Sentence examples for imperial notion from inspiring English sources

In 1595, trying to schmooze a dodgy, homicidal Welsh dynasty, he kept more than half a glance on its self-opinionated successor, James Stewart of Scotland, with his imperial notion of kingship and sovereignty.

Dmitriev is eager to democratize Peter the Great's imperial notion that beauty can elevate a nation; he believes that the pursuit of beauty -- especially in a city still marred by unkempt communal housing -- is a free people's duty.

This is Boys Own Paper stuff, but with a sense of history, so Rushby sees that the real crime of the Thugees was to interrupt the cozy British opium trade, and that the British fantasy of a religious, hereditary conspiracy against order had everything to do with the infamous imperial notion of "criminal" tribes, whose smallest baby was already, in the eyes of the Raj, a malefactor.

Once Vladimir had adopted Christianity in 988, his rule was supported by the propagation of Byzantine notions of imperial authority.

Joan Vennochi, an op-ed writer for the Globe, notes in her column that "the community disliked the notion of an imperial governor and the local police asked him to take it down".

This is an ancient notion, dating back to imperial times, when an emperor's reign was believed to be legitimised by a so-called "mandate of heaven," (tianming), that conferred the right on a sovereign to rule.

When Putin chose to use this specific term to describe Ukraine's east on Thursday, many worried he was openly embracing the notion of an old imperial Russia, one which held control over what is now a sovereign country.

One, The Regency, seems to embody in its name all our exploded notions of Hollywood's imperial heyday.

But in many ways, Britain is the world capital of threatened emigration, presumably because nothing crystallises our post-imperial diminishment so perfectly as the notion that the loss of Griff Rhys Jones from our shores might be meaningful.

This sounds an extraordinarily cynical piece of contemporary geopolitics-speak – but after all it is only a variant of the notion of "vital interests" of imperial powers through the centuries.

Yet the film takes no interest in the kind of ordinary person, outside the dictator's compound, who swallows whole the notion of Japan as an imperial power and the emperor as divine.