Sentence examples for conquest against from inspiring English sources

After Corinth, the way was clear for Grant to begin his march of conquest against Vicksburg.

In 1334, however, he began his war of conquest against Byzantium.

Iran's leaders knew their army was woefully unprepared and underequipped to conduct a war of conquest against a vastly superior Iraqi Army.

In private, Hitler considered the Sudeten issue unimportant; his real intention was a war of conquest against Czechoslovakia.

As the young nation grew in strength the strategy was implemented by military conquests against virtually all of its neighbors from Canada to Mexico to almost all of Latin America and beyond.

But there are many historical instances in which the national unity that Miller assumes will be harnessed for the pursuit of distributive justice has been ferociously directed toward conquest and against non-nationals and dissenting members of the nation itself.

Ironically, it was the religious ministers who were most outspoken against conquest of the Old City.

Year in, year out, there was resistance to conquest, and rebellion against occupation, often followed by mutiny and revolt – by individuals, groups, armies and entire peoples.

Their history had been marked by cultural disruptions, including an 18th-century British conquest, various protests against church and state and, most recently, an elaborate struggle to carve out and preserve their cultural identity within the confines of English-dominant Canada.

The period saw increasing threat of Ottoman conquest and struggle against the Republic of Venice for control of coastal areas.

The Iberian reconquest, which began as a traditional war of conquest, became a crusade against Islam and fused an Iberian Catholicism that Spain and Portugal later transplanted around the globe.