imperium
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To challenge that French postcolonial imperium built by cunning, corruption and covert skullduggery, Moscow needed an operative who could match Jacques Foccart’s legendary mastery of the dirty business of empire, measure for measure.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2023
Provincial governors had imperium, or jurisdiction over a territory or military legion.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
If nations are to save us from the imperium, one would expect them to operate differently from the nations of today.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022
Poland, among other European states with experience of life in the Soviet imperium, expressed alarm.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2022
Dictatorially extending Andean verticality, the imperium shuttled people and materiel in and out of every Andean crevice.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Even in the most elementary communities, family-organisations, as we know them, are at most imperia in imperio.
From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Sir Henry Sumner Maine
The court was part of the general immunity which made these quarters imperia in imperio: their exemptions from tolls and from financial contributions is parallel to their judicial privileges.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
