in London would seriously lament the loss of Scotland, or the disintegration of an imperial entity – the UK – that no longer has an empire.

He brought in Jenny Holzer and Donald Judd to energize the displays of Biedermeier furniture, Mamluk carpets and assorted applied arts in what had become a fusty storehouse founded as an imperial entity in 1864; organized surveys of Soviet art; opened an art center in Los Angeles; and is seeking to transform one of Vienna's Nazi-era antiaircraft towers into a contemporary art space.

Only between A.D. 220 and A.D. 370 was Rome the world's most extensive imperial entity.

Empires also invariably meet both resistance and push back from within the empire, and competition from other imperial entities beyond their borders, both of which ultimately inflate those costs substantially.

The reason: power itself may never have been as centrally located in imperial or national entities as was once imagined.

Tacitus viewed the first imperial century as an entity.

This so-called group of high-ranking officers might possibly have existed in imperial times as an absolute entity, but not entirely even then.

We find that tributary relationships and political entities of the Aztec imperial forces are better captured through a theoretical perspective that defines political entities as networks, while Hñahñu (Otomí) territoriality, usually defined by watershed divides, is more accurately illustrated using a model based on territory and boundaries.

The million or so individual names and bodies that the IWGC put on the landscape are less an imperial aufhebung – an assimilation into a large entity – than a gathering of the dead that can be interpreted in many ways.

China's long tradition of regulating and managing various groups with different languages and cultures allowed it to maintain a unified country; the surname and ethnic background of imperial families changed, but the unified political entity continued under a new dynastic name.

In a jurisprudential context, micro-states are not, properly speaking, countries at all: imperial devolution has simply vested former colonial entities with sovereign rights without regard to their ability to fulfil sovereign duties.