Sentence examples for imperial reign from inspiring English sources

Thus ended the imperial reign of VHS – unassailable in the 1980s and 1990s, until DVDs gatecrashed the party.

Porcelain vessels with imperial reign marks indicating that they were intended for palatial use fascinate the new buyers thirsting for prestige symbols.

At first, this ware evidently was considered too vulgar for court use, and none bears the imperial reign mark until the Xuande period (1425 35).

Heisei period, in Japan, an imperial reign period that began in 1989 when Akihito became emperor on the death of his father, Hirohito (the Shōwa emperor).

The catalog entry mentioned a "four-character mark" without bothering to state which imperial reign it pointed to, because the dish is blatantly recent.

The New York Democrat, playing a British parliamentarian, had come to seek a "vote of no confidence" in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales -- and thereby deal a blow to the imperial reign of President Bush the Second.

With inward-looking isolationism making a comeback on the right, endless wars are no longer the consensus Republican position they were back when Ron Paul was the sole dissenter and neocon imperial triumphalism reigned supreme.

Joachim Splichal is among the reigning imperial chef-entrepreneurs of Los Angeles (perhaps best known for Patina and his bevy of Pinot brasseries), and his latest entry is a traditional American steakhouse, Nick and Stef's, named for his two sons, in the Wells Fargo Center at 330 South Hope Street.

No, this was imperial Rome during the reign of Tiberius in AD33.

Within the first three decades of Akbar's reign, the imperial elite had grown enormously.

For Russia, a second burst of imperial expansion followed the reign of the westernizing Czar Peter I, who ruled from 1682 to 1725 and was known as Peter the Great.