But when he psychs out possible conquests, his telepathic insights drip with hostility.
"This slavery, this unspeakable sum of suffering, misery and death, Michel wrote in his book Dora (1979) "... made possible the conquest of space".
Higher civilization owes its existence to warfare in that culture is a product of prosperity, and leisure is made possible by conquest.
The Roman road system made possible Roman conquest and administration and later provided highways for the great migrations into the empire and a means for the diffusion of Christianity.
If you are looking at a lovely woman and considering her as a possible sexual conquest, you are not able to experience her beauty in the fullest or purest sense; you are distracted from the form as represented in your experience.
Next, the key city of Aleppo submitted to Zangī's authority to secure military protection against a possible Frankish Crusader conquest.
One could not speak of discovery as if the lands had been previously uninhabited; thus the only possible justification for conquest might be the protection of the innocent from cannibalism and human sacrifice.
Moreover, as this change occurred prior to the Arab invasion of Sicily in AD 827, the environmental processes may help to explain the collapse of Byzantine society on Sicily which, in turn made the Muslim conquest possible.
It was also an act directed at some of the people who, in his mind, were making the conquest possible: liberals or, more specifically, the Labor Party.
That's actually more glorious than it sounds, because it was only the Persians' ability to build such good roads - a new technology at the time - that made the conquest possible.
He believed that the Manchu conquest was made possible by faulty government and education, which had rendered China easy prey to alien conquerors.
