He wrote that folk come to these mountains "seeking for something unnameable, a lost Eden, a lost childhood: for fulfilment, for escape, for refuge, for conquest of themselves, for peace, for adventure.
The Normans and French who arrived after the conquest saw themselves as different from the English.
Following the battle the Mino Triumvirate, awed by the speed and skill of Nobunaga's conquest, permanently allied themselves to Nobunaga.
Female students find themselves treated as conquests by men on nights out.
Social movements, like armies, define themselves by their conquests, not by their defeats.
"As I was growing up, people were always trying to talk about their sexual conquests, and trying to make themselves appear, you know, like the Don, you know, Casanova".
In any case, after the Arab conquests, the majority of Jews found themselves outside the Empire; those left inside the Byzantine borders apparently lived in relative peace from the 10th century onwards.
Throughout history, more powerful nations have always sought to portray themselves as more noble and their conquests as serving an elevated purpose.
Johnny is a man of endless sexual encounters, though none is a conquest, as women throw themselves at him wherever he goes.
Only when large Jewish and Christian communities found themselves under Muslim rule after the Arab conquests of the 7th century did the need for an Arabic vernacular Scripture arise.
