empire builder

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empire builder

n (fam, pej) → accentratore/trice di potere (economico)

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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Often, organizations will permit or overlook an empire builder's encroachment because he presents his attempt at conquest as a faster way to meet an objective.

Your Organization's Empire Builders; Watch out for them: They're the managers who launch costly turf wars

The games are: Winemaker Extraordinaire HD, WordsWorth HD, Prison Mayhem HD and Empire Builder: Ancient Egypt HD.

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Using archaeological discoveries the author shows that Attila was an empire builder in his own right (even if his empire died with him) as well as a savage warrior.

Attila the Hun: Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire

Like America, he became something of an empire builder, and like the nation that repeatedly came to the rescue of Europe in the twentieth century, he was both generous and outspoken throughout his life.

The time to dream

Sargon, who conquered the city-states of southern Mesopotamia, is the first great empire builder of history.

Babylon: a time line

Modern trains with storybook names like the Empire Builder and the Coast Starlight--retrace the route of Lewis and Clark from the expedition's beginnings in St.

All aboard with Lewis and Clark: from the plains to the Pacific, retrace the incredible Journey of the Corps of Discovery by train while visiting parks that preserve the truly wild West

Hartley's father, born at the turn of the century, was, as the author writes, "a different kind of empire builder," one who believed in teaching indigenous peoples under colonial rule how to develop a degree of self-sufficiency.

Jungle book: the foreign correspondent as thrill-seeker

Last May, for example, Amtrak announced a similar offering aboard its daily Empire Builder service between Chicago and Seattle.

Back on track: a rail renaissance connects trains to natural destinations. (Going Green)

But when asked about the inevitable grumbling re: Krens the empire builder, the Guggenheim's newest curator offers preemptively, "It's a good empire."