Sentence examples for great conquest from inspiring English sources

According to legend, Ahmad Shah Durrani, who founded Afghanistan a quarter of a millennium ago, brought the cloak to Kandahar from a great conquest.

After the Spaniard succeeded in his great conquest, Atahuallpa feared that Pizarro might return Huascar to power, and so he ordered his brother's assassination.

We take pictures of our most sexy meals and put them on social media so everyone can look at our great conquest, but we would get in big trouble if we did that with our lover.

There would be no more great conquests, particularly in the West.

Like his protagonist, Napoleon had just turned 26; his great conquests were still ahead of him.

The great conquests of the Mongols, which would transform them into a world power, were still to come.

In addition, the flood of slaves into Rome from the great conquests increased the flow of foreign-born freedmen into the citizen body.

The era of great conquests had ended, and, on the face of it, Louis's principal preoccupation was his relationship with the peoples to the north.

The Byzantine victories proved decisive: the main threats to the Byzantine borderlands were eliminated, and the era of Byzantine ascendancy in the East, which would culminate in the great conquests of the 10th century, had begun.

Raqqa in eastern Syria is Isis's strategic hub, and Mosul in Iraq is its greatest conquest.

Deteriorating living conditions mean that many want to leave Mosul, but they are prevented by Isis, which does not want to find that its greatest conquest has become a ghost town.