Sentence examples for conquered the first from inspiring English sources

Russia conquered the first three of these khanates in the 16th century, but the Crimean khanate became a vassal state of the Ottoman Turks until it was annexed to Russia by Catherine the Great in 1783.

You conquered the first week of holiday parties, 24/7 Christmas music, and a non-stop loop of "Love Actually" on your TV screen.

There is no better measure of the failure of Bush's foreign policy than that, five years after we conquered the second-most important pool of oil in the world, the American taxpayers who paid for this grand imperial adventure are rewarded with skyrocketing prices at the pump.

Ms. Somova, who was full of youthfully acrobatic overemphasis when the company last visited New York in 2008, has gained refinement and glow: she could yet conquer the first movement.

Francis Wheen published his brilliant - and very funny - How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World (Fourth Estate).

The Han Chinese came in the first century BC along the Silk Road and conquered the region in the first century after Christ, but were constantly harassed by Mongols and Turks.

The gap-toothed sweetheart has apparently conquered the stammer that first endeared him to the country, and become a musical theatre regular.

The Tatars conquered the region during the first half of the 13th century ad.

When she conquered the fear of the first two, settled into a relationship and became pregnant, she miscarried and blamed herself.

Though there was a considerable Sabine infiltration into Rome, the view that the Sabines conquered the city in the first half of the 5th century bc is improbable; rather, the Romans had many skirmishes with the Sabines before their victory in 449.

He subsequently overthrew the Persian King Darius III and conquered the entirety of the First Persian Empire.