Some writers, such as Edward Said, use the term more broadly to describe any system of domination and subordination organized with an imperial center and a periphery.

Because Omicron was the planet farthest from the imperial center, the Navy had a base located there.

The day was already decided in favour of the French when their wings began to close inwards to cut off the retreat of the imperial centre.

They realized that the loss of power at the imperial centre would allow them to strengthen their position by negotiating with the imperial vassals.

Eventually, however, the imperial centre began to give way and the imperial troops began fleeing the field.

Luke Skywalker dwells, like Dorothy in Kansas, in a dusty hinterland far removed from the imperial center of things.

For all its grandeur the imperial center had an uneasy, makeshift look about it when I arrived.

From the shining streets of the imperial center came the sounds of warfare, louder and louder, closer and closer.

The most important colonial power, Spain, focused attention on its imperial centers in Mexico and Peru.

Aside from the superior military power of the imperial centers, the undeveloped world actually has superior bargaining leverage.