Not the least attraction of Scottish nationalism is that independence offers Scotland the chance to be what Thatcher called an ordinary country, freed from a burdensome British past – conquest, war, glory – of which Trident may be the last potent symbol.
The most copied image, "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," is in this show, with its three powerful riders representing Conquest, War and Famine, and the fourth, a skeletal white-haired figure on a sickly horse, representing Death.
From Gaza to Liberia, from Donetsk to Sinjar, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse — conquest, war, famine and death — are thundering across the planet, leaving havoc in their wake.
It is often associated with non-Christian ideals of conquest, war, hierarchies and classism.
As for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, symbolizing Conquest, War, Famine and Death, fuhgeddaboudit, as they say in New York.
In the biblical times of the New Testament, the four horsemen of the apocalypse were Conquest, War, Famine and Death.
But in proportion as the public freedom was lost in extent of conquest, war was gradually improved into an art, and degraded into a trade".
As Ricci put it in an e-mail, "We are now being 'forced' to associate the land walls of Istanbul with conquests, wars, assaults, triumphs — e.g., the 1453 Panorama Museum — but in reality most of the life of the walls was about something else, and the bostan is a testimony of this".
His colourful prose dealt with conquests, war, diplomacy, and politics—not with cultural, social, or economic themes.
Britain's empire was established, and maintained for more than two centuries, through bloodshed, violence, brutality, conquest and war.
