Sentence examples for and the conquest of from inspiring English sources

At least since the Crusades and the conquest of the Americas, political theorists have struggled with the difficulty of reconciling ideas about justice and natural law with the practice of European sovereignty over non-Western peoples.

For anyone who might doubt the educational worth of discussing Columbus and the conquest of the Americas in such potentially overly familiar terms would be well advised to recall the long literary and historical traditions in both Eastern and Western cultures that also have much to say about bodily functions.

All movements have their unsung heroes, and the conquest of coast is no exception.

He surrendered, and the conquest of Canada began to recede as a possibility.

(Tom Shachtman tells the story in his 1999 book "Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold").

SPLENDID SOLUTION: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio, by Jeffrey Kluger.

Units of the Eighth Army and X Corps spread out as they attempted to reach the Yalu and complete the conquest of North Korea as quickly as possible.

His son, Saud bin Abd al Aziz, succeeded him and continued the conquest of Arabia.

Edward was crowned king of England in 1272, and completed the conquest of Wales.

His son K'iq'ab continued where his father had left off and completed the conquest of the people.

Closely akin to these languages was Arabic, which, with the advent of Islam and the conquests of the 7th century, was carried as far as Spain and Central Asia.