Sentence examples for been vanquished before when from inspiring English sources

The following morning in a campus classroom, Giles uses a series of overhead transparencies to explain to the others that The Gentlemen steal the townspeople's voices so no one can scream as they gather the hearts they need, and that folklore indicates that they have been vanquished before when a princess screamed: the only thing that will kill them is a live human voice.

Others, however, insist that Kim's regime must be vanquished before it acquires greater nuclear capabilities.

Then when he realizes that he has been vanquished, he quietly places his yarmulke on the scales (of injustice) -- and exits with dignity.

Others may have merely been vanquished by Preminger's implacable desire to receive the best treatment, even when he couldn't pay the bill.

The Dream Home, therefore, exists in an unspecified time when the challenges of fossil fuels and sprawl have been vanquished, although how exactly is never mentioned.

Remember the liberal triumphalism of the 1990s, when the west's old adversaries all seemed to have been vanquished?

The white whale has been vanquished.

And liberalism has apparently been vanquished.

The archrival Americans had been vanquished.

Unfortunately, it has been vanquished with a vengeance.

Before the hangovers from last weekend's 50th carnival in the capital had been vanquished, the attacks on the party's future had already begun.