Together, Mr. Schama's two stories tell of the glorification of the Anglo-Saxon imperial destiny and then its fall into squabbling over money and committing murder.

Sumerian tribes, venturing the Unknown Places, found the valley of the Euphrates and an imperial destiny.

A change in ideology, a loss of confidence in the imperial destiny or a conversion to another destiny (such as Christianity) are essential precursors to loss of empire.

Additionally, the comuneros did not properly appreciate Spain's "imperial destiny."

The three of them are constantly plotting our imperial destiny.

Now we all love the fatherland, believe in the folk, blame the Jews, have a grand imperial destiny.

As a young man, he longed for the freedom to devote himself to philosophic study and contemplation, but he reluctantly assumed the burdens of his imperial destiny.

The individual hero must fulfill an imperial destiny.

Russia dominated its neighbors for hundreds of years; its sense of national identity and national interests arose in conjunction with its imperial destiny, and was inseparable from it.

Gigantic happenings are forming in the web and the womb of Fate, and a blood-mad sorcerer shall not stand in the path of imperial destiny.