"sought to conquer" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a past tense phrase that means to attempt or try to defeat or overcome something or someone. Example: The dictator sought to conquer neighboring countries in order to expand his power and influence.
Adventurers like Livingstone and Scott sought to conquer the earth's natural challenges and sometimes died trying.
Islam sought to conquer the world, or as much of it as it could, yet it was intimately connected to the Arab culture in which it was born.
Excavating the lives of some of the multitudes of Britons held captive in the lands their own rulers sought to conquer, Colley also offers an intimate understanding of the peoples and cultures of the Mediterranean, North America, India, and Afghanistan.
Where the rural settlers of the 19th century sought to conquer wilderness, "urban pioneers" in the 21st century deploy nature as a tool of economic development in a city with a shrinking population and a large spatial footprint.
This caused eyes to roll in Rome, where many Catholic leaders point out that their Muslim counterparts have never expressed regret for the way Islamic armies sought to conquer Europe from the eighth century on.
He was never a Eurosceptic, since he sought to conquer northern France and so extend his European influence, but his claims of national "sovereignty" would have been applauded by Lady Thatcher. Henry VIIIsells well, and his biography is once more up for grabs.
It seeks to control the Near East and it seeks to conquer Russia.
The South did not seek to conquer the North; it merely sought to withdraw.
That she has even come this far is cause for wonderment in the world she is seeking to conquer.
But not every terrain that Uber seeks to conquer is quite so ready for its brand of salvation.
Satyagraha seeks to conquer through conversion: in the end, there is neither defeat nor victory but rather a new harmony.
