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The Indian rhetoric of "secular nationalism" has acted as a liberal cover in international fora for a swelling Hindu imperium, which was territorially achieved in 1947; Indian elite has gratefully allowed the use, and continuous manufacture, of a Hindu civilizational self-identity to justify the empire.— Countercurrents.org
"Empire" derives from Latin imperium, which means simply "power."— Foreign Policy In Focus
No other single nation has as yet amassed the imperium (mentioned by Ian Williams) to rival that of the United States.— Foreign Policy In Focus
Minnesota Monster Mash: Police-State Zombies in a Dead Republic Britain is a small and withered appendage of the American imperium, but it still serves as a mineshaft canary and microcosm of the fetid atmosphere of the Potomac Empire, as John Pilger demonstrates in an excellent article at Antiwar. com.— Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque
Thus the auspicia and the imperium were indissolubly connected; as Dr. Greenidge says,[626] "they are the divine and human side of the same power," and may be found together in a thousand passages in Roman literature and inscriptions.— The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus

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