The constitution advanced the imperial pretensions in the city of Rome, but also established a system to check the power of the nobles.

A detailed recounting of the omens and consultations with oracles follows which Suetonius suggests furthered Vespasian's imperial pretensions.

He was mocking the US and all of its imperial pretensions".

In addition to this, Escobar argues that Truman's discursive construction was infused with the imperatives of American social reproduction and imperial pretensions.

This was due not merely to the natural consequence of the hegemony of Moscow over the other Russian lands, but to new imperial pretensions.

The Milanese citizenry strongly opposed the imperial pretensions of and agitated for Conrad the Emperor's son as their own king.

CITIES with imperial pretensions often claim to have been built, like Rome, on seven hills.

It has cast aside the country's communist experiment as an unworkable utopia and begun glorifying Soviet Russia's imperial pretensions.

Mao, in his imperial pretensions and his radicalism, was not unlike Christ's "younger Chinese brother."

Because of this exclusivity, imperial pretensions were self-limited.