Sentence examples for conquest with from inspiring English sources

All three ruled by right of conquest, with no pretense that they had any obligations toward those who they ruled.

Dayan used blatant colonial rhetoric, and religious leaders sanctified military conquest with messianic language; few saw the peril inherent in holding on to the territories.

That damage began after the Spanish conquest, with forced labor in mines far from ancestral homelands and the colonial masters' use of people as currency in business deals.

It created an engine of global conquest with built-in checks that protected the kingdom from would-be dictators and, especially, democracy.

We're playing the Sector Control Mode, essentially Conquest, with a set of three bases that have to be captured and protected from the enemy.

But she was afraid of the janjaweed, who had remained nearby to celebrate their conquest with a roast of stolen livestock.

He interweaves deeply researched accounts of military conquests with speculation about Catherine's infamous but under-documented love life.

If he sees a pretty broad in the street, chances are he'll try to sleep with her, wooing his conquests with lofty boxing tales.

She described parties on yachts where, she said, he had shared some "young conquests with his friends, and other oligarchs," according to the petition.

As for the United States Fencing Association, it hopes to make these kinds of conquests with the saber more of a reality and less of a dream.

Finally, the American Psychiatric Association reclassified nymphomania in the 1980's as "distress about a pattern of repeated sexual conquests with a succession of individuals who exist only as things to be used".