Sentence examples for imperial model from inspiring English sources
At present we suffer from an imperial model of public services - the Emperor Milburn [health secretary Alan Milburn] decides who will do what through the British NHS.
But dynastic aspirations may explain why companies that appear as cosmopolitan as Wang Laboratories in Lowell, Massachusetts still maintain an imperial model at their core and often fall apart.
The royal household (officium palatinum), which imitated the Roman imperial model, assisted the king in governing, but when necessary the king also consulted assemblies of magnates and notables (aula regia).
Yet Gaozu's establishment of central control over only a third of the empire the other two-thirds of territory was controlled by semi-autonomous kingdoms strayed from Qin's imperial model which gave the emperor direct control over all of China.
In contrast to the Imperial model, however, Europe - developing from city-republics [ 9] - inclines to a decentralised competitive model.
In Africa the Vandal kings Gunthamund (484 496) and Hilderic (523–?530) issued silver and bronze coinage, respectively, inscribed with their names; the types and denominations looked to imperial models and, in the case of the bronze, to those of Carthage especially.
"The Russians still think in their old imperial models".Mr Borisov has already declared that Bulgaria would back the South Stream project only if it got the EU's approval.
The types of Merovingian gold coins diverged increasingly from imperial models: nearly all of them were inscribed on the obverse with the name of the issuing authority, most often municipal, and on the reverse with that of the moneyer.
Regally affable with the new recruits, he nevertheless took umbrage at the suggestion that his imperial role model was a bloodthirsty madman.
It was there that he constructed a vast palace, which was based upon a late imperial Roman model and of which only the Palatine Chapel remains.
She turned the old Aquarium Theatre in London into the Imperial Theatre, modeled on a Greek temple, and opened it under her own management in 1901.
