Sentence examples for on conquest from inspiring English sources
About the title of this piece: "WHY is Colorado burning?" We know why the ancient Temples burned: At the obvious and material level, they were burned by Imperial armies bent on conquest -- one by the Babylonian Empire, one by the Roman Empire.
The legitimacy of Communist rule is based on conquest over half a century ago.
Will may be bent on conquest, but he also wants to make everyone immortal.
If most religious fanatics were bent on conquest and terror rather than democracy, their causes would be easier to discredit.
A large Danish army came to East Anglia in the autumn of 865, apparently intent on conquest.
The settlement of the US was based on conquest, not just of the indigenous peoples, but also of the terrain.
That may sound tough, but that one-on-one animal conquest is incredibly inefficient.
As well as being Bond's first on-screen conquest, Sylvia Trench is the only one of Bond's girlfriends to appear in another film.
Male sexuality, by contrast, is assumed by most people to be a constant: hard and emotionless, often violent, focused on the conquest of women, on penetration, on dominance.
His only full-length later play was the artistically worthless but popular patriotic melodrama Pizarro (1799), based on a German play on the conquest of Peru.
We have to fight against the hypocrisy of the governments, which, while talking about peace and justice, actually carry on wars of conquest and plunder.
