1.   For some, padding the empty nest, like empire building, starts modestly enough and then expands uncontrollably.

2.   He had passed through years before and admired the vastness and perhaps, the possibilities for empire building.

3.   Josephson downplays concerns that he is empire building.

4.   NBC sees itself as empire building, moving shows from its Thursday stronghold to help build other nights.

5.   Network building is the empire building of the digital age.

6.   NHTSA officials saw a grand opening for empire building.

7.   Some, including those in the U.S. Justice Department, might argue that if any one computer company knows everything about empire building, it is Microsoft.

8.   State boards of education, seldom revered as daring classroom innovators, are frequently suspected of being little more than practitioners of bureaucratic empire building.

9.   The crushing price of all this empire building could leave creativity in the dust.

10.   The effects of corporate empire building is shaking the entire music industry as entertainment conglomerates have swallowed the last of the big independent labels.