imperium
Example Sentences
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In Poland — a nation held captive in the totalitarian Soviet imperium for decades before leading the struggle to break those chains and rejoin Europe — ideas of heroism and sacrifice endured.
From New York Times
The myth of the American imperium is deeply rooted in falsehoods and forgetfulness, in intentional historical amnesia and obfuscation.
From Washington Post
None of this has been lost on a world where the United States once built democracies: in Germany, in Japan, throughout Central Europe after the collapse of the Soviet imperium.
From New York Times
Each city, in its time, contains both the center and “peripheries of the imperium.”
From New York Times
Grotesquely expensive and incoherent national security policies have produced neither peace nor a compliant imperium, and will not.
From The Guardian
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.