Sentence examples for conquering campaign from inspiring English sources

When Alexander the Great tried to seize Halicarnassus, the ancient capital of the region (now the town of Bodrum), he found it so well defended that he was forced to ask for the only truce of his conquering campaign.

Their discussions with the slow-growth leaders have all the earmarks of a divide-and-conquer campaign against an almost certain initiative qualification.

Anything but a conventional candidate, this strategy illuminates how Trump has been singularly focused on running a divide and conquer campaign that's centered on self promotion.

Slumdog Millionaire began its all-conquering campaign there two years ago.

As Harzand passed the post as winner of this year's Derby, he would have reminded many horse racing fans of his father, Sea the Stars, who took the same race during an all-conquering campaign in 2009.

But it's hard to imagine that Ms. Gainsbourg would have the patience for anything that smacked of a conquer-America campaign, especially one built on fashion.

In November, Hill posted his opposition to Russia's anti-gay laws in a tweet supporting Human Rights Campaign's Love Conquers Hate campaign.

(A legacy of the command-control attitude is the militaristic vocabulary that's still common: "target audience," "campaign," "conquering the market" etc).

In 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte conquered Haifa during his unsuccessful campaign to conquer Palestine and Syria, but soon had to withdraw; in the campaign's final proclamation, Napoleon took credit for having razed the fortifications of "Kaïffa" (as the name was spelled at the time) along with those of Gaza, Jaffa and Acre.

He continued his father's foreign campaigns, conquering the Korean peninsula and making Korea a vassal state in 668.

Likewise, the game will add a conquer the world campaign, which will feature a globe divided into territories (like Risk) for you to add to your empire over time.