Seward persisted, too, in order to act upon his long-held ambitions for the American empire.
It had lost most of its American empire to independence movements early in the 19th century.
After Woodrow Wilson became president, he and the Democrats backed Philippine independence, but were thwarted by Republicans who still nurtured dreams of American empire.
To get the maximum bang for its cash and also to satisfy local ownership rules, Telefonica has built its Latin American empire mostly through consortia that it leads but only partly owns.
Because many pieces of so-called American Empire furniture were mass-produced by later, lesser makers than Phyfe and Lannuier, interest in collecting American Classical furnishings has been at a low ebb for several decades.
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One Roosevelt battled giant corporate trusts and expanded the American Empire abroad, while the other Roosevelt inspired a nation that was hopeless and methodically moved a reluctant people toward a war against an ugly tyranny.
Many like Mr Ignatieff are ready to lend support to the idea of an American empire, moved by a desire to bring people living in failed states out of their disorder and misery, and believing that only America can run such an empire.
Cisneros also aims to build a broader Latin American media empire than Murdoch has in mind.
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By 2000 American Tissue's empire stretched from Oregon to New York and included eight mills capable of producing 919, 000 tons of pulp and paper annually, 8 product-producing plants and 12 distribution centers.
Woodrow Wilson had initially cheered the American takeover of the Spanish empire, although not as lustily as Roosevelt and McKinley.
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Roosevelt was an enthusiastic supporter not only of the Spanish-American War, in which he enlisted, but of the subsequent American takeover of the Spanish empire.
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He seeks to describe this empire through the experiences of the American servicemen defending it.
When Kendall was growing up, American politicians denied that the United States was an empire.
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The jury soon became standard in criminal and civil cases at common law, and its use spread with the British empire, nowhere more so than in the American colonies.
The hawks' candidate to take over is Zalmay Khalilzad, an Afghan-American with little experience in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, whose empire will include the Middle East, Iran and Iraq.
When decent profits were being made in one part of a corporate empire, say, just as an example, Latin American telephone systems, then those profits were used internally to fund the purchase of North American hotel chains.
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She knows how hard it is to raise children in a culture where every time they're out of your sight, they're tuning into a multibillion-dollar music, computer game, Internet and film empire that promulgates messages frequently at odds with small-town American values.
Blue jeans may be an American invention, but 57-year-old Italian entrepreneur Renzo Rosso has built a global empire by turning jeans into high-end fashion.
First, The Economist has discovered the full extent of dealings between Mr Son's private empire, Softbank and Ziff-Davis only because of the disclosure rules set by American stockmarket regulators.
Elsewhere in ESPN's digital empire, a blog by Stephania Bell, a physical therapist, analyses the injuries of American sportsmen.
Six years later, Lee, 34, sits atop a mini-empire of six dining establishments across the city -- including two Mexican restaurants, an American microbrewery and a cocktail bar.
Again and again, American buildings topped one another--the Chrysler Building was the tallest in 1930 but was overtaken by the Empire State a year later.
The model on view at the American Folk Art Museum shows that the Palace would have been 136 stories tall 34 more than the Empire State Building.
After the British empire abolished slavery in 1833, British Canada was the destination for the celebrated Underground Railroad that spirited escaped American slaves to freedom.
And the American settler uprising that began in 1775 was essentially a reflection of the tensions between this private-enterprise notion of empire and the growing financial burden of securing it both from rival European colonial powers and from displaced indigenous peoples.
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