Sentence examples for Much conquest from inspiring English sources

Constraints on their behavior do not come from within the repressed societies they rule, but from such calculations as how much conquest and carnage they can turn to advantage and get away with.

The Irish had always had contacts with the rest of the British Isles, and during the early 6th century they immigrated from the island of Ireland to form the kingdom of Dál Riata, although exactly how much conquest took place is a matter of dispute with historians.

So much for the conquest of space.

The collection of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts owes much less to conquest than that of most European museums.

In the period before the Norman Conquest, much regulation was formalized by the king's legislation in order to protect the individual.

After the wars of conquest, much of the native population fled to the south, leaving large areas of arable land unused.

The United States is an empire, assembled by conquest, much like any other, he argues, although Americans' distaste for acquiring overseas territories has, for the most part, prevented it from colonising other nations.

Human feelings about the other life forms we know well have shaped the ecosystem at least since the major domestications that followed the end of the last ice age – the process that the science writer Stephen Budiansky calls "the covenant of the wild", and considers as an inter-species deal as much as a conquest.