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.
Toward the middle of 1583, by conquering the towns of Diest and Westerlo, he endangered communications between Antwerp and Brussels.
Spurred on by that, he's recently gone one better, by conquering the Atlantic, again the first quadriplegic to do so.
They force heirs to earn their entrepreneurial spurs, perhaps by conquering new regions or entering new industries.
Ferdinand and Isabella linked Aragon and Castile by marriage and also brought the Reconquista to a conclusion by conquering Granada.
But to many long-suffering Social Democrats he looks like Germany's Tony Blair, somebody to lead the left to victory by conquering the political centre.
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.
