Sentence examples for make conquests in from inspiring English sources

The Turks first began to make conquests in the Balkans in the mid-14th century.

Starting with lowly PCs, Dell has moved on to make conquests in computer servers, data storage systems and printers.

Though little known outside Utah, he has made conquests in medical equipment, real estate, genomics and the Internet, and in the process has become a very rich man.

Both sides did make conquests beyond the border, but in time the balance was almost always restored.

Yet when kings make conquests, devastation is apt to follow.

395 BCE Himilco, (died 395 bc) Carthaginian general who twice made conquests of the Greeks in Sicily that brought him to the gates of Syracuse and twice had his momentum broken by plague among his soldiers.

Timur's objective in Anatolia had been not conquest but rather a secure western flank that would enable him to make further conquests in the east.

Bayezid never was able to use that situation to make new conquests in Europe, because the rise of revolts in eastern Anatolia occupied much of his attention during the last years of his reign.

During the first half of the century, Russia made substantial conquests in Asia.

Islam, he points out, has made "permanent conquests in every part of the world into which it has expanded with only three exceptions: Spain, Sicily, and certain parts of the Balkans": three areas where Islamic fanaticism was confronted with opposing fanaticism.

It was therefore only during the long reign of his son and successor, Süleyman I (ruled 1520 66), called "the Magnificent" in Europe and "the Lawgiver" (Kanuni) among the Ottomans, that the foundations laid by Selim were fully used to establish the classical Ottoman state and society and to make important new conquests in the East and West.