Sentence examples for for a conquest from inspiring English sources

It was presumably not setting the stage for a conquest of those countries.

Add an irresistible anti-hero eager for a conquest that eludes him precisely because he understands nothing, in the end, about the people he dreams of subduing; a hapless yet winning indigenous population that, almost by accident, successfully resists him; and digressions powerfully evoking the cultures whose fates are at stake in these grand conflicts.

Amundsen then changed his plan and began to prepare for a conquest of the South Pole; uncertain of the extent to which the public and his backers would support him, he kept this revised objective secret.

A formal alliance was negotiated in 1168, whereby the two rulers arranged for a conquest and partition of Egypt, with Manuel taking the coastal area, and Amalric the interior.

All adversaries profit from seeing the truth of Shakespeare' s lines, "A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser".

"In this field nothing is provable," Quinlan wrote, "but it is far from clear that they would regard less than half of 1% of their population as an unthinkable price for contemplating a conquest of western Europe".

"It's a conquest for me," Ms. Chiesi said during the July 30 call.

"They are aiming for a sectarian conquest," said the Peshmerga officer.

His crucial invention, Buzz Drumer, a homosexual passionate enough to sacrifice his fortune for a bygone conquest, is oddly unpersuasive as gay; he is so politely and persistently attentive to Pearl that he is mistaken for her lover.

The most benign reaction to such threat would be to cut off energy supplies to Ukraine; more likely would be endless military skirmishes and small territorial grabs that would sap Ukraine's resources and eliminate any hope for prosperity; and failing that, a conquest of Ukraine.

The Europeans were motivated by their lust for glory, for conquest, for women and above all for gold.