Sentence examples for Gain supremacy from inspiring English sources

When Zürich and Bern attempted to gain supremacy in 1656, the five Roman Catholic cantons waged and won the first war of Villmergen in Aargau.

Lil' Kim, hip-hop's queen bee, returns after a long hiatus to the same base she used to gain supremacy on "Hardcore," her popular debut: the bedroom.

Both camps are spending billions to build new factory lines, hire engineers and develop more powerful chips in a bid to gain supremacy.

Analysts of the military situation say that if General Aoun captures Ain al Rummaneh, he will gain supremacy in all the rest of East Beirut, and will then be ready to strike positions of Mr. Geagea's militia in the Kesrouan district northeast of the capital.

Post-workout, the watch face will gain supremacy as normal, unless a user has specified that the watch resume to the last open app, as they can do currently.

Restrictions on vending increased at about the time the car began to gain supremacy in Los Angeles life.

Within a decade he gained supremacy over most of Iran as a ruler his followers regarded as divinely entitled to sovereignty.

In 1978 the PDPA staged a successful coup, but the People's ("Khalq") faction soon gained supremacy over the Banner faction.

He took part, on February 2 3 , 1509 in the great Battle of Diu, in which the Portuguese defeated a Muslim fleet and thereby gained supremacy over most of the Indian Ocean.

The church clung to its independence and refused to submit to the rules and customs of the Roman Catholic Church until the 12th century, when the archbishop of Canterbury gained supremacy over the Welsh Christians.

ʿAlī Mardān Khan, however, broke the compact and was killed by Karīm Khan, who gained supremacy over central and southern Iran and reigned as regent or deputy (vakīl) on behalf of the powerless Ṣafavid prince, never arrogating to himself the title of shah.