Russia fears Islamic influences in its old empire and will seek to keep a hold on the country through the deal.
The Americans' influence may be more durable in the poorer parts of the old Soviet empire.
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He came from a long line of bankers who had financed trade in the old Ottoman empire.
As of April 1994, over 10, 000 current and prospective leaders in the old Soviet empire have successfully completed the Institute's seminars.
They occupy an important position in Indian society as the guardians of democracy and are associated with independence from the old British Empire.
Of more longer-run concern would be a rejection of particpation in a European market economy by the now-independent states of the old Soviet empire.
Second, it is now clear from archival material emerging from the old Soviet empire that the quote was wrong even if it had applied only to the immediate post-war era.
The Clinton Administration esentially capitulated to Russia's demands today, proposing instead of membership for newly democratic nations of the old Soviet empire an ambiguous "limited partnership" with NATO for virtually any country who wants one -- including Russia.
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Trieste sees itself as a link between Italy and the old Austro-Hungarian empire reinvented.
Now the 44-year-old has received the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the New Year Honours list.
The connections are not to the old Mother Country of the empire.
Erdogan Toprak, deputy chairman of the opposition Republican People's Party, has said the prime minister "would like to bring the sultan back" - a reference to the old days of the Ottoman Empire before Turkey become a republic.
Patricia Campbell Hearst, a 20-year-old heiress to the Hearst newspaper empire, had been kidnapped by the SLA's urban guerrillas (to give them a polite description) two months earlier.
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.
One of the largest energy transactions in recent years, the deal is yet another expansion of an empire that the 66-year-old Kinder has built by cobbling together slow-growing, unsexy pipeline and storage assets dumped by the likes of Enron, Dynegy, Shell and ConocoPhillips, and focusing relentlessly on cutting costs.
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Cuzco and the old villages still retain traces of land occupation from the Inca Empire to preserve, in a more global manner, an archaeological heritage which has become susceptible to the effects of urbanization.
This, he said in his slightly old-fashioned way, was his duty as a servant of empire.
Sixty years later the 84-year-old stares straight into the camera with the look of a man whose empire is up for grabs.
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Juan-Miguel Villar Mir, an 82-year-old former finance minister of Spain, has quietly been building a global engineering and construction empire for decades.
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The photos spread faster, farther and wider than the British Empire during its heyday, leading to some pity for a 27-year-old who seems to have difficulty steering clear of social media scandals.
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Indeed, the division with the highest return on investment in the Kinder empire (26% in 2011) provides carbon dioxide for oil companies and itself to inject into old fields to goose out stubborn oil.
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