Sentence examples for devoted to the conquest from inspiring English sources
Although he conducted campaigns on the southern and eastern frontiers, Shalmaneser's main military effort was devoted to the conquest of North Syria.
He signed the 1971 "National Cancer Act," devoted to "the conquest of cancer".
Erdoğan, who frequently invokes Turkey's Ottoman past, opened the 1453 Panorama Museum, which is devoted to the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople.
He is also building a new Museum of the Ara Pacis, devoted to the altar of peace that the Roman emperor Augustus ordered built to give thanks for his conquest of Gaul and the consolidation of his empire.
This, the third and last in a series of shows that the Met has devoted to the empire of Byzantium, tries to recreate the so-called Byzantine commonwealth as it existed before and after the Ottoman Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453.
One fascinating section is devoted to the casta<\/em> genre\u2014scenes of racially mixed families\u2014illuminating the complex social structures and dress codes of the post-conquest era.
To bring home more fully the loss of life involved, Mr. Conquest points out that it exceeds the total deaths on both sides during World War I. Yet "Harvest of Sorrow" is the first general history to be devoted to the calamitous events it describes.
