After decades of being considered bad form, tales of imperial derring-do are making something of a comeback. |
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Furthermore, if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring along its imperial baggage. |
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We rejected the brutality, the propaganda, the misbegotten wars, the imperial arrogance. |
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This, one of the two main imperial palaces in the city from the 5th century onward, eventually became the only court of the Byzantine emperors. |
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In the documents of the last volume, drawn from the imperial court, you can read the Emperor's notations down the margins. |
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In 1808 the imperial nobility was completed with the ranks of count, baron, and chevalier, all of them hereditary. |
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Following the division of the Carolingian Empire in 843, the Ottonian rulers united their German kingship with the imperial crown. |
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Think of state Confucianism in China, Shintoism in Japan, or most caesaro-papist imperial cults. |
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For many of the young bucks in their scarlet tunics, what starts as a great imperial adventure ends in either a squalid death or captivity. |
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The war was a scramble for the control of the second largest oil reserves in the world and a move to establish its imperial hegemony. |
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Two grand staircases frame the 50m long ramp, sumptuously sculpted with coiled dragons, marking the imperial emblem. |
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In imperial literature British rule meant law and British force signified the protection of the weak against a barbarous bully. |
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Because of the clothing demands of an imperial court city, slave tailors and seamstresses found much employment. |
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Before nightfall, the group had seen amethyst, citrine, imperial topaz, aquamarine, tourmaline, and even alexandrite. |
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Its throne room, edict room, and imperial apartments still remain as a monument preserving the dream world of mandarin China. |
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Obviously the means used to drive out imperial occupiers are determined by the nature of the occupation. |
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Above the imperial doors the onlooker discovers the princely bicephalous eagle. |
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New Zealand finally emerged as an imperial power in its own right after gaining self-government from Britain at the turn of the century. |
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John Woodhouse did at least 72 of the 150 paintings for the imperial folio edition and 5 additional plates for the octavo edition. |
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No amount of imperial bluster, disciplined armies or powerful artillery trains could impress these hardened tribes. |
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The Meiji regime reconnected imperial rule with civil political authority and military power. |
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Rage briefly flickered in that imperial expression, then she seemed amused again. |
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The Portuguese were, unlike the other European imperial powers in laying claim to what were in effect not rights of property but rights to use. |
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The five volumes consisted of an octavo of 786 pages of descriptive matter and four imperial folios containing 213 plates. |
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John Perreault is captured in profile in a 17-inch tondo of 1980, bearded and rather imperial. |
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At Carthage, the pirate kingdom of the Vandals outlived imperial Rome by several decades. |
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In the United States, the engineers work in imperial units, while in the rest of the world, metric units are primarily used. |
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The metric system and the imperial system symbolize beautifully the conflict between the European and the Anglo-Saxon method of thought. |
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Speeches extolled national unity, imperial loyalty, remembrance of the dead, and the need for young men to volunteer. |
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Margaret Thatcher was a famous bellyacher about the BBC and never more than when the imperial adventure on the Falklands was under scrutiny. |
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He was the last Air Force chief to receive the accolade before the old imperial honours system went out of use in Australia. |
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At a towering two metres tall, her portrait dominates one of the principal rooms of the National Gallery of Scotland with an imperial presence. |
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What is presented here is a discussion of the most widely favoured explanations for Britain's imperial decline and fall. |
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As a religion, voodoo was indeed a critical force against the external authority of French colonial and American imperial powers. |
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The Warsaw Pact was part of a bigger imperial arrangement for yoking the East European armies to the Soviet high command. |
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Parliament and public greeted this imperial retreat with a fanfare of acclamation. |
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Room after room of the Armoury reveals incredible riches, including the imperial crown, mace and sceptre of the Tsars. |
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Quichua includes the northern dialects of Quechua, the language of the imperial Inca. |
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It is all about imperial arrogance unschooled in worldliness, unfettered either by competence or experience. |
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The catalogue describes an obelisk and a stele brought back as symbols of imperial conquest. |
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The advantage of these imperial gains, especially in the last third of the century, had been uncertain and unquantified. |
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The hoard contains Visigothic copies of imperial coins as well as regular issues, the latest dated item is a coin of the Emperor Majorian. |
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This was the era in which great imperial powers still felt free to draw frontiers, place and displace peoples, make and unmake states. |
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The Left's place, in this conception, is clearly on the side of the victims of the imperial power. |
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Hunting celebrated the imperial virtues of courage and manliness and confirmed the power of colonial rule. |
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As wazir, Safdar Jang diverted imperial funds for his own use, so much so that he was accused of impoverishing the Mughal court. |
