Sentence examples for ties of empire from inspiring English sources
Sentimental ties of empire remained strong enough for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II in 1954 to provoke mass emotion.
Canada thus worked with the Union of South Africa and the Irish Free State to disentangle some of the formal ties of empire, and King was instrumental in restricting the authority and status of British governors general in the self-governing dominions.
Like the nation itself, its identity shuttles between Britishness and Englishness, still tied to nostalgic memories of empire and war.
In his mind, British modernization and progress — and throughout the first part of his career he was seen, above all, as a progressive — were always tied up with the cult and religion of Empire.
Is this an end-of-empire moment?
News flash: two hundred or so years ago, in the Age of Empire, women were scaling snowbanks in scandalously sheer nightie-like gowns, tied under the bosom with limp ribbons.
To me, it smacks of Empire.
The era of empire is finished".
base of Empire State Building — Day".
Was this the first day of empire?
