Imperialist Sentence Examples

Baccio Valori, a Medicean who had been in the imperialist camp, now took charge, and the city was occupied by foreign troops.

Presently his imperialist views cooled, and at the Restoration he became minister of state and a peer of France.

The imperialist army of Eugene and the allies under Marlborough (52,000 strong) encamped 5 m.

In 1619 it was captured by the imperialist general, Karl Bonaventura de Longueval, Graf von Buquoy, and suffered so severely that the citizens opened their gates to his opponent, Ernst von Mansfeld.

He was already taunted with being an Imperialist, but his independent attitude won public approval.

Shastri reported the conference in an article, Convert imperialist war into civil war.

He was an enthusiastic social reformer, and a passionate imperialist.

While he lived he did not seem at all cut out for that distinction even as an Imperialist.

The ' siege mentality ' provoked by imperialist aggression was a powerful factor giving rise to wrong policies.

Another point to note is the sinisterly continuing propaganda onslaught on Sudan to justify an imperialist blitzkrieg military intervention.

Notes [1] War industries committees were established in Russia in 1915 by the imperialist bourgeoisie.

In her introductory chapter, Bush sets the context for the emergence of female imperialist organizations in Edwardian Britain.

A puppet state was set up in the north to perpetuate British imperialist domination.

There can be no real self-determination under imperialist domination.

Session 5 Russian Revolutions 1905 & 1917 The Russian Revolution of 1905 was the first revolution of the imperialist epoch.

A phenomenon greatly exacerbated by the development of the imperialist stage of capitalism.

There was no lessening of his opposition to " class distinctions and imperialist exploitation, no defection to " the forces of reaction " .

But they, alas, have been deprived of pastures just as the imperialist fatherlands which cast them out were deprived of colonies.

It is imperative that we as youth take the forefront in the struggle against this imperialist war.

I think you are right about ' left ' advisers in the imperialist heartlands telling anti-imperialists how to conduct their struggles.

At the end of the hunger strikes, the IRA dismissed the SDLP as ' imperialist lickspittles ' .

Novara, Vercelli, Asti and Tortona swelled its ranks; only Pavia and Montferrat remained imperialist between.

He was, moreover, an Imperialist and a Colonial Federationist at a time when Liberalism was tied and bound to the Manchester traditions; and, to the consternation of, the official wire-pullers, he vigorously supported Disraeli's foreign policy, and in 1881 opposed the Gladstonian settlement with the Boers.

The theory was purely democratic, but was all ready to be transformed, by means of a series of fictions and implications, into an imperialist doctrine; and in like manner it contained a visionary plan of reformation which ended, not in the separation of the church from the state, but in the subjection of the church to the state.

In 1815 the marquis endeavoured to bring about another Vendean rising for the king, and was shot in a skirmish with the Imperialist forces at the Pont des Marthes on the 4th of June 1815.

Frederick at first greeted the elevation of a member of an imperialist family with joy; but it was soon clear that Innocent intended to carry on the traditions of his predecessors.

The king himself commanded the right wing, which had to wait until small bodies of infantry detached for the purpose had driven in the Imperialist skirmish line, and had then to cross a ditch leading the horses.

The church of Panagia Rheumatocratissa contains the graves, with long Latin inscriptions, of the Hungarians who were banished from their country in 1686 by the imperialist captors of Buda.

But to do so with their flank exposed to imperialist attack from the east, was a task involving grave risks and possible disaster.

William was a young man (he was twenty-one at the time of his father's death) of and Imperialist, whose united forces were far larger than his own.

In April he defeated Tilly at the crossing of the Lech, the imperialist general being mortally wounded during this fight, and then he took possession of Augsburg and of Munich.

The possibility was obvious of combating the radical and nationalist revolution by means of the army, with its spirit of comradeship in arms and its imperialist tradition.

During the years of Unionist ascendancy Mr Asquith divided his energies between his legal work and politics; but his adhesion to Lord Rosebery (q.v.) as a Liberal Imperialist at the time of the Boer War, while it strengthened his position in the eyes of the public, put him in some difficulty with his own party, led as it was by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who was identified with the "proBoer" policy.

In spite of his Imperialist views, however, he did much to smooth over the party difficulties, and when the tariff-reform movement began in 1903, he seized the opportunity for rallying the Liberals to the banner of freetrade and championing the "orthodox" English political economy, on which indeed he had been a lecturer in his younger days.

Though always known as one of the ablest men of the Liberal party and conspicuous during the Boer War of1899-1902as a Liberal Imperialist, the choice of Mr Haldane for the task of thinking out a new army organization on business lines had struck many people as curious.

Lord Rosebery maintained for the most part a sphinx-like seclusion, but in July 1901 he at last came forward strongly as the champion of the Liberal Imperialist section.

In January 1903 he addressed a Liberal meeting at Plymouth, and appeared to be attempting to concentrate Opposition criticism upon the points in the government policy which did not involve the Imperialist difference; and in discussing War Office reform he advocated the appointment of Lord Kitchener as secretary of state for war.

