21.   In the region formerly ruled by Moscow, the most obvious exception remains the former imperial power itself.

22.   Kipling wrote the poem at the height of British imperial power, Patten noted.

23.   The Clinton administration has justified the assistance by asserting that it would be difficult for Russia to become an imperial power again without Ukraine falling back into its clutches.

24.   The dragon, a frequent subject in Chinese painting, symbolizes both imperial power and a force of nature.

25.   The crisis is a long-term relic of the collapse of British imperial power in the region more than a half-century ago.

26.   The idea of a disenfranchised Other as a victim of imperial power has become common in discussions of multiculturalism, domestic policy and international affairs.

27.   The legitimating rationale of the new Russian state was on display in evocations of imperial Russian power and appeals to national pride.

28.   The Islamic world struggled to meet this challenge and failed, large parts of it eventually falling under direct control by European imperial powers.

29.   The rise and fall of a former imperial power.

30.   But a waning imperial power has little leverage over a rising China.