Sentence examples for maintain conquest from inspiring English sources

Or, you can forget about your other territories and expand in Asia itself, while this doesn't take your soldiers far from home, it is very hard to maintain conquest of the whole continent of Asia, though with your extra pieces and your weak opponents (because the have been fighting each other) very possible.

He was not able to maintain the conquest, however, and was soon forced to abandon Alexandria.

His successors did not command his prestige among the local population and were unable to maintain his conquests in the face of local revolts and invasion by the Turgesh khaganate, and most of Transoxiana was abandoned or became hotly contested territory in the years after his death.

According to the lawsuits, the Alpha Rho chapter maintained a "conquest board" of women the members slept with, and passed it on from class to class.

Ruling at the height of Egypt's imperial era, he strove to maintain his father's conquests by physical and military skills.

Both in public and private she comes across as prepared, moderate and conciliatory, vowing to "maintain the PSDB's economic conquests and the PT's social conquests".

Hastings's policy was to avoid further conquest and war but to maintain peaceful relations with neighbouring states by a series of alliances.

This is, in part, because the ban on conquest has allowed small states to maintain their sovereignty.

Sargon's problem was not only to maintain the status quo but to make further conquests to prove the might of the god Ashur, the national god of the Assyrian empire.

It was only by playing those groups off against each other that Mehmed was able to maintain his own position and power and to continue his conquests.

All in all, modern historians tend to disregard the figures given by Las Casas, but maintain that the general picture he presented of an intensely violent and abusive conquest did represent reality.