empire-building n.
扩张疆域,领土扩张
- People who've got to the top by empire-building are unlikely to do away with it, especially when they still need their empires to sustain them. But if the lack of action disappointed Parkinson, it wouldn't have surprised him.
- Or a common-sense plea for the constructive benefits of using power wisely, on the view that 'power is not about empire-building and personal aggrandisement.
- Mergers can be motivated by mere 'empire-building' on the part of company managers. Indeed, there is a more fundamental point.
- Economists say the industries that planners are urging the government to privatize are where Thailand's powerful state labor unions are most deeply entrenched and where empire-building government bureaucrats have constructed their strongest domains.
- Much will depend on whether the UK company will be independently run, rather than subject to fresh empire-building by the old management.
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