But the problem is not that Britain has lost its empire.

Yet they lost their empire for want of microchips, washing machines and pantyhose.

"They had lost their empire, which is something I think they're still recovering from."

But when we triumph, we ought to keep silence, under pain of losing our empire.

He was eventually defeated by Ghazni and lost his empire.

The world has changed since then, and Britain has lost its empire.

To lose their empire would be the worst possible humiliation".

He, however, lost his empire, creating a new subgenre: the fairy tale in exile.

Fimbria ruled the entire continent until it lost its empire in a civil war brought on by religious strife some four centuries earlier.

If he'd listened to her, he wouldn't have lost his empire.