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Augustine of Hippo, perhaps the greatest of all theologians, was a trained rhetor who had served his time at the imperial court. |
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The early Capetian kings were presented as Roman Caesars, imperial lawmakers dressed in togas. |
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In his other work, he has acknowledged the relative lightness of the United Kingdom's imperial burden. |
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The imperial state operates in synergy with its multinational corporations. |
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In one version the bandits and their boss join the imperial forces and from then on fight robbers and bandits in the name of law and order. |
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Kipling mocked the place, viceroys and vicereines hated it, but here the British rulers of India spent most of their imperial century. |
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In her book The Myth of Napoleon's Horse, Jill Hamilton revealed that this horse was just one of many white Arabs in the imperial stables. |
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The next year the death of the emperor Joseph brought the archduke Charles to the imperial throne. |
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Although an Italian aristocrat by birth, Piccolomini served the imperial cause faithfully throughout his military career. |
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A passionate nativism marched in lock step with a sense of a lofty imperial mission. |
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Certainly, as British imperial influence spread round the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, so too did British aesthetics. |
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The old imperial town of Kyoto has a great and long tradition of arts and crafts. |
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The imperial system of weights and measures will no longer be used when quoting prices in euros. |
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Numerous imperial and royal palaces survived into the early Middle Ages and were restored or rebuilt. |
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In the event, parliament proceeded with a nauseous display of collective royalist sycophancy and mourning for Britain's past imperial grandeur. |
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The third, a naval journal or logbook from 1853-1854, reveals clashes with pirates in the Far East at the height of British imperial power. |
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The supposed transfer of allegiance from the older, declining imperial power to the ascendant one oversimplifies Curtin's choice. |
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They have slipped back even from the freedoms they enjoyed under imperial rule. |
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Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 BC was followed by the development of imperial rule, headed by the first emperor, Augustus. |
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The uprising against imperial rule went on for many years until Numancia was finally besieged and burned to the ground. |
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However, the international flavour of Alberti's classical style found favour with aspiring imperial clients far beyond Italy. |
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He sent his son to open a trading post in the imperial capital, allowing his staff to stay there as boarders. |
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Each Cossack force had its own ataman and there was an ataman of all Cossack forces who, from 1827, was the heir to the imperial throne. |
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For the work of those artists within the imperial ateliers was subject to close examination by the emperor himself. |
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The fact that Shah Jahan directly oversaw the art production of the Mughal atelier, put his artists under strict imperial control. |
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Other writers in this collection find imperial pressure on all the states of Asia, including uncolonized China, to be quite significant. |
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Sigismund gave him an imperial safe conduct, but Hus was arrested almost immediately upon arriving. |
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A gap appeared, and soon became a gulf, when modern industry arose in the West and when imperial conquest ruined many traditional handicrafts. |
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This palace of kings is based on the grandeur and augustness of Roman imperial empire. |
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The scheme was coldly looked on until Mr Chamberlain took it in hand as part of a great national and imperial policy. |
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No, there's still only one truly imperial power on the planet at the moment, and it's just now reached its peak. |
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I belong to the old imperial class who want to put up roads and hospitals and make life easier for people. |
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And yet when the time came, Napoleon grabbed the imperial wreath away from the Vicar of Christ so that he might crown himself. |
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Much was lost in the 8th and 9th centuries as both the Saracens and the Byzantines took advantage of imperial and papal weakness. |
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As such, the campaigns against thuggee and suttee frequently cropped up in imperial apologetics. |
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Other desserts include French apple tarts, New York cheesecake, and praline imperial. |
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It anticipates a different future, as yet unaccomplished, that will organize the peasant land in resistance to imperial threat. |
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However, an ivory plaque of Christ blessing Otto II and Theophano shows how the match could dignify Saxon imperial pretensions. |
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The black stork, black vulture, and endangered Spanish imperial eagle are among the 42 species of birds that depend on the cork woodlands. |
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They need to get with the program and start enjoying the fruits of imperial labor. |
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Another category of dependent imperial territory was formed by League of Nations mandates. |
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Ciampa, who wears crisp monogrammed shirts and walks with an imperial gait, sticks to the role of advice giver in the old-school style. |
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He lived in the imperial capital Beijing from 1523 to 1526 before retiring back to his native city to live the life of a scholar and a gentleman. |
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Domestically, he has overseen the development of his country from an imperial backwater to a cutting-edge competitor. |
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It was seen as an historical occasion, marking the first time that soldiers of a self-governing Australian colony were to fight in an imperial war. |
