But if the imperial attribution is to mean anything, an empire has to have at least two characteristics besides those of huge might and a willingness to use it.
But the drafters of the first Imperial House Law decided not to allow women to ascend the throne in order to preserve the single line that, according to legend, is descended from the sun goddess, Amaterasu Omikami.
When, in 1919, Ataturk set out to turn Asia Minor into a modern nation state, he was opposed not only by the Allied armies which had occupied important bits of it, but also by the imperial government that employed him.
But the final holiday coup was attending the Imperial Ball on New Year's Eve, one of the finest remnants of court tradition.
But the Lockheed team was using imperial units, so data passed between the two groups were interpreted incorrectly.
What we encountered in this case was not the dismal tradition of Realpolitik, by which the West offered credit to totalitarian regimes, but a conscious preference of the imperial communist center to rapidly strengthening democratic forces.
But after she joined the imperial family , she began to suffer from a stress-related illness.
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And in the past week, requests have poured in from China, where petitioning the central government in Beijing dates back to imperial eras, but where nowadays the tradition is usually fruitless and sometimes perilous.
But the region was also repeatedly invaded by powerful conquerors with imperial ambitions, from the Scythes and Mongols to the Russians.
Professor Georgina Mace, from the Centre for Population Biology at Imperial College London, welcomes the analysis but also questions whether we really need to know the names of all species.
But even in the city's commercial and Imperial heyday during the 19th century, it never had such a lead in relative attractiveness as it does today.
The trusts are run from Chicago, yet have a legal presence in the Bahamas, where they have a Bahamian trustee--the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Trust Co. (Bahamas)--but engage the Chicago-based International Financial Advisors (IFA) for accounting, administrative work and financial advice.
Pena Nieto has made other changes that haven't drawn the fanfare, but have potentially far-reaching consequences for the power of the president, a once-imperial role during PRI rule that was weakened after the National Action Party won the presidency 12 years ago and ushered in a more democratic Mexico.
The UK had been due to set a date for phasing out all its imperial measurements within three years, but the European Commission will announce later it is leaving all future decisions to the British government.
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Mr Putin said the West saw Russia's campaign in Chechnya as a relapse into imperial policy but "we should categorically reject this interpretation, " which sought to isolate Russia from the rest of the world.
World War I turned Wilson not only against German militarism but against the structure of world politics and economics that the imperial struggle for colonies had sustained.
The strong arm passage of ObamaCare may have been the wake up call that those in power think it in their power to mandate the purchase of a commercial product, but evidence of their imperial ambitions now pervades our lives.
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The children, who live in the adjacent San Diego and Imperial counties in Southern California but had no known contact with one another, have since recovered.
But Professor Peter Sever, of the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London, said there were already effective drugs for heart failure and that Viagra's action was not unique.
Sokurov has made not a documentary, however careful his inspection of painted surfaces, but a collection of small, sorrowful dramas wait for the imperial children, or the blind woman caressing a marble sculpture.
Much of this is the routine lot of immigrants everywhere, but with a cutting post-imperial edge.
But by taking over the Spanish empire, America had become the kind of imperial power it had once denounced.
Sounds sadly to true to Sony's imperial style, but then again it's not like the HD-DVD have been all that willing to work things out either.
But it is of great interest to Mr Lieven, one of the ablest historians of imperial Russia.
As for Imperial Nurseries, a company representative would not speak on tape but said the employers were horrified at the allegations.
The 100th anniversary on October 10th of the uprising that caused the collapse of China's last imperial dynasty will be celebrated on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but not in collaboration.
They describe how the political institutions bequeathed by the departing imperial powers, have, by and large, been left in place but hollowed out.
Macaulay spent four years in Calcutta, the imperial capital that was at the centre of an intellectual and cultural renaissance, but very little of that is mentioned in his writings.
But he nevertheless ordered all of his troops on Bataan to lay down their arms and surrender to the Imperial Japanese.
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