Sentence examples for local conquest from inspiring English sources

Any victorious election speech must turn campaign vinegar into national balm, must move from local conquest to national triumph, and Obama cunningly used this necessity to expand epically through American space and time.

UniCredit's shareholders might be sorry that the bank is not giving greater priority to its international expansion plans than its domestic ones.For UniCredit's boss, Alessandro Profumo, there might be something a little disappointing about walking down the aisle with a local conquest, rather than a tantalising French beauty.

Similarly, Japan might have contented itself with a few local conquests.

He was a novice, but he knew that to re-impose Moscow's will on Chechnya, he needed a local to give conquest a Chechen face.

This pattern of local government survived the Norman Conquest.

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.

The local population survived the Hungarian conquest.

The cremations, carried out by S.S. officers with relevant experience in Treblinka, took place only yards from the spot where, in 1940, crowds had cheered a local Wehrmacht regiment returning from the conquest of France.

It illustrates how Cyrus co-opted local traditions and symbols to legitimize his conquest and control of Babylon.

As he watches bulldozers in a neighbouring property ripping up trees and scrub to make way for soya plants, Adolfo Farias, a local peasant farmer, draws parallels with the Spanish conquest.

Before the Norman Conquest (1066), the chief unit of local government in England was the shire, which had originated in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of the early Middle Ages.