Sentence examples for conquest about from inspiring English sources

From Sogdiana itself there is only a small collection of documents from Mount Mugh in the Zarafshān region, mainly the business correspondence of a minor Sogdian king, Dewashtich, from the time of the Arab conquest about 700.

The Silures inhabited the area at the time of the Roman conquest, about 75 ce.

At 10 he saw a film in Washington, Man of Conquest, about the US-Mexican wars.

Certainly the show has some of the staples of that genre: fraternal teasing and roughhousing, idle boasts of sexual conquest, jokes about masturbation and the consumption of cheap beer.

(Thutmose III of Egypt claimed Cyprus as one of his conquests about 1500 bc).

Apparently, Tallulah cared more about the act of conquest than about the sexual act itself.

The Tikrit offensive, which began in early March, is the largest government operation to date against Islamic State, which took control of the city in its stunning conquest of about one-third of Iraqi territory last summer.

We quietly pondered the complexity of this scholar who was also a slave owner, this intellectual who also opened millions of acres of land for settlement and conquest, and about the relationship between learning and moral behavior.

It assumes that the wars and conquests it talks about are natural, an extension of the violent survivalist core it attributes to life in nature.

Mr. Opalach hinted at the nastier side of Falstaff, boasting about his imminent conquest of Alice Ford and swaggering about like an outlandishly attired Don Juan, mocking her husband, Ford.

These uprisings made it clear that the social fabric of Italy, put under stress by the transformations brought about by conquest, had to be protected by Roman force.