Sentence examples for difficult conquest from inspiring English sources

Yet she and Greene were together only 10 years; she was a difficult conquest, and an immature love that he grew out of.

After difficult conquests of their home regions, the two movements spread the cause of independence through other territories, finally meeting on the central Pacific coast.

HERR BOHM: From the point of view of conspiracy with which the SA is charged here, do you know that it was said to have always been the task of the SA, especially in the years 1933 to 1939, to prepare Germany, and especially the youth, for a difficult war of conquest by instilling, increasing, and maintaining a warlike spirit in Germany, especially among the youth?

Still, the decentralized nature of Saxon society made ultimate conquest extremely difficult.

The existence of hills, mountains, quicksands and marshes made internal communication and conquest extremely difficult.

Acadia's people were placed in a difficult position by the conquest.

The existence of hills, mountains, quicksands and marshes made internal communication and conquest extremely difficult and may have contributed to the fragmented nature of political power.

For many specialists in Russian history--and for the informed general reader as well--the most difficult to accept of Conquest's many unsettling conclusions will probably be that Stalin used "terror-famine" consciously and purposefully as an instrument of his Ukrainian policy.

However, testing the idea that cooperation allows animals to become generalists that thrive in diverse environments an idea referred to as the 'social conquest hypothesis' is difficult.

Even with the use of large numbers of Shiite irregulars, along with Iranian military advisers, the conquest in Tikrit proved difficult, stalling for weeks until the advent of American airstrikes.

In the end, however, the conquest (which began in 1482) proved difficult and drawn out, and it strained the finances of Castile.