Pashtuns played a vital role during the The Great Game as they were caught between the imperialist designs of the British Empire and Russian Empire empires.

He notes that Said linked the academic Orientalism in those countries with imperialist designs on the Middle East.

Irwin maintains that the issue of Russia's actual imperialist designs is avoided by Said.

He added that Moscow should "give up its imperialist ambitions," adding that political movements still existed in Moscow with imperialist designs.

Did they perhaps also have imperialist designs?

It is a premeditated policy to impose domination on the fate of a region for purely imperialist designs.

Notwithstanding accusations that they had imperialist designs on Europe, Americans hoped that the Continent would soon be able to stand on its own feet, free of US support.

She had built up a reputation as 'the Iron Lady' with some stern condemnations of Soviet Communism and its imperialist designs, before she became Prime Minister.

Ethiopia became the target of renewed Italian imperialist designs in the 1930s.

He criticised Egyptians who desired to ape the west and claimed that there was a European imperialist design to project a negative image of the position of Muslim women.