| Some of the matters involved in States wishing to retain controls go beyond the simple issues of ministerial empires. |
| Along it, empires, kingdoms, and colonial realms have been plunged into war and bloodshed. |
| Great empires, kingdoms and principalities have come and gone, but the Papacy endures. |
| The modern consensus view is to judge the legacies of empire, especially of the modern European empires, very harshly. |
| The Eclogues came to signify Arcady as a place where poetry and love meet with or avoid the worlds of politics, cities, and empires. |
| Amid the ruin of the City of Dreams, Mehmed imbibed a valuable lesson about the twilight of nations, empires and kingdoms. |
