Sentence examples for imperial role from inspiring English sources

But those boobs were as much a burden as America's imperial role.

Mohandas K. Gandhi's insistence on nonviolence enabled India to help Britain out of its imperial role.

But this observation has received little public attention in Japan, where newspapers hesitate to question the imperial role in the war out of fear of nationalist groups.

To be the core leader and the chief executive licenses him to play an almost imperial role in shaping the fate of the nation.

Regally affable with the new recruits, he nevertheless took umbrage at the suggestion that his imperial role model was a bloodthirsty madman.

Notwithstanding reassurances to his German supporters of his commitment to effective rule in Germany, Henry's view of his imperial role differed little from that of his Ottonian predecessors.

The postwar wave of globalisation was also striking for the process of decolonisation, which saw many cities lose their imperial roles.

Can Britain actually move into a post-imperial role, or must the UK continue to punch above its weight by retaining nuclear weapons and a deployable military?

In fact, despite murmured criticisms of President Bush's preventive war on terror, he pretty much takes American leadership for granted, though he says little about the costs or capacities of adopting a semi-imperial role.

He sees EU membership as crucial to Britain's search for the post-imperial role that Dean Acheson, an American secretary of state under President Harry Truman, famously said it had not yet found.

He's also managed to retain his post-imperial role as the playboy hero of the Western world, a position firmly established in 1961 when White House publicists, to further Jack Kennedy's image, put it around that Ian Fleming was the President's favourite light reading.