Sentence examples for aggressive conquest from inspiring English sources

Turkey sent in troops – to protect Turkish Cypriots, they said; to mount an aggressive conquest, Greek Cypriots said.

The substantial Northwest African ancestry found for Canary Islanders supports that, despite the aggressive conquest by the Spanish in the XV century and the subsequent immigration, genetic footprints of the first settlers of the Canary Islands persist in the current inhabitants.

In spite of the aggressive conquest and subsequent massive European immigration and North and sub-Saharan African slave importation to the islands, historians estimated that approximately two-thirds of the Canary population were Africans and aborigines at the end of the 16th century [ 14].

He has been frozen for 100 years, missing out on a century-long global war spawned by the Fire Nation's aggressive conquests.

Whereas Bayezid had been put on the throne by the Janissaries despite his pacific nature and carried out military activities with reluctance, Selim I (ruled 1512 20) shared their desire to return to Mehmed II's aggressive policy of conquest.

This concerns not least the aggressive policy of conquest and domination pursued by Florence that was as much or more the cause of the Milanese wars as was Visconti expansionism.

Germany, suffering from something of a "younger child" complex in the family of European empires, saw an opportunity to reconfigure the balance of power in their favour via an aggressive war of conquest.

Mehmed always supported more aggressive strategies of conquest which his father had continually rejected.

His reign was marked by aggressive military campaigns and conquest, particularly in the Norse-dominated parts of the British Isles, and he extended his rule to the Kingdom of the Isles and Dublin.

Republicans risk losing potential conquests if they get too aggressive and public.

In an interview in September with the trade publication Advertising Age, Mr. Lindner suggested that it might not carry the Conquest moniker, which was deemed too aggressive.