Imperial overreach, political polarization, and a costly financial crisis are weighing on the economy.

George W. Bush committed the cardinal sin of all fallen empires that of overreach.

The EU would fall victim to what the historian Paul Kennedy calls imperial overreach.

There have been allegations of judicial overreach, since the courts are not supposed to don the role of the legislature

PARIS The demise of the Roman Empire resulted from a combination of strategic overreach and excessive delegation of security responsibilities to newcomers.

Military overreach has predictably led to nervousness about using military power, and others knowledge of this threatens to weaken America s security as well.

Americans have long been skeptical of government, with a tradition of resistance to perceived government overreach that extends back to their country s founding years.

Likewise, the current turmoil in Turkey is, at least in part, a consequence of neo Ottoman overreach by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan s government.

For two decades, Myanmar behaved likewise, until Chinese overreach, particularly the now abandoned Myitsone dam project, revealed in full the subservient relationship that China envisioned.

Imperial overreach, political polarization, and a costly financial crisis are weighing on the economy. Some pundits now worry that America is about to succumb to the British disease.

The US, for its part, while justified in joining the ASEAN claimants in pushing back against Chinese overreach in 2010 2011, must be careful about escalating its rhetoric.

( Remember also ) Qarun , Pharaoh , and Haman there came to them Moses with Clear Signs , but they behaved with insolence on the earth yet they could not overreach ( Us ) .

( Remember also ) Qarun , Pharaoh , and Haman there came to them Moses with Clear Signs , but they behaved with insolence on the earth yet they could not overreach ( Us ) .

Following the NATO led intervention in Libya in 2011, which the Kremlin regarded as another example of Western overreach, Russia has been more aggressive in asserting itself internationally, mainly in opposition to the US.

The cause was not an attempt by the global South to revive outdated notions of unlimited sovereignty rather, it was a reaction to the perceived overreach of the NATO led military intervention in Libya in 2011.

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

The danger is that overreach will lead civil society and voters in democratic developing countries to react against self serving displays of hegemonic might by jettisoning free trade itself, on the assumption that such openness is little more than neo colonialism.

He coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

They're choreographing themselves.

They will choose themselves.

They are themselves arbitrary.

They'd worn themselves out, beating themselves against the window, and, well, they were easy to capture.

Obey those who ask no reward of you ( for themselves ) , and who have themselves received Guidance .

Asians do not perceive themselves as Asians in the way that most Europeans view themselves as Europeans.

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

They showed up for themselves.

Have committed themselves as follows

Help the Poor Help Themselves

People unburdened themselves to strangers.

Will Europe s Sinners Save Themselves?

The planets withdrawing into themselves ,

And who quickly present themselves .

Moving swiftly and hiding themselves ,

and the sorcerers prostrated themselves ,

All the angels prostrated themselves ,

threw themselves down in prostration

And the sorcerers prostrated themselves

and the sorcerers prostrated themselves ,

All the angels prostrated themselves ,

threw themselves down in prostration

And the sorcerers prostrated themselves

The facts speak for themselves.

The statistics speak for themselves.