On the 40th anniversary of her death at age 67, Vilmorin's despair is remembered as the wrenching fallout from an omnibus of high-profile affairs — romantic conquests that, for all their epic quality, never filled her cup.
-- we fell victim to hubris, as we imagined that, in discovering how to unlock some systems, we had found the key for the conquest of all natural phenomena.
Once the U.S. fleet was out of action, the way for the unhindered Japanese conquest of all of Southeast Asia and the Indonesian Archipelago would be open.
Versailles 73 tells through a first-person montage of dialogue and imagery a story of integration and conquest for which we all can be proud: Americans for their innovative shaking up of an old school luxury industry, Frenchmen for their ability to shirk the bonds of patrician fashion tradition and recognize the new corner being turned, and for their having joined in that journey.
Even the greatest empires of antiquity learned that conquest was temporary, and for all its might, the N.F.L. knows how to stake a claim and move on.
Particularly notable is the 13th rock edict, which bares the ruler's pangs of conscience over the conquest of Kalinga eight years after his coronation, his continuing sorrow over the cruelties committed, and his pledge to substitute the victory of Buddhist religious law (dhamma) for all earthly conquest.
The Europeans were motivated by their lust for glory, for conquest, for women and above all for gold.
And for all his conquests, he died facing questions that "14-year-olds have: What am I gonna do?
For example, within days of the military conquest of the holiest place of worship for all Jews, the Orthodox rabbinate took control of the Western Wall, banned Reformist devotions and literally walled off women who came to pray.
Spanish explorers founded Old Panama, which became the natural jumping-off point for further conquests, its Renaissance-style construction serving as a model for all other colonial South American cities.
