Sentence examples for claiming to conquer from inspiring English sources

Every Silicon Valley company tries to trump up its importance by claiming to conquer a higher level of abstraction.

Occasionally people have claimed to conquer R.H., but all claims have collapsed.

They can truly claim to have conquered the Alexandrine.Ultimately the play rests on the shoulders of the actress who plays Phèdre.

The contributors to "The Landmark Arrian" carefully walk the reader through the multitude of contradictions, at Persepolis and elsewhere: While Alexander claimed to have conquered Persia on behalf of Greece, in the ancient world Greeks and Macedonians were considered distinct peoples.

Former Chief Architect Blaine Cook famously said scaling Rails was "easy" in April 2007 (see image to right), but problems persisted after Cook claimed to have conquered the problem.

The Rashtrakuta king Krishna II (878 914), a contemporary of the Chola king Parantaka I (907 950), claims to have conquered Thanjavur, but there are no records to support the claim.

"We cannot have a free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forgo, or postpone, a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered us".

Gorm's son and successor, Harald I (Bluetooth), claimed to have unified Denmark, conquered Norway, and Christianized the Danes.

For a man claiming that he used equine expertise to conquer AIDS, he was pretty matter-of-fact about the whole thing.

His father came from a line of Norman squires claiming a forebear who sailed with William to conquer England in 1066.

Vacuum cleaner tycoon James Dyson yesterday conjured up the spirit of the Beatles as he claimed to be the first Briton to have conquered America since the Fab Four.