Translation of "Riesenreich" in English

The Persian I empire in the east is ripe for collapse.

A similar mental contagion had already destroyed a mighty empire.

And lead nacher as against Russia, a vast empire, war.

All over this huge country there is a great backlog demand for modern, ecologically designed residential and commercial buildings.

The economic development of both countries now depends significantly on demand from the giant nation.

For goodness' sake, do not let this huge country, the 'emerald belt' as we call it in Dutch, become just a patch of rust in the Pacific.

I should also like to mention the increasing concern we have in this Parliament for Tibet and for other regions in that giant country which are asking for a certain level of autonomy and which want to be able to go their own way, culturally speaking.

Beginning with the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947, the remainder of the British Empire was almost completely dismantled.

Since the beginning of the 18th century the tsars – specifically Peter the Great, who founded the new capital St Petersburg in 1703, and Catherine II, who reigned from 1762 to 1793 – expanded their empire through continual conquests until Russia was by far the world's largest state in terms of territory.

Qin and the other six kingdoms will become one great empire.

There is no doubt that somewhere in that vast country, with the money and the wherewithal being applied, world-class wines will emerge.

Without modern ski jumping facilities international competitions in the giant state will still not be possible in the future and preparations for the Winter Games 2014 at Sochi are not optimal.

The tidal wave is now surging from Petersburg, from the north, down over the huge empire, and is engulfing, one after another, all the great industrial cities of Russia.

However, in the period of annexation of Ukrainian territories and the destabilising effect of Russia’s actions in Eastern Ukraine, ultimately to his benefit, he is open to the accusation of seeking a “vast empire à la Soviet Union”.

Tell-tale signs of the past and gross excesses of Russian cutthroat capitalism have created a bizarre microcosm that does not have a parallel elsewhere in this giant empire.

But here were, instead of a Cato and Scipio, the "Founders of an Empire" Napoleon I, Wilhelm II and Hitler who robbed with their claim of power the energy to maintain this world wide empire from the British State .

In 2008, China invested almost $ 35 billion in alternative energy sources, demonstrating that it has understood the challenges of the future – even if implementation in this huge country is not always successful yet.

This position was held by Russia during the last 231 years, during the various political systems in this vast empire, which is in 2014 ruled by Vladimir Putin.

Their series of documentary photos shows both the winners and losers emerging from the overwhelming changes in the enormous country: the farmer who lives just a couple of kilometers away from the Chinese space center but still plows his small farm with a team of water buffalos; the filthy-rich owner of a yacht club, posing casually in front of his purple Lamborghini; or the little girl from the traveling circus, standing on the table that serves as her stage.

Throughout the whole of the spring of 1905 and into the middle of the summer there fermented throughout the whole of the immense empire an uninterrupted economic strike of almost the entire proletariat against capital – a struggle which caught, on the one hand, all the petty bourgeois and liberal professions, commercial employees, technicians, actors and members of artistic professions – and on the other hand, penetrated to the domestic servants, the minor police officials and even to the stratum of the lumpenproletariat, and simultaneously surged from the towns to the country districts and even knocked at the iron gates of the military barracks.

The next ten or twenty years are likely to reveal whether China in particular is capable of stabilising its economic dynamism with processes of political liberalisation or whether that giant nation will slide into societal stagnation and instability.

For a number of years now, the Chinese print industry has been able to look forward to the highly popular and esteemed road show with which KBA head of marketing Jürgen Veil and further guest speakers tour the country each October.

The number of athletes in China are growing; the giant empire is becoming the largest growth market for the sports industry.

It flows eastwards from Henan province dividing the huge country into a northern and southern half.