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How to use the word empires in a Sentence?

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It wasn’t a change of heart that caused Beijing to pull back its regulatory push on tech companies, it was a concession to economic reality, the goal of furthering state control over sprawling tech empires, however, wasn’t abandoned.

Brock Silvers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Afghanistan is the Graveyard of Empires. Afghanistan is a swamp, the more you move, the more you bog down.

Suhail Shaheen

added by anonymous
3 years ago

It is a reminder of a truism of history : one day empires leave.

Peter Layton

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Today, after decades of consolidation and deregulation, just a small handful of companies control almost everything you watch, read, and download, given that reality, we should not want even more of the free press to be put under the control of a handful of corporations and 'benevolent' billionaires who can use their media empires to punish their critics and shield themselves from scrutiny.

Bernie Sanders

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There are 4 empires and we are at the end of the 4th, and there is no text, no hint that the current return fails. At what price, that's another problem.

Rav Yehuda Leon Ashkenazi (Manitou)

added by davidb
6 years ago

Ted Cruz loves God, he loves James Madison and he's a strict constitutionalist. You know what Ted Cruz understands, god raises these empires up. It is God who brings them down.

Phil Robertson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The Battle of Gallipoli is truly a reminder that the Great War was truly a world war...It destroyed old empires and created new fissures, on this centenary occasion, it seems to me we must remember the heroism of both sides.

Prince Charles

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

History demonstrated that all the empires who reached the highest peaks of development never reformed on time and they are all headed for destruction, the IOC system today is expired, outdated, wrong, unfair and not at all transparent.

The Romania-born Vizer

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

Montesquieu

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.

Rudyard Kipling

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The knowledge, wealth, and development gaps among nations is reducing and the reign of superpowers is shortening. Just look at the history of the Roman, Islamic, Russian and British empires, the newer the power the shorter the reign. In the economic and business worlds the same power cycles apply. Ford, IBM, Nokia and other companies lost their leadership position to newer companies faster than their predecessors

Med Jones

added by seattle29
13 years ago

The knowledge, wealth, and development gaps among nations is reducing and the reign of superpowers is shortening. Just look at the history of the Roman, Islamic, Russian and British empires, the newer the power the shorter the reign. In the economic and business worlds the same power cycles apply. Ford, IBM, Nokia and other companies all lost their leadership position to newer companies.

Med Jones

added by seattle29
13 years ago

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.

Frank Herbert, Dune

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

Edward Thorndike

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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