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All through the month, Lobby Lounge serves fresh-cut and fresh-made imperial Chinese tea featuring Dragon Well, King Kuan Ying, Oolong and jasmine tea. |
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And yet the picture represents the horse precisely as an English acquisition, as a sign of his aristocratic English owner's good taste and imperial acquisitiveness. |
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India formed the principal rampart of the British imperial system. |
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Similarly, the authority of marquesses, dukes, earls, barons, counts, and other nobles had long existed side by side with royal and imperial authority. |
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And far from being secondary partners, Scots featured disproportionately in overseas imperial exploitation. |
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In the imperial system, 36 inches are 1 yard and 1760 yards are 1 mile. |
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Some radical historians, Bacher said, believed the tribe was descended from seafaring Scythian Amazons fleeing the encroachment of imperial Greece. |
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This is of particular importance since the surviving imperial portraits are copies that replicate officially sanctioned prototypes with varying degrees of fidelity and skill. |
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Ivories representing religious themes or commemorating individuals, especially imperial figures, were one high-cost, highly prestigious form of art. |
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The imperial accusation comes from the substantial populations of Tibetans, Latvians and so forth who do not identify with Russia, and yet get ruled by them anyway. |
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Back in the imperial leafiness of central Washington, that's exactly what senior officials in the Bush administration tell me he will offer early next year. |
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In 1909 they sold it to the Simons, Anglo-French brothers with major wine businesses in both Paris and London, and it was they who exploited the imperial connection. |
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So many items were placed on some pyres, that it is tempting to think these must have been tiered like the depictions of some imperial funerals on the reverses of coins. |
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The peaceful panels with Numa and Pax thus frame the south processional frieze, which includes Augustus with priests and lictors, followed by members of the imperial family. |
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Performances take place in a huge galleried hall in the imperial palace, where the muscular, groomed Lipizzaner stallions rear, prance and sashay in time to the music. |
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The modern version of globalization, by contrast, is run more along Roman lines, in which the provinces are milked to pay for the bread and circuses of the imperial heartland. |
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He was, it is reported, royally recompensed by the imperial pair. |
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This space also holds many, many portrait miniatures and paperweights, not to mention drinking glasses and tableware from the various imperial chateaux. |
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He wanted peace and harmony, and in this respect he was just another Roman ruler interested in imperial unity. |
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I got four pastel pencils in magenta, imperial purple, dark cornflower and a brighter blue and made some light sketches in these improbable colours. |
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The Eastern Qing Tombs is the first imperial graveyard built during the Qing Dynasty after the Manchus crossed the Great Wall and entered Beijing. |
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Scots emerged as some of the great imperial administrators, they explored the unknown, as soldiers they crushed native opposition and made territorial gains. |
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Today, the imperial family can be found dining at Honke Owariya upon their return from Tokyo. |
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Whether the country or the courts buy into his imperial tantrum remains to be seen. |
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It was Scottish imperial pursuits that supplied the capital needed for industry, all while concentrating wealth in fewer hands. |
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It had an assembly hall, or basilica, where the orders were issued, and there was a shrine to the imperial cult, where statues of the Emperor were kept. |
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As I have shown, the structure of opportunities in late imperial society was predicated on self-improvement in the management of human relationships. |
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Long before he advocated formal independence he was teaching both Americans and their imperial masters that the attempt to rule the colonies from Britain was a folly. |
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The imperial court in Kyoto was downgraded to a purely titular power. |
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The first mission, Mars Climate Orbiter, didn't stop fast enough and crashed into Mars because engineers didn't convert between metric and imperial units properly. |
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It was established in 1869 by Emperor Meiji as a Shinto shrine to commemorate the lives lost in campaigns to return direct imperial rule to Japan. |
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This perception refers to the fact that Bengal was the first imperial bridgehead in India and Bengalis the first group of Indians who took to English education. |
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During the absence of the moon the blue-black vault appears like a robe of imperial purple, besprent with innumerable diamonds of a lustre unknown to earth's feeble gems. |
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These water mill agencies each operated a mill, making flour for the Food Services Bureau of the imperial palaces as well as for other residents of the capital city. |
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Unfortunately the ranks of bewhiskered military men, fashionable in Victoria's imperial times, were rarely replaced by new heroes in the impoverished 20th century. |
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By contrast, one has just to think of the bicipital eagle, everywhere to be seen spreading its wings as the symbol of the age-long stability of imperial rule. |
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The Empire set up a large number of independent local mints that were authorized subject to some degree of imperial oversight to mint coinage more or less without restriction. |
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The imperial court was a secluded world of its own, politically powerless, but well equipped with funds by the governing shoguns to dedicate themselves to fine arts. |
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Washington, unbending in his role as the noblest republican of them all, administered a severe blow to imperial pride. |
