Sentence examples for for conquest from inspiring English sources

New Yorkers strode by like tigers and gazelles, sated with self-satisfaction and hungry for conquest.

In the early '60s space was for conquest; the social order was overripe for exploration.

I often think we look like an alien race preparing for conquest.

And even if winning and losing are irrelevant, the children have a vague sense of soccer's opportunity for conquest.

At first it's funny and superior as Mavis patronises her despised Hicksville roots and prepares herself for conquest.

Ms. Carlson rode a rodeo horse -- in 50 performances, she fell off only once -- as a metaphor for conquest.

Ousted from his ancestral domain in Central Asia, Bābur turned to India to satisfy his appetite for conquest.

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

During this period they'll back off, go into hiding in the Afghan and Pakistani mountains, and train for conquest when we begin drawing down substantial numbers of troops.

Hideyoshi's thirst for conquest may have been partly inspired by the experience of two failed attempts by Mongol armies to take over Japan in the 13th century.

"This is not a war for conquest, this is not a war for glory, this is not a war for profit.