English-Swedish translations for British Empire

• Brittiska imperiet ett
  – Herr talman! En av de många gåvor som det brittiska imperiet gav världen var det världsomfattande avskaffandet av slaveriet.Mr President, one of the many gifts the British Empire gave to the world was the global abolition of slavery.
  Det är naturligtvis upp till dem att fatta sitt eget beslut, men detta är trots allt människor vars fäder slog tillbaka det brittiska imperiet.It is, of course, for them to take their own decision, but these are, after all, people whose fathers saw off the might of the British Empire.
  – Människohandeln, eller slaveriet som vi brukade säga, avskaffades av det brittiska imperiet med stöd av den brittiska flottan, men den är en tragisk verklighet i det nya Bryssel-imperiet.People trafficking, or slavery as we used to call it, stamped out by the British Empire with the force of the Royal Navy behind it, is now a sad fact of life under the new Brussels Empire.

Definition of British Empire

• The United Kingdom and its dependencies. It became the Commonwealth of Nations following the independence of most of its dependencies

Examples

• The British Empire was the largest empire in history at its climax, during the late 1800s/early 1900s.

Related words

• British
• Britishness
• Britisher
• Britishize
• anti-British
• Franco-British
• pro-British
• British Isles
• British Commonwealth of Nations
• British English