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Under Peter the Great, the Romanov tsar who ruled from 1682 to 1725, Russia began a period of imperial expansion that continued into the Soviet period. |
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Sitting along the back headrest of an eggshell-colored imperial convertible was Althea in a silk dress with red and blue checks and a white orchid at her shoulder. |
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The late-life Vidal presented himself as a national conscience, a vindicator of small r-republican ideals against imperial excess. |
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The major European bourgeoisies had become imperial powers, brutally exploiting their colonial possessions and often suppressing basic democratic rights at home. |
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Did a group of righteous warriors throw off the yoke of imperial oppression? |
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Colonists like the pattens did not fight against imperial rule because they resented paying taxes. |
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By the 19th century the play had been transformed into a spectacle of patriotic pageantry celebrating imperial Britain and the glory of its military. |
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But while the imperial commander was wasting his time in comfortable winter quarters, the fugitive king busily employed himself in raising an army. |
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It was useful to recall that he enjoyed a kind of imperial status among his people, who were bound to him with solemn rites and blood-sealed oaths. |
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Translation is figured according to an opportunistic imperial discourse of rivalry and territorialization. |
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Anyone would think Mancunians came from Renaissance Florence or imperial Angor Wat rather than a rather dirty, crime-infested conurbation. |
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Fourth, the book addresses postcolonialism and liberationism as partners in praxis against imperial powers. |
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The porcelain vase with the imperial mark of Yongzheng had been used as a lampstand and the owners had no inkling of its true worth. |
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Yet as well as imperial thrones, the more democratic klismos chair also found its way into the royal residences. |
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He convincingly shows how the imperial imagery in the Persian Apadana also occurs in Isaiah 60, which he attributes to Trito-Isaiah. |
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Japan had something called the imperial Rule Assistance Association. |
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These countries talk about democracy and anti-imperialism but the truth is these are imperial powers in the garb of democracy. |
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In the classic Heian period, the court would travel to Ise to visit the shrine to the Sun Goddess and imperial progenitrix Amaterasu. |
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Moreover, he believed that zemstvos, organs of rural self-government in late imperial Russia, had held out significant political promise. |
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At the height of her imperial thalassocracy, nine-tenths of her timber and two-thirds of her cereal grains were imported. |
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Ariosto sought the protection of the Modenese from the imperial army of which Alfonso was at the head. |
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Kakukan was a clerical official at Ninnaji, a Shingon temple in northern Kyoto, which was historically headed by cloistered imperial princes. |
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Pan Am was once an imperial power in its own right, girdling the globe. |
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You'll even get to see Mirren being lead around on a leash and boffed doggy-style in the imperial den of iniquity. |
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An imperial and restless ideology, globalism is a potential force for belligerence as well as cosmopolitanism. |
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The stunning jewellery from the imperial capitals at Pasargadae and Susa further demonstrates extravagant wealth. |
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Furthermore, insofar as imperial China had real borders, it shared these with a weak Russifying Tsarism that was already on its last legs. |
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Sirloin, shrimp Creole, paneed Mississippi rabbit, imperial lump crabcake dinner and veal grillades. |
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Other species threatened by the fires include the Peloponnese wall lizard, lesser kestrel, Corsican red deer, and eastern imperial eagle. |
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Theodore was an iconodule monk at the time when both monasticism and image veneration were often under oppressive imperial scrutiny. |
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Kolodny said the Odell brewers started with a robust imperial porter formulation, and accented it with juice from Tempranillo grapes grown on the Western Slope of Colorado. |
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Metric martyr Janet Devers, a stall holder at Ridley Road Market in Hackney, northeast London, was convicted for using the imperial system earlier this month. |
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Contract awarded for Acquisition of furniture for municipal chame personality, located in the imperial plaza, district of chame, panama west bejuco. |
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The Spice Route, Olden Day China and the Forbidden City inspire flamboyant ikats, bright saris and colors such as exotic reds, imperial oranges and clay pinks. |
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Their integration into the imperial army was causing concern and resentment among the rank and file, who feared losing their volia and their participatory institutions. |
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As monumentalized, both worthies reinforced local elites' trust in the strength of the imperial defences of social formations based on violence and subjugation. |
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The 1911 Revolution, which began on October 10, 1911, ended 2,000 years of imperial rule by toppling the Qing Dynasty and establishing the first republican government in Asia. |
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As culture is perilously imperial for strategic understanding in its elusive ethereality, so geography menaces conceptual grip for reason of its physical ubiquity. |
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And if we want to change the imperial course of this nation, casting a colder eye on the prerogatives of this bloated sacred cow makes a good place to start. |
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When other people flow to Africa, they come as explorers, missionaries, slave traders, imperial civilizers, investors, aid workers, consultants, sealers, and tourists. |
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In addition to being a Virginia ogler in London, William Byrd II was also a Virginia author whose pen captured the imperial dimensions of religious inattention. |
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