Sentence examples for world empire from inspiring English sources
11 was the 'open sesame' to the path to world empire," he said.
Now his world empire, with interests in sugar, brewing and tourism, is worth £160 million.
That put an end to his dream of a new world empire in the Caribbean.
This last enterprise (1480) indicated that he intended to invade Italy in a new attempt at founding a world empire.
These buildings were built as the headquarters of a world empire, and they were built for the ages — enormous, imperially scaled buildings.
Overextended, the British sought partners to share the burdens of a world empire and were obliged in return to look kindly on those partners' ambitions.
It's been the capital of not one but two world empires, the Byzantine and the Ottoman.
My god, Baghdad, this is one of the seats of one of the great world empires, right in the middle of the Gulf.
Wallerstein's Modern World System (MWS) theory pointed out that before the arrival of the nation-state political system in early modern Europe, the international system had been characterized by successive world empires.
The current war, Rosenzweig suggests, pits three world empires against one another to decide which will guide the globe towards its ultimate unification.
His books include "The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order" (2008) and "How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance" (2011).
