Sentence examples for conquests made from inspiring English sources

By and large, these were the conquests made by Tiglath-pileser III. Tiglath-pileser III

Although the Athenian writer Isocrates hailed him as a champion of Hellenism, the brutality of Dionysius' conquests made him unpopular in Greece, and his literary pretensions were deplored.

The political and economic changes that developed in the 4th century bc, following the Macedonian Greek king Alexander III the Great's conquest of these states and their incorporation in the Seleucid empire, and the conquests made, in turn, by the Parthians, Arabs, Turks, and Mongols are reflected in the regions' arts.

By that treaty France renounced to Great Britain all of mainland North America east of the Mississippi River (excluding New Orleans and environs); the West Indian islands of Grenada, Saint Vincent, Dominica, and Tobago; and all French conquests made since 1749 in India or in the East Indies.

The ingrained habit of palm-greasing across the continent has suddenly erupted from below the surface, leading to wide-ranging court investigations, especially in Brazil and Argentina, that seem to be shaking the foundations of the social conquests made by the left-leaning politicians now in retreat around the continent.

On his northern frontier Manuel expended considerable effort to preserve the conquests made by Basil II over one hundred years earlier and maintained, sometimes tenuously, ever since.

Although such passages are less boastful than self-mocking, Mr. Swofford's litany of sexual conquests make the same obvious point over and over again: that he had difficulties with commitment and fidelity, a problem that he apparently shared with his father, John Howard Swofford, who, the author says, was always trying to regale him with stories about his womanizing.

One lie is that tax cuts, big business, nonexistence of government, eradication of collective bargaining, and global military conquests make America the land of the free and the home of the brave.

When not making a meager living collecting trash, he hangs out with security guard Pickle (Cres Chuang), watching color dashcam footage pilfered from the car belonging to his elitist, American-educated boss, Kevin Leon Daii), whose unseen sexual conquests make for a provocative soundtrack.

The Hispanic colonists after the conquest made use of several indigenous crafts for their own purposes.

That Series conquest made his departure all the more curious because it came only a year later.