Sentence examples for imperial interests from inspiring English sources

While Rhodes was forced into the background, British imperial interests now came to the front.

Without a doubt, Iran does represent a threat to US imperial interests.

Disraeli's government was pursuing a pro-Turkish policy to offset the power of Russia and to protect British imperial interests.

Not while it continues to terrorise and bomb Afrika [sic] & the Middle East for its imperial interests".

Under these empires, the clergy was allowed to propagate its faith as long as it did not jeopardize imperial interests.

"While Muslims were shocked by the violence, they saw it as a pretext to further U.S. imperial interests in the region".

Nevertheless, imperial interest and popular pressure the Social Democrats had organized mass rallies to support the bill combined to overcome parliamentary opposition.

This was supremely inconvenient for the British government, which had a clear imperial interest in supporting the Ottoman Empire as a bulwark against Russian expansion.

Surrounded by a horseshoe of powerful African chiefdoms, it was only in the last third of the 19th century, during a period of renewed imperial interest in the interior, that the balance of power shifted decisively in favour of white farmers.

This is already naked national or imperial interest".

Ports and railways were deployed in order to serve the imperial economic interests.