Sentence examples for armed conquest from inspiring English sources

Following his successful but bloody conquest of the Kalinga country on the east coast, Ashoka renounced armed conquest and adopted a policy that he called "conquest by dharma" (i.e., by principles of right life).

Most wealth in history has been acquired either by armed conquest of the land, or by political insider dealing, such as the great US railroad land giveaways of the mid 19th century.

The sufferings that the war inflicted on the defeated people moved him to such remorse that he renounced armed conquests.

Later generations of Sultan Sulaiman's family were closely connected with Siamese royalty: two of Sulaiman's descendants commanded armed forces led by Prince Surasi in the 1786 conquest of Pattani; Princess Sri Sulalai, a consort of King Rama II and mother of King Rama III, was also descended from Sultan Sulaiman.

Partly as a result, several Persian Gulf powers and Turkey have begun arming the Army of Conquest, an umbrella opposition group that reportedly includes an Al Qaeda affiliate and other Islamist groups as well as "moderate" fighters.

This process began in the 12th century with the Mongol conquest of China and invasions of Europe, and it quickened and assumed a more pronounced European flavour in the 15th and 16th centuries with the development of oceangoing ships armed with gunpowder weapons.

Either the dream of men who want to sleep with her or have her as their monument of conquest arm candy, or the dream of all the girls and women aspiring for this version of beauty and the attention it yields.

He predicted that this force could "penetrate through the heart of the South, and make conquests, with the banner of Emancipation unfurled, proclaiming freedom as they go, sustaining and protecting it by arming the emancipated, taking them as fresh troops, and leaving a few veterans among the new freedmen, when occasion requires".

Recently, the center-left Danish newspaper Politiken ran an article which focused on how the U.S. has conjured up threats of Russian world conquest as a means to boost arms sales to its NATO "allies" in central and eastern Europe.

Mr. Serhant shaves his arms in the shower and brags about a recent conquest to his unimpressed female assistant.

In the past few months Mr Masoud's forces, confined to a pocket of territory in the north-east of Afghanistan, have been short of money and arms, facing Taliban fighters convinced they could complete their conquest of the country.