Last year, I was sent a phone image of a rapper, naked but for his trademark woolly hat, sprawled out on a conquest's bed in gentle, postcoital sleep.
For example, protagonist Cher sets her sights on a conquest, much like Emma does with Frank Weston, but instead of her target being in a secret relationship, he turns out to be... gay.
That may sound tough, but that one-on-one animal conquest is incredibly inefficient.
Normally this would be right in the wheelhouse of this restless libertine, but Valmont has already set his sights on a tougher conquest, the devout Madame de Tourvel (Jina Djemba).
Have they too found battling Sky less easy-peasy than they expected, just like the US cable giants who counted on a straightforward conquest of Blighty back in the 90s? ✒Is Paul Mason already tiring of a job that mostly entails mingling with bankers, businessmen, finance ministers and wonks, and just occasionally watching Eurozone riots in a gas mask?
Yet, despite Brzezinski's admission, Washington's entire political spectrum continued to embrace his original false narrative that the Soviets had embarked on a world conquest.
Hermann Göring insisted on a full conquest as he needed the Dutch airfields against Britain; also he was afraid the Entente might reinforce Fortress Holland after a partial defeat and use the airfields to bomb German cities and troops.
The country was on a "march of conquest, subjugation and terror", he said.
This is a welcome twist, one of the pitiable things about the 007 franchise being its fixation on global conquest — a cheesy homage, I often think, to the ubiquity of the Bond brand itself.
In 772 the Frankish ruler Charlemagne decided on a campaign of conquest and conversion of the Saxons.
Before a choice could be made the Pathan hillmen, with the encouragement of Pakistan, plunged across the border on a mission of conquest and pillage.
