1.   Both long predate World War II, and for all but a handful of right-wingers, their revival represents a return to tradition, not to imperial ambitions.

2.   He even grows edgy at the suggestion that as director of the Tate Gallery of London, he is displaying inordinate imperial ambitions.

3.   Hopkirk, in other words, is an old-fashioned man, stirred by the confrontation of Eastern exoticism with Western imperial ambition.

4.   On Sunday, the best-known NTV commentator, Yevgeny Kiselyov, delivered a broadside against Putin, accusing the president of harboring imperial ambitions.

5.   Recent Russian involvement in nearby republics, and its long-lasting imperial ambitions, gives neighbors pause about Russian primacy in regional peacekeeping.

6.   Should the USS Arizona Memorial apologize for our fleet having been an obstacle to Japanese imperial ambitions?

7.   Their political philosophy is laced with racism and imperial ambition.

8.   They came innocent of any imperial ambitions and they both nourished and were nourished by the local educational institutions they ran.

9.   Britain, which came to China at the height of its imperial ambition, has retired gracefully.

10.   It is a stance that alarms those in the West, including many American conservatives, who believe Russia harbors imperial ambitions.