Rome was celebrating the 1000th anniversary of its founding, and imperial aspirations and ideas were naturally prominent.

Here was new blood, true, but it displayed imperial rather than democratic aspirations.

Lutyens laid out the central administrative area of the city as a testament to Britain's imperial aspirations.

The tablet is a glimpse into Chinese history, offering a lesson in both outsize imperial aspirations and supreme foolishness.

But Henry's sudden death put an end (at least temporarily) to such imperial aspirations and caused a power vacuum.

It would give Russia an additional incentive to abandon lingering imperial aspirations and focus on improvements at home.

After the unification, Mazzini spoke of the need of Italy as a Third Rome to have imperial aspirations.

The country's "own humane, pluralistic and tolerant ideals" will ultimately undermine its imperial aspirations.

The room is dominated, however, by a pool table of British imperial aspirations, and the immense metallic shade of the Ingo Maurer lamp suspended above.

A similar diplomatic scuffle (this time accompanied by war) ensued from the imperial aspirations of Simeon I of Bulgaria in the early 10th century.