imperial power
collocation in Englishmeaningsofimperialandpower
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imperial
adjective
uk/ɪmˈpɪə.ri.əl/us/ɪmˈpɪr.i.əl/
belonging or relating to an empire or the person or country that ...
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power
noun
uk/paʊər/us/ˈpaʊ.ɚ/
ability to control people ...
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(Definition ofimperialandpowerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofimperial power
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Such was the structure ofimperialpowerin 1898.
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Yet over all of these the zoning formed byimperialpoweris clear.
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This combination of coercion and seduction held the key to the success ofimperialpowerpolitics.
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These focal points of veneration had astonishing links to royal andimperialpower.
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Was it essentially different from references toimperialpoweror to religion?
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It was animperialpower.
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An equally proudimperialpowerincreasingly felt itself under attack both from the outside world and from internal opposition.
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She is a youngimperialpower.
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We are no longer animperialpower.
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They occurred even when we were an oldimperialpower.
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No greatimperialpowercan impose a settlement.
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Sometimes languages disappear because of oppressive actions by outside agencies-usually animperialpower or a central state controlled by speakers of the dominant language.
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This situation changed asimperialpowerbegan to organise flows of goods and people over-greater distances, bringing into being an imperial geography of power.
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Its austere structure and rigid authority seemed to offer a surer approach to the restoration of public order andimperialpowerthan did the older humanist traditions.
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On the one hand, they harnessed the possibilities of new technological developments and created an imposing yet versatile architectural language to signify modernimperialpowerand prestige.
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How are we to build this new nation on the foundations of this oldimperialpower?
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It motivated the relinquishment of ourimperialpowerthroughout the world.
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Now we must not look back in sadness toimperialpower.
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It was a tax imposed by imperial authority, enforced byimperialpower.
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It was founded during the period when this country was animperialpower.
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The alien is revealed to be merely a lost, primitive version of the familiar, andimperialpowerflows less from civilizing the savage than from reviving the inner barbarian.
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In some cases, we may find fault in colonial orimperialpowerstructures that allow subalterns to protest oppression only in so far as they are members of recognized groups.
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It is the least one would expect of an oldimperialpowerthat we should have this ability.
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We should not weep for the end ofimperialpower: we should welcome the beginning of international authority.
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This practice fell out of use asimperialpowerdeclined.
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