Sentence examples for imperial thinking from inspiring English sources

But he did not lose sight of the place that the kingdom occupied within imperial thinking.

"This sphere of influence, this military presence, is a remnant of imperial thinking.

How ironic if a final spasm of Russian imperial thinking prompted a new round of Russian disintegration.

Catherine Hall sets out to "unearth the racial and imperial thinking in one piece of the historical canon".

That in turn was to compel Athens to import quantities of the ship-building timber it lacked, a major factor in Athenian imperial thinking.

Shushkevich blamed the resurgence of Soviet-style political trends on Russia spreading "imperial thinking" that "positions Russia as a big brother".

Antoinette Burton, AM'84, PhD'90, editor, After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation Duke University Presss).

It retains a post-imperial habit of thinking and investing globally, and it is home to the world's most important international financial centre.

Hungarians have "great technical ability", he says, but can often be complacent, harking back to the imperial Austro-Hungarian era and "thinking the world owes them a living".

But Ferdinand, thinking in dynastic and imperial rather than national terms, chose to concentrate his efforts and Spanish resources on the traditional Aragonese claims against France along the Pyrenees and in Italy.

Before the war, influenced by the Irish revival and his Welsh roots, he was already thinking about England in inward, anti-imperial terms.