Sentence examples for from conquest from inspiring English sources

But for him love cannot be separated from conquest and possession.

Bago became a major centre of Theravada scholarship and of commerce in Southeast Asia, attributes that protected it from conquest.

Although he saved Greek Sicily from conquest by Carthage, his brutal military despotism harmed the cause of Hellenism.

Florence was now encircled, and perhaps it was saved from conquest only by Gian Galeazzo's death in September from plague.

For the classicist Robert Kaster, there is no road in Europe that has been so heavily travelled by people with so many different aims, from conquest to pilgrimage.

In a similar vein, Mariano Picón Salas published in 1944 his De la conquista a la independencia: tres siglos de historia cultural hispanoamericana (A Cultural History of Spanish America, from Conquest to Independence).

Austrian forces returning from conquests in the Ottoman east in the early 1700's brought back vampire stories, which circulated throughout Europe, later inspiring Byron, Keats and Coleridge.

The booty from conquests also helped defray the costs of such public works as the building of temples and roads and the improvement of the city's water supply.

Following a group of populist rebels from Marseilles from their conquest of a local garrison through their march to Paris (they sing and discuss the song en route), Renoir presents, in effect, a band of troubadours with flintlocks.

Hitler's Germany marched from one conquest to the next between 1936 and 1938.

Stephen also opened the country to strong foreign influences, while saving it from German conquest.