One such empire rose to challenge even the mighty Rome.

No, he said, empires have risen and fallen throughout history.

Popular since the late 18th century, the waltz has seen empires rise and fall.

I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee.

No one can know whether empires will rise again, in part because smaller nations may find it useful to ally themselves with larger ones.

Empires rose and fell during a very long pause.

They watched empires rise and fall, wars depopulate whole nations.

A new Empire has risen and is occupied in establishing control over the remnants of its predecessor, by force if needed.

With this weapon, he assured us, the empire would rise again literally out of our enemies' ashes.

Second, after he was removed from his post, he angrily stated that the empire rose only because of him.