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The second empire promised France stability and prosperity.
ECONOMIST: Liberty and democracy
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Gray was writing in the late 70s and early 1980s when the former second city of the empire was reaching its economic and social nadir.
BBC: How Glasgow conquered the art world
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Kasdan has a long association with Lucasfilm, having worked on the scripts of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi - the second and third instalments of the first Star Wars trilogy.
BBC: 'Stand-alone' Star Wars films planned
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Kasdan worked on the scripts of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi - the second and third instalments of the first Star Wars trilogy while Kinberg is best known for his work on X-Men: The Last Stand and Guy Ritchie's hit reboot of Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr.
BBC: New Star Wars film yearly from 2015
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He admits these "mad things" have been "irresponsible, foolish" given his importance to the Virgin empire, and to his second wife, Joan, and their two children.
FORBES: Red Baron
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The second consequence has been the fraying of an empire, and the sight of its emperor under siege.
NEWYORKER: Hack Work
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The new building's immediate neighbors are mansarded Second Empire survivals, a domed Ukrainian Orthodox church, and brash contemporary commercial interlopers a motley architectural crew.
WSJ: Cooper Union's New Building, at 41 Cooper Square | By WSJ Architecture Critic Ada Louis Huxtable
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And when the British were about to leave here after the Second World War, they gave the impression to these people who had been loyal to the British Empire that they could have independence for their separate areas.
CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Interview: Foreign Minister Win Aung - Page 1
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By 2003, as Railroad Minister, he commanded a bureaucratic empire second in scale and independence only to the military, with its own police force, courts, and judges and with billions of dollars at his disposal.
NEWYORKER: Boss Rail
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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.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy
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Is the Russian Federation basically a Russian empire, with a few non-Russians living in it as second-class citizens?
ECONOMIST: How free is free?