Sentence examples for temporary conquest from inspiring English sources
The Parthian campaign was a costly failure, as was the temporary conquest of Armenia.
Pausanias was one of those Spartans who wanted to see the impetus of the Persian Wars maintained; he conquered much of Cyprus (a temporary conquest) and laid siege to Byzantium.
The British had thought the conquest temporary and administered the island from Madras (Chennai) in southern India.
Even the greatest empires of antiquity learned that conquest was temporary, and for all its might, the N.F.L. knows how to stake a claim and move on.
His conquests proved temporary only, as the Byzantines were gradually evicted by the Venetians and the other Latin lords.
It was probably laid as a military road along the temporary frontier reached in the Roman conquest before ad 47.
Other historians, such as Lowell Harrison, have downplayed the importance of the campaign in the peace negotiations and the outcome of the war, arguing that Clark's "conquest" was little more than a temporary occupation.
"They are symbols of conquest.
"It's the Norman conquest".
The Conquest took second prize.
