"You make it sound like the Hailshams have a commercial empire."

From here, and other ports, a great Mediterranean commercial empire was founded.

I'm king of the greatest industrial and commercial empire the universe has seen, and it's growing every hour.

With that option agreement he had the whole commercial empire in his fist - and all to himself.

Standing in that office, Quark recalled, had felt like being at the hub of a personal commercial empire.

Some of the religious orders built up substantial commercial empires.

The product became very popular and the brothers built their commercial empire from the ground up.

I think he was trying to give me a short course in how to run a commercial empire over the next hundred years or so.

Truesdale ruled them with money; he's got a nice little commercial empire going.

They have quite a commercial empire built around pilgrimage.