1.   These disciplines were to prove an index of the strength of imperial rule.

2.   But any accountability is a welcome change from the imperial rule of Suharto.

3.   But the people of the region had a long history of bucking Chinese imperial rule.

4.   He was emperor-like in a century in which the Chinese overthrew their last emperor after three millenniums of imperial rule.

5.   It is not only the heavy hand of imperial rule that can impose ethnic cooperation.

6.   Some fear tensions may rise as Ukraine edges closer to the West, continuing its break from seven decades of dominance by Moscow and centuries under Russian imperial rule.

7.   Amid all the confusion and uncertainty of the new Russia, many now yearn for the idealised glory of Imperial rule.

8.   But imperial rules forbid women from assuming the Chrysanthemum Throne, so the new princess, who will be named next week, is not in line.

9.   Under imperial rule, the island was considered a swampy backwater used to dump political exiles.

10.   There the monarch will, for the first time in British history, apologise for a misdeed resulting from imperial rule -- the confiscation of native lands.