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empire-building

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empire-building [ˈempaɪəˌbɪldɪŋ] N (fig) → construcción f de imperios
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But perhaps you should start small, take all that empire-building step by step.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK.. LADY GAGA by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
With the backing of the Democratic Congress, the Republican White House's aggressive pursuit of a military approach to empire-building has led to a world-wide decline of US influence, the realignment of former client rulers toward imperial adversaries, the emergence of competing hegemons and loss of crucial sources of strategic raw materials.
Retreating Empire and Bellicose Bluster by The Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace, WA)
This is 2007 for goodness sake, an age when most European small nations have achieved their freedom, a modern age when all these nations are proudly waving their beloved flags, so why indeed do some of us even contemplate squeezing the Welsh Dragon on that dinosaur called the Union Jack, a blood-soaked empire-building banner which reeks of occupation not amalgamation.
Letter: No, don't cross it by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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