Sentence examples for foreign conquest from inspiring English sources

"The threat of foreign conquest is enough to unite Iraq's sects," says a Baath party official.

It was the first successful foreign conquest of Indian soil since Alexander the Great plun dered Punjab.

The storms destroyed most of the Mongol ships and dispersed the rest, forcing the attackers to abandon their plans and fortuitously saving Japan from foreign conquest.

Tutankhamen's successor, the warlord-pharaoh Horemheb, left boastful accounts of foreign conquest that sound suspiciously grandiose in relation to plausible reality.

During the New Kingdom the city shared the increasingly cosmopolitan character of the nation, as trade, foreign conquest, and travel developed.

While the whole series should be required viewing for any president or prime minister tempted by a foreign conquest, the final episode, The Weight of Memory, is an especially important lesson about consequence.

Nevertheless, several sultans succeeded in harnessing the energies of the Mamlūk system to establish internal stability and to embark on foreign conquests.

This probably reflects an effort to increase the central authority at Susa in order to conduct effective military campaigns abroad and to hold Elamite foreign conquests.

Because interstate warfare or foreign conquests were primary preoccupations of Mesopotamian rulers, it is understandable that in most periods a certain class of artworks was dedicated simply to the glorification of their military prowess.

Further, Hitler's continuous string of diplomatic successes and foreign conquests from 1934 through the early years of World War II secured the unqualified support of most Germans, including many who had previously opposed him.

Mussolini might have remained a hero until his death had not his callous xenophobia and arrogance, his misapprehension of Italy's fundamental necessities, and his dreams of empire led him to seek foreign conquests.