Sentence examples for scale of conquest from inspiring English sources

The story of "Gold!" is largely one of crime on a gigantic scale, of conquest fueled by a greed that even Michael Douglas's Gordon Gecko in "Wall Street" might shrink from, of mass murder and destruction and often slavery, all inspired by a lust for gold.

In 1282, war with Wales broke out again; this time it would not be simply a punitive campaign, but a full-scale war of conquest.

After suppressing a minor rebellion in Wales in 1276 77, Edward responded to a second rebellion in 1282 83 with a full-scale war of conquest.

Admittedly, these cases of theft are much more recent, not on the appalling scale of the Spanish crown's conquest and plunder of Latin American treasure hundreds of years ago.

Wars then take place between states, and the process of conquest and assimilation occurs again, on a larger scale.

This man wields women's looks as a cudgel, diminishing their worth and credibility based on his scale of beauty; he boasts about how conquests bolster a man's success; and he uses the topic of menstruation as a weapon.

"They are symbols of conquest.

Roman Days: The Age of Conquest.

We have five copies of Conquest!

"The futility of conquest in business mirrors the futility of conquest in war," he writes.

This is not just a region of conquest; it is a region of unrelenting conquest.