12 sentences with 'imperial'

Example sentences and phrases with the word imperial and other words derived from it.

« Cabbage is one of the best ways to prevent cancer, already in imperial Rome it was revered for this virtue. »
« The Peloponnesian War ultimately curbed Athens' imperial ambitions and caused the Greeks to broaden their outlook towards non-Greeks; its effects were as much cultural as political. »
« Roman terms for ruling would last until the 20th century CE: the imperial titles of the rulers of both Russia and Germany - "tsar" and "kaiser", respectively - meant "Caesar". »
« Claudius restored the imperial treasury, depleted by Tiberius and Caligula, and maintained the Roman frontiers. »
« It became clear during his reign that the emperor's authority was virtually unlimited, as both emperors issued imperial proclamations known as "rescripts" while outside Rome that carried the force of law. »
« The problem was that the whole Roman imperial system depended on the direct and personal decision of the emperor himself. »
« Needless to say, the problem was compounded when the Roman Empire found itself divided between rival pretenders to the throne - for a few years towards the end of the crisis period the empire proper was divided into three rival "empires" under rival imperial pretenders. »
« When Christianity went from being an illegal cult to the official religion of the empire, the division of imperial territory into dioceses, overseen by vicars, would be adopted by the Catholic Church. This practice persists to this day in the administration of the Church. »
« The east had long been the richest part of the empire, and because of its efficient bureaucracy and tax collection systems, much more wealth flowed into the imperial coffers in the east than in the west. »
« Each year, the imperial government in Constantinople brought in about 270,000 pounds of gold in tax revenues, compared to about 20,000 in the west. This made possible the creation of better-equipped, better-trained and better-supplied armies in the east. »
« Young men still joined the army, but the system could function without a significant flow of money from the imperial treasury in Constantinople. »
« Around 400 AD, the Romans left Britain. Their legions were needed to help defend the Roman heartland and Britain had always been an imperial frontier, with too few Romans to fully settle and 'civilise' it outside southern England. »
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