"empire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They were about 'closing the map', creating a great continental empire which the Russians were to seek to emulate in the 1880s and 1890s.
- The political structures of a continental empire Russia acquired over four centuries was instantly shattered when the Soviet Union broke up in December 1991.
- Indeed, the First World War which broke out six weeks later was to spell the doom of Europe's continental empires, that of the Habsburgs included.
- The core elements of this framework are a type of the state (continental bureaucratic empire) that manifests three main properties in its organization.
- Russian America: an overseas colony of a continental empire, 1804-1867 (2011)
- And while Japan dreamed of continental empire and strove to realize the dream, she suppressed her own proletarian revolution.
- In 446 BC a revolt broke out in Boeotia which was to spell the end of Athens's "continental empire" on the Greek mainland.
- Vanderbilt erected a continental empire on his love and mastery of the age of steam.
- By the middle of the 19th century, with the admission to the Union of Florida, Texas and California, the United States became a continental empire.
- Getting to the meat of the lesson, the teacher said Japan decided to pursue its own longtime desire for a continental empire, and attacked China.
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