He belonged to no party, and insisted that American capitalism had provoked racism, imperial adventures and wars and should be resisted.

Around this time, German central power declined following years of imperial adventures in Italian lands, which ceded hegemony in Europe to France, long a centralized power.

He feels personally vindicated by the demise of all imperial adventures, the defeat of fascism and the disproof of the fundamental tenets of apartheid.

And there is General Thuillier himself, the very image of a bygone age of imperial adventure.

And the spoils of Britain's flights of imperial adventure are handsomely housed.

Discussion of the fighting has stirred fears that the British mission there may be transformed into out-and-out combat, recalling Britain's ill-fated imperial adventures in Afghanistan in the 19th century.

It was strange what India meant to them - it wasn't the imperial adventure after all, it was other treasure they came searching for.

But vindication of human rights is not what the imperial adventure in Iraq, or current United States foreign policy in general, is really all about.

The heartland's distaste for imperial adventure is one of the main reasons Mr. Bush's popularity is now lagging.

German central power had begun to decline following years of imperial adventures in Italian lands, ceding hegemony in Europe to France, which had long since centralized power.