Sentence examples for conquest administration from inspiring English sources

And on this count, it is not clear that Rome and Jerusalem fit the bill: Rome was a world power, with a genius for conquest, administration and construction.

The Roman road system made possible Roman conquest and administration and later provided highways for the great migrations into the empire and a means for the diffusion of Christianity.

After the conquest, the colonial administration of Petén was divided between the ecclesiastical authorities in Yucatán and secular administration as part of the Captaincy General of Guatemala.

Few Mongols remained west of the Urals after the conquest; political and fiscal administration was entrusted to the same Turkic clan leaders and Islamic merchants who had for generations operated in the area.

For him, the empire was about consolidation and administration rather than conquest, and its benefits were often unromantic ones: it gave its inhabitants railways, sanitary engineering and, above all, law (he was a notably litigious man himself).Mr Gilmour's biography does not entirely live up to the claims that it makes to say something new about Kipling's relations with empire.

It was for Sargon to resume the conquests and to improve the administration of the empire his father had begun to assemble.

Under efficient administration the new conquests provided Istanbul with revenues that solved the financial problems left from the 15th century and made the empire one of the most powerful and wealthy states in the 16th century.

The government system during the early years of the Mongol conquest was a synthesis of Mongol military administration and a gradual return to Chinese traditions in those domains ruled by former subjects of the Jin state.

Think of Gore Vidal nursing the idea that 9/11 was part of a Bush administration plot to justify oil-field conquest.

Today's economic circumstances mean that, in the short run, the administration can actually afford to spend billions simultaneously on conquest and on consumption.

But administration officials say Syria offers a case study of how the American conquest of Iraq has changed the political map in the region.