1.   That had been their perfect existence before the empire builders had come in their tall ships.

2.   Both are empire builders.

3.   But it is likely they did so more as Pilgrim Fathers than as Spanish conquistadors, more as colonizers than as empire builders.

4.   But until now it wielded that power unobtrusively, more as a broker and deal maker than as an empire builder.

5.   Cousins, like Croker, is a real estate empire builder.

6.   Gentle in mien, ernest in demeanor, he is, like the famously nerdy Gates, an unlikely seeming empire builder.

7.   He was an empire builder.

8.   Moreover, they note, Murdoch has always been an empire builder.

9.   No longer the great empire builders, the English are left to define themselves in new ways.