Sentence examples for gained glory from inspiring English sources

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In 1758 he went to Copenhagen to study theology, fell in love, and, in search of quickly gained glory, ran away to fight in the Seven Years' War.

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Benslama said this "glorification" encouraged others to carry out attacks, "to gain glory in the eyes of their commanders and their friends".

Intertribal fighting seldom involved major tribal forces; it was carried out mainly by raiding parties of a few warriors to avenge a death, to steal horses, and especially to gain glory.

The idea is that Frederick should gain glory by looking beyond the restive, blood-soaked territories of the Holy Roman Empire, beyond even the avid dream of the Crusades, to recover the Holy Land for Christendom.

Those who want to obtain easy victory or think they can gain glory, please stay a little further away from the Diaoyu Islands," he wrote, then flagged a conference organized by his newspaper this weekend that plans to assemble experts from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau and offer solutions to the dispute to both "officials and the people".

In the 1990s, they saw one of their own become president, watching him gain glory as one of the most gifted politicians of his time, but also infamy as one of its most self-indulgent — a poster child for the Me Generation.

Prides in the Mara conservancies are gaining glory.

The principal reason for the invasion was Manlius' desire to seize the wealth of the Galatians who had become rich from plundering their neighbours and to gain glory for himself.

It's hard for me to pick just one of this author's books, but I found it most memorable for the story of just how far a writer might go to gain glory, and what it life might be as the wife, daughter, or friend of such a writer.

Starting in the mid-1950's, imported athletes gained track glory at colleges like Texas-El Paso, Washington State, Villanova, Houston and Southern Methodist.

In July, writing to former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt, who had gained wartime glory by leading the Rough Riders volunteer regiment, Hay made a description of the war for which, according to Zeitz, he "is best remembered by many students of American history": Secretary Sherman had resigned on the eve of war, and been replaced by his first assistant, William R. Day.

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