Speaking at Sheffield on the 13th of October he criticized the scheme in more detail, and, as an Imperialist, warned the country against it, emphasizing his own ideal of the future of the empire - "a strong mother with strong children, each working out his own political and fiscal salvation."

In 1706 he defeated the imperialist general Guido Stahremberg and penetrated to the walls of Vienna.

Pitt, the first real Imperialist in modern English history, was the directing mind in the expansion of his country, and with him the beginning of empire is rightly associated.

A large imperialist army, under the command of the duke of Bavaria, Tilly and Bouquoi, entered Bohemia in September 1620.

Of these one was an adherent of the nationalist, the other of the imperialist party.

In 1599, on the abdication of Sigismund Bfithory in Transylvania, Michael, in league with the imperialist forces, and in connivance with the Saxon burghers, attacked and of Tran- defeated his successor Andreas Bathory near Hermannstadt, and, seizing himself the reins of government, secured his proclamation as prince of Transylvania.

Michael's wife Florika and his son Nicholas were carried off into Tatar captivity, and erban or Sherban, of the Bassaraba family, was raised to the voivodeship of Walachia by imperialist influences, while Sigismund resumed the government of Transylvania.

Considered in the light of after events, this putting the necessity of food-taxes in the forefront was decidedly injudicious; but imperialist conviction and enthusiasm were more conspicuous than electioneering_ tact in the launching of Mr Chamberlain's new scheme.

The Chinese authorities endeavoured to arrest him, but the imperialist troops were defeated.

Following the imperialist onslaught in Iraq, Cuba is under threat of invasion by the US.

Many think that imperialist pacifism is an instrument of peace.

I am an imperialist and not a Little Englander because I am a British race patriot.

The workers' and people's movements must aim their struggles against such imperialist retrogression.

Socialist Party does support the right of armed self-defense and resistance to imperialist occupation.

The Bolshevik slogan for the turning of the imperialist war into a civil war was well known.

I do not support the work of imperialist stooges.

They see every foul device of imperialist tyranny employed against them with at any rate the passive acquiescence of the British working class.

Shastri reported the conference in an article, " Convert imperialist war into civil war.

Without intervening personally in French politics, he took a keen interest in the questions of administration and social reorganization arising from the fall of the imperialist regime and the disasters of the war.

And it was directly challenged by the representatives of Mr Chamberlain's school of Imperialist thought (see Chamberlain, Joseph).

His cosmopolitanism - which makes him in the modern Imperialist's eyes a "Little Englander" of the straitest sect - led him to deplore any survival of the colonial system and to hail the removal of ties which bound the mother country to remote dependencies; but it was, in its day, a generous and sincere reaction against popular sentiment, and Cobden was at all events an outspoken advocate of an irresistible British navy.

He at once excommunicated Henry and the antipope and, under Norman protection, was able to return to Rome in July; but the disturbances of the imperialist party, especially of the Frangipani, who attacked the pope while celebrating mass in the church of St Prassede, compelled Gelasius to go once more into exile.

It also reflects imperialist rivalries in the Middle East.

Thus the first luxury to be discarded in this imperialist war is sham capitalist democracy.

In Germany Torstensson was sweeping the imperialist forces before him through Silesia and Moravia.

After the death of Gustavus Adolphus at the battle of Liitzen, not far from Leipzig, in 1632, the elector, who was at heart an imperialist, detached himself from the Swedish alliance, and in 1635 concluded the peace of Prague with the emperor.

In the secular contest, Germany and the imperialist pretensions of its leaders were invariably the principal obstacle.

On the r 2th of June, addressing the Liberal League, he admitted that as a lifelong Imperialist it was with pain and grief that he could not support Mr Chamberlain's scheme, but the empire had been built upon free trade, and he only saw danger to the empire in these new proposals.

The town submitted on the following day and the whole country was quickly subdued by the Imperialist armies.

De Patriot afterwards became imperialist, but Ons Land, another Bond organ, continued in much the same strain.

His tutor was Philippe Le Bas, son of the well-known member of the Convention and follower of Robespierre, an able man, imbued with the ideas of the Revolution, while Vieillard, who instructed him in the rudiments, was a democratic imperialist also inspired with the ideal of nationalism.

For some years a constant struggle was maintained between the Chinese imperialist troops and the Taipings, with varying success on both sides.

Gordon then marched through the country, seizing town after town from the rebels until at length the great city of Suchow was invested by his army and a body of Chinese imperialist troops.

During the progress of the Boer War from 1899 to 1902, Mr Chamberlain, as the statesman who had represented the cabinet in the negotiations which led to it, remained the object of constant attacks from his Radical opponents - the "little Englanders" and "Pro-Boers," as he called them - and he was supported by the Imperialist and Unionist party with at least equal ardour.

In general European politics Baron Marschall had taken during his Foreign Secretaryship a strongly imperialist attitude.

In June the Tien Wang, seeing his cause was hopeless, committed suicide, and the capture of Nanking by the imperialist troops shortly afterwards brought the Taiping revolt to a conclusion.

Although a Protestant he was under the influence of Adam, count of Schwarzenberg, who was a Roman Catholic of imperialist sympathies.