0 a group of states etc under a single ruler or ruling power -- říše
the Roman empire.
1 a large industrial organization controlling many firms -- království
He owns a washing-machine empire.
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.
