Sentence examples for impulse to conquer from inspiring English sources

We have indeed attained greater heights but the implications of our impulse to conquer are only too apparent: the damage can be seen in the hills, the air, the earth and the ocean.

For an administration joined at the hip to the oil industry, the lure of Iraq's enormous reserves was stronger even than the impulse to conquer an enemy that murdered more than 2,700 civilians on Sept. 11, a toll greater than the number of Americans killed by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor.

It may be related to a primal impulse to conquer a headland, to be king of the hill, surveying all below.

The English critic and composer Wilfrid Mellers once suggested western musical structures mirrored that civilisation's impulse to appropriate and conquer, while southern Africa's represented harmony with its surroundings.

My concern here is more with cultural protectionism — the impulse not to conquer the rest of the world but rather to tune it out.

By way of a backup, Gallaxhar assembles a force of identical drones, whose sole, remorseless impulse is to conquer the world.

It was an impulse to be conquered, because no good could come of it.

The candidate promised change in government by means of reduced partisanship and decried the Bush Administration as one "whose first impulse is to divide and to conquer".

An important impulse to prevent and conquer disaster health problems is the delivery of specific services to deal with the needs of the affected population.

I sleep to conquer.

"To conquer is to live".