imperial rule
collocation in Englishmeaningsofimperialandrule
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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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rule
noun
uk/ruːl/us/ruːl/
an accepted principle or instruction that states the way things are or should be done, and tells you what you are allowed or are not allowed ...
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(Definition ofimperialandrulefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Imperialrulewas never consolidated.
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Continued problems in the former colonies have focused attention anew on the heritage ofimperialrule.
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The social institutions which animated female hierarchies proved incompatible with the ' moral obligations ' ofimperialrule.
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Necessarily, physical force remained the final sanction for the maintenance and perpetuation ofimperialrule.
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It has been set against select species of colonialism andimperialrule.
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Empire in general centered upon questions about the coordination between taxonomies of knowledge andimperialrule.
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The days ofimperialruleare now far behind us.
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This history of state intervention into female initiation illuminates the related contradiction of fulfilling the ' moral obligations ' ofimperialruleand securing political control.
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The other misconception states that there was a major difference between those places whereimperialrulewas authoritarian and those where representative institutions could be found.
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While the radical right has since the 1970s built on this racism of colonial domination, the end of directimperialrulereshaped the nature of racism significantly.
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Yet at the same time the essays provide a picture of a state that was not simply related to highimperialrulein some teleologically straightforward manner.
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There are many other "left-overs" ofimperialrulewhich could claim an equal right.
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I am not suggesting that winding upimperialruleis easy.
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It did not work for long as a technique ofimperialrule.
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Travers concludes that 'the paradigms of "negotiated empire" and theimperialruleof force can be fruitfully held together as inseparable dimensions of colonial state formation' (pp. 12 and 14).
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Judging by its recommendations, it seems to have assumed, albeit tacitly, thatimperialrulewas an exercise in noninvolvement.
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It is not a question of the return ofimperialrule; it is a question of doing what we can in the limited context.
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However, they agreed that the republic must not revert toimperialrule.
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This was required because voters were required to supportimperialrule.
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Its name means received teaching and was a tribute toimperialrule.
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Nobles, on the other hand, often made out well underimperialrulebecause of the indirect nature of imperial organization.
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He was not permitted to levy tolls or hinder trade in any way, but eventually he defiedimperialrule.
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This common culture helped to unify the empire and the ideal of achievement by merit gave legitimacy toimperialrule.
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However, the former's distribution of his empire among his sons and relatives as fiefs caused the decentralization of theimperialrule.
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