Sentence examples for vanquish from inspiring English sources

This country possesses a rich philosophy, language and tradition of liberty and democratic life that confront and vanquish the bleak model presented by Hobbes.

If Bosnia is to be held together, the West will have to vanquish not only Mr Karadzic, but also his friends.

The pope was taken on a detour to the town of Quneitra, flattened by the Israelis in their partial withdrawal from the Golan Heights, and called upon to bless the president's vision of a Christian-Islamic alliance to vanquish the common threat of colonising Jews.Damascus's Jewish quarter lies off the Street Called Straight but was left unvisited by the popemobile.

Mr Obama believes that for all its horrors and rising death tolls, the fight between rebels and Syria's president, Bashar Assad, is a stalemate: neither side can vanquish the other militarily.

This is good news, but RTS,S will not vanquish malaria by itself.There were, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), about 200m cases of malaria around the world in 2010, with 660,000 deaths, 90% of which were in Africa, mostly of young children.

The flat tone is at once sincere and disingenuous: Ms Heti's deadpan, naked voice is what makes Sheila's journey so engaging.In this section How the weak vanquish the strong Stay focused Forty years on Charmingly insufferable Games of perception The self stripped ReprintsMs Heti also captures the malaise of young, creative types.

It's a debacle, and strong evidence for Stephen Holmes's argument that the Putin regime, far from a latter-day revanche of efficient Soviet central command, is a dysfunctional and disintegrating mess.As for China, the vote is yet another in a series of recent strikes against the notion that Chinese "soft power" was poised to vanquish American hard power in the developing world.