Sentence examples similar to by conquered from inspiring English sources

These domineering types seek to establish security by conquering and outperforming other people.

By conquering much of Iraq, they may soon be menacing Iran's border.

This was colonialism not by conquering armies but by persistent real-estate transactions — and, when necessary, baksheesh.

"America is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by failing ones," the Bush authors write.

Ferdinand and Isabella linked Aragon and Castile by marriage and also brought the Reconquista to a conclusion by conquering Granada.

Toward the middle of 1583, by conquering the towns of Diest and Westerlo, he endangered communications between Antwerp and Brussels.

They force heirs to earn their entrepreneurial spurs, perhaps by conquering new regions or entering new industries.

Italo-Turkish War, (1911 12), war undertaken by Italy to gain colonies in North Africa by conquering the Turkish provinces of Tripolitana and Cyrenaica (modern Libya).

Caesar, by conquering the whole of Gaul, had almost equaled Pompey's prestige and, by his utterly ruthless way of waging war, Pompey's wealth.

Indeed, the Bush administration's 2002 national security strategy asserted that "America is now threatened less by conquering states than we are by failing ones".

Spurred on by that, he's recently gone one better, by conquering the Atlantic, again the first quadriplegic to do so.