Sentence examples for imperial realm from inspiring English sources

The occasion itself was a signal that today's Russia sees itself as a proud successor to an imperial realm which co-opted rather than converted the religious communities that lay in its path.

When a tribe was subdued and its lands added to the imperial realm, Rome would appropriate the subject-people's gods and add them to an ever-growing pantheon of exotic divinities.

Yamato and Nippon were terms used to refer to the imperial realm that came to be known, in the West, as Japan, but when ancient Japanese spoke in the most universal terms, referring not just to their own socio-political realm but to the larger world, they often did so by use of the expression tenka (Chinese: tianxia), or "all-below-heaven".

In the view of Janet Nelson, his "rituals of largesse and devotion at sites of supernatural power ... enhanced royal authority and underpinned a newly united imperial realm".

The dynamic of her city lies not in human relations to one another or to the surroundings but in the architecture and in occasional contrasts between tenements and commercial giants, quirky old buildings and muscular new ones, ethnic neighborhoods and imperial realms of business.

If he is wrong, then the Little Englanders might well discover just how small their post-imperial realm could be.

At the beginning of the Discovery show we enter a dark tomb and the realm of imperial ego.

The five pieces played by this orchestra, including a too-brief encore, reflected Mr. Palmieri's imperial authority in the realm of rumba — and the fact that he always stamped this dance-floor music with the full measure of his ambition.

Putin's Moscow seeks to reassert an imperial Russia within the realm of the zombie presence of the USSR -- ("Construction According to Putin's Model").

His grandson succeeded to the vast Habsburg realm and the imperial crown as Charles V. Maximilian was the eldest son of the emperor Frederick III and Eleanor of Portugal.

He's the man to make a film of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah to film both the depravity and the punishment with an unflinching, even eager, camera eye and did so, in 1962, starring Stewart Granger as Lot and Anouk Aimée as Queen Bera, imperial dominatrix of the damnable realm.