Sentence examples for and be conquered from inspiring English sources

As "The Internet: Behind the Web" explains, the Soviets' launching of the Sputnik satellite in 1957 brought about an epiphany among complacent Americans, who decided that it was time to get serious about science, lest they fall behind and be conquered by the Communists.

The city originated as the Roman Caesarobriga and was conquered by King Alfonso VI in 1082.

The Anti-Emmy award The stars of American film and TV came, saw – and were conquered.

The Songe, who conquered and were conquered by the Luba, created a sculptural style of intense dynamism and vitality.

Northern Nigeria did not escape the expansion of the British empire into Africa and was conquered in 1903.

Iklaina may have started small and been conquered and annexed by one of the expanding powers, like Pylos, in the same region.

Ancient Baden was occupied by Celts and then by Germanic peoples and was conquered by Rome in the 1st century ad.

The region was subject to Achaemenian Persia in the 6th and 5th centuries bce and was conquered by Alexander the Great in the 4th century bce.

"Aweys relied more on local resources and was conquered by al-Shabab, which had foreign links in terms of training and know-how," he says.

Zaculeu was the capital of the Postclassic Mam kingdom, and was conquered by the K'iche' Kingdom of Q'umarkaj.

It was ruled by the Wuffingas dynasty in the 7th and 8th centuries, but fell to Mercia in 794, and was conquered by the Danes in 869.