Or perhaps, as one Haaretz columnist, Aluf Benn, noted, the parallel is that Churchill brought America into the war, but lost the empire.
Putin has worked hard these past four years to recapture positions that Russia lost when the Soviet empire disintegrated.
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Thanks to the preservation of these works by Arab scholars when they had been lost in the West after the collapse of the Roman Empire, Medieval scholars did not just study these texts and the works of the Arabs who added to them, but used them to make discoveries in their own right.
The fallout of empire may include the fraying of the union (because the lost colonial opportunities bound Scotland in).
But take the Empire State Building, which consistently lost money for its owners every year of its first two decades of existence.
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Kasdan has a long history with Lucasfilm, as screenwriter on The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Return of the Jedi.
The empire ended up splintering, and the Hapsburgs lost their throne.
He lost vast parts of his real estate empire along the way.
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It had lost most of its American empire to independence movements early in the 19th century.
Exactly a year later, Sean Quinn Sr lost control of his entire business empire when it passed into the hands of the IBRC.
Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and Raiders of the Lost Ark, is on board to write an entry in the new Star Wars trilogy, and may also serve as a producer as well.
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