These essays supported colonial interests and imperial designs involving communication with the other colonies and Britain.
As for western imperial designs, you're deluding yourself.
Mussolini had imperial designs on Tunisia, and had some support in that country.
Shikai was forced to back down from his imperial designs.
That was back in the days when we worried about France's imperial designs rather than the other way around.
Each gate is guarded by a company of fifty warriors, their tunics bearing the imperial design in a large circle over the left breast.
The design of the modern Order of St. Andrew has changed very little from the imperial design.
A new philosophy of respect for the world's variety needs to replace the imperial designs that lasted for more than 2,000 years.
The workers have nothing to gain and everything to lose in the EU' s "new" imperial designs.
CBS contends it has no imperial designs on the plaza.