| 词汇 | example_english_empire |
| 释义 | Examples of empireThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Accordingly, these stories demonstrate outright skepticism of the empire's civilizing mission. She agrees with recent scholarship that has demonstrated that the rise of notables did not necessarily bring about the empire's decline (p. 6). Liberals, too, were part of the empire's governing establishment. Without a doubt, this is by far the best recent general book on empires available, and it deserves the widest possible readership. The former sought to argue, using various examples of imperial rise and decline, that all empires followed the same trajectory ; that they all eventually collapsed. Tensions between the foreign ministries of the two empires derived largely from their very different concepts regarding citizenship. They inform us about the aspirations the travelers pursued in these empires and what activities they carried out. In general the benefits of empires have usually been concentrated in the hands of the few, and the costs spread over taxpayers at large. There are also two papers which have nothing to do with the seaborne empires. No small part, therefore, originated from the tsarist empire's emergent middle class. Captives demonstrates the timeless way in which militarily powerful empires can be reduced to vulnerability by preying upon their citizens. The 1970s/1980s pub performance continues to be romanticised by musicians, promoters, managers and venue owners who established considerable commercial empires during the period. Without immense determination, without the sights set on unreachable targets, the empires could not have been won. The metaphor of organism for international order prevailed in most of the rearranged empires. One difficulty was thus that the new, dispersed empires seemed to require a diversity of laws and political principles. Imperialist nations needed to obliterate malaria in order to control the tropical lands in their empires. Agents of these two empires must have commissioned codices from expert scribes for official documents of this sort, which needed to be free of errors. The former controlled cities or sections of cities, while the latter were paramount rulers of larger areas and empires. The two empires were at war over the border marches in the sixteenth century. They had once been doctors, engineers, civil servants, transport and communication workers, and employees in the empire's insurance, financial and commercial sectors. In a world in which colonial empires still mattered and in which multinational states were common, that principle was highly controversial. Rather than simply ignoring the ancient empires, they actively dismissed them. The study of empires has also waxed as confidence in the self-sufficiency of the nation state has waned. Siren-like, she persuades him that duty only causes vexation and ' empire's but a gilded snare'. As circumstances changed over time, they conducted subsequent periodic surveys to update the information on the empire's current sources of revenue. Between 1917 and 1924, age-old empires collapsed and newly independent states were formed. Recent events demonstrate nationalist movements retain the capacity to shake states and empires, as well as the pieties of devout conservatives and cosmopolitan liberals and socialists. To put matters in another way, he sought to explain the divisiveness of nationalism - why it fractures wider political entities, like the empires of the ancien regime. Explaining the empire's durability has entailed a more searching appraisal of how it worked, in all its complexity, as well as greater appreciation for how that complexity changed over time. Paying attention to such circuits within and between colonies, empires and nations opens new lines of historical inquiry in the areas of visual representation, self-fashioning and consumption. I have opted to read this book as an exercise in comparative imperial history and from it draw three general conclusions about empires in the early modern period. One important feature that distinguishes the dynastic empires in this regard is the singular relationship the state had already established and kept in place with its subjects through its bureaucracy. We speak of the gradual "rise" and the gradual "fall" of empires, institutions, projects, and careers, implying that events sometimes move for a time in discernible directions. All of these references to the baths place the user at the center of an historical and cultural continuum through their association with powerful empires. In the vacuum created by the contraction and/or postwar collapse and destruction of empires there arose a whole series of mutually competitive and hostile ethnic nation-states. The resulting system of offshore finance has played a key part in the global economy, allowing those able to exploit the facilities they offer to build enormous finance-based empires. Further, he has knowledge and sympathy for the dilemmas facing empires, and is a sharp critic of facile liberal views presuming that all good things go together. There were merchants of every sort and, with the passage of time, increasing numbers of those destined to rule empires, together with the troops to defend or extend them. In view of this it is not surprising that many imperialists should adopt the language of destiny when describing the empire's past and discussing its future. Readers interested in comparative nationalism, identity formation, center-periphery relations, and links between nationalism and the demise of empires will certainly make good use of this study. The author seeks to resolve this paradox by arguing that large multi-national empires, influencing many states and nations, have taken over many of the functions of sovereign states. Artificial empires always end up collapsing because all too often they forget about the people that are involved. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Little empires have been created and there is a reluctance to dismantle them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The super-rich with their multinational empires never pay it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All the tricks of the trade, which many local authorities know only too well, would be used to keep their bureaucratic empires intact. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Their opposition may reflect a desire to maintain their own particular empires. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are often accused of trying to build up empires and take control and remove responsibility at local level. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, their chief concern was to close railway lines as quickly as they built up their administrative empires. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The great organisations and empires of olden times could not have existed without education. