Sentence examples for Almost vanquished from inspiring English sources

3 February (Allen Lane) The Anatomy of a Moment by Javier Cercas Always a nimble dancer on the edge of history and fiction, the Spanish writer returns with a closely researched but always dramatic account of the failed coup in 1981 that almost vanquished his country's fragile post-Franco democracy.

Before conquering the vocal demands, Voigt was almost vanquished by the set at the moment of her first entrance.

We had even managed to almost vanquish malaria, which in the developing world continues to kill hundreds of thousands of children, and sicken tens of millions, every year.

The main building was drafty and unheated, and tuberculosis, which had almost been vanquished among the general population, still broke out occasionally.

Intersected by field drains and the few causeway roads that bisect the valley, the farmland was almost wholly vanquished by water.

Or it could be a hitting bonanza, with slugging Rangers like Josh Hamilton and Vladimir Guerrero and upstart Giants hitters like Cody Ross, who almost personally vanquished the vaunted Philadelphia starters in the National League Championship Series.

The result is that polio has been vanquished almost everywhere.

Related: Le Pen family feud is a battle for the soul of the Front National – and France In an interview with the centre-right Le Figaro newspaper on Monday, Le Pen, who had threatened to leave the political ring "only at the end of the bout, whether victor or vanquished", seemed almost conciliatory as he said he would withdraw his candidature to avoid further damage to the party.

Thoughts and emotions may come flooding in almost immediately to vanquish this sacred second of peace.

It is also engagingly written, not to mention fascinating throughout, and any initial misgivings I might have had about the viability of a popular, almost 400-page work about translation are completely vanquished.

So far, the discount carrier has vanquished most of them.