Sentence examples for in a conquest from inspiring English sources

But in "China Safari: On the Trail of Beijing's Expansion in Africa" (Nation Books, $27.50), Serge Michel and Michel Beuret examine the roots of this relationship — and argue that China is engaged in a conquest of Africa that will have worldwide economic implications.

In a conquest that typifies the age, Home Depot recently knocked Sears off the Dow Jones industrial average.

The admiral and the Cabinet were eager for an end to the conflict which would have resulted in a conquest of the enemy capital and a consequent boost in the popularity of the Brazilian government.

The first record of this type of influence is in 384 AD, when China established an orchestra in its imperial court after a conquest in Turkestan.

Ralph Ellison commented on this in an interview: "The American novel is in this sense a conquest of the frontier; as it describes our experience, it creates it".

In 1070, expecting a conquest of England by King Sweyn II of Denmark, Hereward and some followers joined a force of Danish sailors who had come to Ely.

On the one hand, wide strata of the population lived in the permanent state of slavery; on the other hand, on the basis of the prevailing usage of war, even the free population could face the danger of passing into possession of the victor as a slave in case of a conquest.

The puzzle of automatically synthesizing analog and radio frequency (RF) circuit topology has not yet been offered with an industrially-acceptable solution although endeavors still continue to seek a conquest in this area.

Whether the two parts of Dál Riata had long been united, or whether a conquest in the 4th century or early 5th century, either of Antrim from Argyll, or vice versa, in line with myth, is not known.

Andy Pettitte and Orlando Hernández have each missed big chunks of the first 81 games, but Pettitte pitched a three-hitter to silence the exasperated Mets on Sunday and Hernández looked as if he were tossing batting practice when he glided through four scoreless innings of relief in an 11-5 cofquesthef the Mets on Friday.

These campaigns resulted in a permanent conquest of the Punjab, where Lahore (now in Pakistan) became the residence of a Ghaznavid prince as the viceroy of Hindustan.