Sentence examples for imperial greatness from inspiring English sources

President Putin models himself on Peter the Great, whose reign is reminiscent of a Russian imperial greatness which the Kremlin is keen to promote.

Britain's rise to economic and imperial greatness was intimately connected with slavery.

Nurhachi named his dynasty Jin, sometimes called the Hou (Later) Jin, in an attempt to rekindle the desire for imperial greatness among the Juchen people.

This was the dog-whistle narrative of the Brexit referendum campaign – apart from the appeal to imperial greatness, there was the demand to "get our country back".

The Macedonian king is reviled in Iranian culture for destroying the seat of Persian imperial greatness at Persepolis after defeating Emperor Darius III in 330BC.

Although it was a fact of the Greek world that geography deterred the rise of an empire to federate and control all the cities, a few nevertheless rose to imperial greatness.

That sense of the capital's river as a mythic place of transit abides, onwards from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, in which the Thames is a conduit for imperial domination – "What greatness had not floated on the ebb of that river into the mystery of an unknown Earth! … The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empire".

Britain has committed unquantifiable acts of cultural terrorism – tearing down statues and palaces, and erasing the historical memory of other great civilisations during an imperial era whose supposed greatness we are now, so ironically, very precious about preserving intact.

"It's one of the ways to reflect the imperial concept … The greatness was visible in this concept, in these great orientation points.

A good-natured, benevolent, affable monarch, he was imbued with the belief in the splendour of the imperial crown and the greatness of his dynasty.

The lost greatness of the imperial period can thereby be fleetingly restored".