empire-builder

According to legend, James Cameron was a truck driver when the first Star Wars movie broke out as a huge success and turned the slightly older, slightly craftier, and slightly more imaginative George Lucas into the cinematic empire-builder of our age.

Gregory Weinkauf: Avatar: Why Cameron's Flick Kinda Actually Sucks 2010

She's the richest woman in town, an empire-builder.

Lance Mannion: 2008

She's the richest woman in town, an empire-builder.

Can a bold-talking one-eyed fat man be a hero-king? 2008

Ahuizotl (ah-WEE-zoh-tuhl), an empire-builder who extended the Aztecs 'reach as far as Guatemala, was the last emperor to complete his rule before the Spanish Conquest.

Archive 2007-07-29 Bill Crider 2007

Mr. Putin went back to a familiar recipe: Russia, empire-builder and scourge of the West.

Why Nurture Russia's Illusions? 2009

Recently our www. opednews.com correspondent tracked down the ancient Persian conqueror and empire-builder, Cyrus the Great, who lives a quiet afterlife in the Hanging Gardens Retirement Home.

Interview with Cyrus the Great 2008

To build its empire -- yet not come off as empire-builder -- MTV is also acquiring homegrown businesses.

WORLD TOUR 2007

It was an appropriate topic, considering that she is on the way to becoming the leading female empire-builder in the history of American elections.

Hillary's Money Politics 2007

Or we can resist, protect our "interests" and become rightfully seen as a selfish empire-builder.

Sacred America 2006

Mr. Chandler also distinguished himself as an empire-builder, expanding the Times Mirror Company, the parent corporation of The Los Angeles Times, by purchasing Newsday, The Baltimore Sun, The Hartford Courant, several broadcast television and cable stations and two highly regarded book publishers, New American Library and Harry Abrams Publishing.

The Elegant Variation: TEV 2006