"brutal conquest" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when describing a forceful and violent takeover or domination of a territory or a people. Example: The history books were filled with accounts of brutal conquests by powerful empires seeking to expand their territory and resources.
It was an easy, bold and brutal conquest that shamed the international community.
He correctly faults the legacy of the brutal conquest of an indigenous population many times larger than that north of Mexico.
Tryo Teatro Banda, a Chilean company of actor-musicians, returns with The Araucaniad (Barbican Centre, EC2, Tue to Thu), a witty and subversive take on a golden age epic about the brutal conquest of Chile.
The story of the opera, based on incidents from the life of Qin Shi Huang, the prince and warlord who unified China through the brutal conquest of other states and became the country's first emperor, is timely and psychologically complex.
In mid-April, I set out on a five-day, 2,000-mile 2,000-milethroadh Namibia witrip phothrougher, Mark SimoNamibiaetrace the steps of the German colonizers and to conjure up a vanished era of adventure and brutal conquest.
The Soviets seemed secure in their brutal conquest of Afghanistan, to which our lame response was to boycott the Moscow Olympic Games.
The school's most revered master, Qiu Chuji, met with Genghis Khan in 1222 and was successful in influencing the Khan towards exerting more restraint during his brutal conquests.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz Cheney appeared on Sean Hannity's show on Fox on Wednesday to discuss the Islamic State, focusing their statements on criticizing President Barack Obama's handling of the jihadists whose brutal conquests in Iraq and Syria have prompted the U.S. and allies to launch airstrikes against.
War and Peace Though death claimed Genghis Khan 775 years ago, his name remains linked to brutal military conquest.
At the same time, there is little question that foreign intervention in a country with a history of brutal foreign conquest, domination and subversion was successfully manipulated by Gaddafi to rally far more support to his side in his final months than would have been the case had he been faced with a largely nonviolent indigenous, civil insurrection.
But in the 13th century, the brutal Mongol conquests caused the deaths of an estimated 40 million people — not so far from the 55 million who died in the Second World War — in a world with only one-seventh the population of the mid-20th century.
