empire

It’s hard to build an international trade empire if your customers are too sick to work or die often.

Rudy is depicted as an agent of the empire, but there’s a fault line in his being.

Larian, 71, who has built up a multibillion-dollar toy empire since emigrating from Iran as a teenager, knows all about toy manufacturing overseas — and in the United States.

In that sense, Donald Trump represents something that might be considered old hat in this world of ours: the decline of empire.

The inmate who a prison governor began a relationship with was a notorious criminal who ran his drugs empire on the encrypted messaging service Encrochat.