Sentence examples for efforts to conquer from inspiring English sources

London's widely anthologized masterpiece illustrates in graphic terms the futility of human efforts to conquer nature.

It is an exhibit of globes, models, drawings, and photographs that depict man's efforts to conquer outer space.

In 1519 Hernán Cortés used the island as a base for Spanish efforts to conquer the Maya.

More recently, Mr. Ames has played a central conciliatory role in the industry's efforts to conquer online piracy.

Siri is likely to take a central role in Apple's efforts to conquer the home with its HomeKit automation system.

More provokingly, the EU's perceived mania for regulation is seen as wrecking efforts to conquer more promising markets.Such arguments convince many backbenchers.

Thoreau's literary activities went indifferently, however, and the effort to conquer New York failed.

He speaks incredibly slowly, having learned to do so as a teenager in a successful effort to conquer a stammer.

The next wave of Normans, led by the sons of a lesser Norman landholder, Tancred of Hauteville, undertook a full-scale effort to conquer the south.

Android TV, another new initiative, will be the company's latest effort to conquer the screens in people's homes after several earlier attempts fizzled out.

Earlier this year Barack Obama vowed to "launch a new effort to conquer a disease that has touched the life of nearly every American".