empire builder

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empire builder

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

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The new Thruway Bus Connections with Amtrak and Badger Buses also provide additional connections from Madison to the Empire Builder in Milwaukee.

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In other cases, the empire builder is more subtle, taking over inch by inch.

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

While Winemaker Extraordinaire HD and Empire Builder HD are for Tycoon game lovers, WordsWorth HD and Prison Mayhem HD serve Word and Time Management game fans respectively.

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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

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.

HOME AND AWAY

As they say about the world's most publicised hot air balloonist and empire builder - if you give him an inch he'll take a Nile.

Pharaoh enough... it's pyramid selling

His other works include the high-society conversations The Dolly Dialogues (1894) and a series of problem novels, such as The God in the Car (1894), which was based on the career of Cecil Rhodes, the empire builder of British South Africa.