Sentence examples for attempts to conquer from inspiring English sources

Nurses recognize that many of the physician's attempts to conquer death do not work.

Every clash between Turkey and Austria is compared to the Ottoman attempts to conquer Vienna in 1683.

Once capital of the Itzá Maya, who successfully resisted Spanish attempts to conquer them until 1697, Flores is a major trade centre for the surrounding region.

Even the Mongols, sweeping in off the northern plains, took to the sea in their attempts to conquer Java and Japan.

The war hangs over this group of carefree miseries, silently telling them that their experimentation and even their attempts to conquer nature are fatuous.

The work, "The Capture of Shamil" from 1886, depicts the legendary Chechen leader being taken prisoner during Russia's early attempts to conquer the Caucasus.

In 1882, three eminent Victorians attempted to conquer America.

Cesare was attempting to conquer the whole of the Romagna, which stretched from Bologna to Ancona.

Harald was killed during a vain attempt to conquer England in 1066.

The new cultural centre, Väven, is, I suppose, an attempt to conquer that sense of inferiority.

His successor, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, nearly destroyed Korea in his monomaniacal attempt to conquer China.