Sentence examples for former conquest from inspiring English sources

The other is Marissa's cousin Raul (Paolo Montalban), a preening yuppie lothario, whose promiscuity ends with a telephone call from a former conquest informing him she is H.I.V. positive.

Her prophecy came true: she found enduring fame in the work of a former conquest, Alexandre Dumas fils, "La Dame aux Camélias" (there's a newly translated version by Liesl Schillinger, a regular contributor to the Book Review), as well as in "La Traviata," the opera Verdi based on Dumas's novel and play.

Tiberius sought a solution of the manpower problem in a large-scale revival of the traditional Roman policy, abandoned only in the last 30 years, of settling landless men on the extensive public lands acquired by the Roman state during the former conquest of Italy.

But his life is turned upside down with the arrival of an anonymous letter telling him that he has a 19-year-old son by one of his former conquests.

After doing a show in a town where the fair had played the previous year, he is astonished to notice one of his former conquests, Romina (Eva Mendes), hanging around, apparently wanting to say hi – but weirdly reserved and showing no great need to rekindle the relationship.

One of his former conquests, Tarmini, stands up and tells the crowd, including Soelarsa, of the bridegroom's true nature.

A major sponsor of FESPACO is the International Organization of Francophonie (OIF), France's soft diplomacy effort to keep a sense of community and common culture alive among its far-flung former conquests.

The audience's surrogate is Carl Tom Sturridgee), or Young Carl, as he is nicknamed, who's been kicked out of private school and farmed out to station owner Quentin (Bill Nighy), by Carl's mother, one of Quentin's former conquests.

Manchester man Crolla came into the fight on the back of a great British battle with Liverpool's Derry Mathews - a former Rees conquest - which ended in a draw in March.

Mike takes the opportunity to visit his former sexual conquests, all of whom have reason to resent his callousness and arrogance.

If that happened, however, it might cost the U.S. in a wider Soviet claim on former Japanese conquests in Asia.