Oh, Ellen, how can you, when it concerns the whole country? What concerns the whole country?

I saw your father in the old Empire in 1909.

And the McKittrick Hotel is the old Valdes home.

Sobule The Old Testament God can be so petty. Sweeney Don't get me started on that.

Mary for God's sake don't dig up what's long forgotten.

Well for God's sake don't drag up that ancient history!

Empires can impose order and stability for a long time but imperialists rather like many Americans today become tired, and their subjects grow restless. The imperial order becomes brittle, and, as Kagan rightly notes, when the old order finally breaks down, mayhem often follows.

They beat preexisting Oriental empires like the Mughals and the Ottomans.

The Office of Internal Oversight Services issued 719 recommendations at the mission level during the 2004 05 financial year, compared to 100 recommendations during 2003 04.

The remaining two missions delivering rations were preparing their standard operating procedures with the target of submitting them to Headquarters by December 2005.

The audit plans of the Board and of the resident auditors are discussed to avoid duplication of efforts and to ensure the effective and efficient deployment of audit resources.

Unfortunately, the emperor is devoted to his empire.

America is an empire.

Embracing the Empire

The Empire of Human Rights

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Empire!

You have threatened the empire!

Father of his Country!

You know that.

The Board recommends that the Office of Internal Oversight Services refine its basis for allocating resources for the audit of peacekeeping missions.

Not even Mao Zedong, with the fury unleashed during China s Cultural Revolution, could make the Four Olds (old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas) vanish. And whether one uses Yangon or Rangoon to identify Myanmar Burma s capital, the place still remains what the British travel writer Norman Lewis described as imperial and rectilinear built by a people who refused compromise with the East.

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The Accidental Empire

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How does an empire die?

The empire is yours, Livius.

The High Commissioner urges the Government to establish a system of official visitors of prisons for effective independent monitoring of conditions of detention. The High Commissioner also recommends the establishment of an external oversight mechanism to deal with complaints about human rights abuses in detention.

God bless the Republic of Nauru and God bless the United Nations and the peoples of the world.

Timor Leste has benefited greatly from the support of the United Nations, most particularly through the United Nations peacekeeping operations, UNTAET (United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor) and UNMISET (United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor).

America Confronts Old and New Europe

From San Francisco to the South China Sea

They are the tears of Old Russia.

God bless America.

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Your empire has died!

Britannia

Britannia rules the

Experts have always underestimated the expansionary character of American foreign policy, because they think of expansion in old world terms conquest, imperialism, and colonialism. The US does not seek to create an empire in the old sense America pursues an imperialism of the values that it holds dear.

Similarly, China is staking its claim to the South China Sea in full violation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the basis of vague histories of bygone empires. Both countries are now behaving as if power is a zero sum game dictated by the old rules of realpolitik.

Holy, holy, holy.

I want to say that I think the powers that be know that empire building is actually that feelings get in the way of empire building.

San Francisco New York San Francisco

'Gallia 'is an old name for France