This was the speech of a conqueror in a hostile capital.
It was the speech of a conqueror in a hostile capital.
We hear about Bolívar's "perturbing maleness," but can't quite visualize the tiny, brooding conqueror in the flesh.
In a campaign, one can have, or show, the trajectory of a conqueror; in power, it's not possible.
"Hero" is an elastic word, after all, stretchable to fit a favorite ballplayer or a great conqueror in war or discovery — almost anyone admirable.
Some say this fabled eight-acre enclosure in the Shahrara neighborhood of Kabul goes back to the days of Babur the Conqueror, in the 1500s.
"Every biography of William on my shelf mentions Hugh's description of William the Conqueror in the context of the king's funeral in 1087".
At the opening ceremony of the Marmaray station, at Yenikapı, Erdoğan quoted Mehmet the Conqueror in Ottoman Turkish, a language drastically modernized under Atatürk.
The land walls, which isolate the peninsula from the mainland, were breached only once, by cannon of the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II (the Conqueror) in 1453, at the spot since called Cannon Gate (Top Kapısı).
Yesterday, Pistorius made a strategic retreat from his ferocious denouncement of the rules governing artificial limbs which, he contended, had given an unfair advantage to his surprise conqueror in the T44 200m final, Brazil's Alan Fonteles Oliveira.
They had just sat through nearly four hours of a delightful hors d'oeuvre in the first semi-final, Wawrinka, Roger Federer's conqueror in the last eight, finally crushing their hero, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in four sets.