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Most of them have become nations as a result of escapes from empires or imposed federations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Empires and kingdoms have been tumbling down about our ears. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many have built up great empires and have now changed their views and adopted a more respectable role. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, reluctance by nationalised industries' boards to surrender part of their empires is not unknown. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The only thing that can stop it getting oft the ground is too many people looking to their own empires. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If they do not do so, we may simply follow the example of many great empires of the past and stagger forward into oblivion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am trying to prevent the use of the concession to build up tremendous empires. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The last of those empires was the great communist dream, which has finally collapsed, causing great harm to the people locked into it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the private sector, man's inclination to build departmental empires is constrained by the bottom line —the balance sheet and, not least, the bank manager. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such a patronising attitude causes immense irritation in the countries that used to belong to colonial empires. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have developed their own infrastructure, empires and money raising. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The resulting empires and protectorates were chiefly founded on what one might call the new magic of technology. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All empires which are held down by force of arms have their difficulties. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Great nations have fallen and empires been destroyed because corruption became widespread and socially acceptable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My sole criticism of the building societies is their endless desire to increase the size of their empires and set up offices in every town. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All of us have tears in our eyes when we talk about a small bookmaker struggling against the large empires. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Other nations and other empires have kept out the forces that were seeking to get over their frontiers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They will want to build empires and have superintendent embryo inspectors. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have created vast empires which are not always to the advantage of those in need. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Empires were built by force of war, and mostly war against those who had done the imperial countries no harm. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 With these enormous drug empires comes a chain of violence and terror. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The fashion of empires of lecturers in colleges far away from the classroom will do no good and will be a waste of public money. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are the masters of empires of empty housing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are not far short of the mini-empires that the metropolitan county councils became. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are the great advertising bookmakers who attempt to build betting empires, and they may be a source of danger. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I want to see the dismantling of municipal empires, with control being handed over to tenants living on estates, particularly through housing cooperatives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that the breaking down of three empires into two is not going to help this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The precedents for the destruction of dissolution of empires, apart from our own, are not good. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He pays the extra rent, which goes to the housing associations to provide them with their empires. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Great empires before us have gone under in the same way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Little empires have been built around them, and they have not missed an opportunity of flying the regional flag whenever they could. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The assets of these private empires could be far greater than those available to many individual nations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We should recognise that they are the pressures of the major combines, the media empires that have developed at this stage of our history. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Much of the first half of the century was spent in coping with the terrible consequences of powerful authoritarian governments and colonial empires. We are in the age of the monopolies, one might say of the empires. The principle of selfdetermination was certainly introduced, but the empires still actually existed. Having none of the empire's languages at his command, he has to point to objects in order to explain his experiences. The main losers in the growth of interdependent trans-national empires have been conventional states, which have seen the value of legal sovereignty decline. Historically, empires have viewed excess consumption of luxuries as threatening to their survival. Sublime genres, such as the ode, the historical novel, and the heroic biography, were in demand in many empires. Another was the sheer size of the empires. The hierarchical structure promoted by the official religion provided a template for the empire's social organization, the concentration of power within which was kept elusive. Thinking people agreed on the need for a radical liberalization of the empire's social and political structure, but disagreed about the means of achieving it. The ancient states pushed outward into these regions in order to fortify themselves against their rivals, and the unified empires continued the process. In their presence a state spectacle performed on the empire's frontiers was re-enacted in an intimate interaction with the making of social memory. She suggests that the entire visual programme acted as a narrativized map of the king's travels across the empire's frontiers. Royal servants were therefore anxious to extend the boundaries of their bureaucratic empires whenever possible, and to defend them against encroachment at all times. Furthermore, it was to continue to exert a powerful influence, economically and politically, over the empire's history throughout the eighteenth century. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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