Sentence examples for vanquished against from inspiring English sources

IT must get exhausting, inventing monstrous evils year in and year out, especially the sort of ancient, supernatural forces that start by insinuating themselves into the fabric of everyday life and grow to threaten everything sane and decent before being vanquished, against all odds, by a valiant band of unlikely heroes.

It just might be against the team he vanquished, as a member of the Denver Broncos, in last season's playoffs.

But much of the rumbling in the hallways was of grudges' being lovingly nursed and of potshots' being fired against liberal enemies long ago vanquished.

26) 3. OVERTIME WIN SETS UP REMATCH FOR GIANTS The Giants engineered a 20-17 victoverover the 49ers that sent them into the Super Bowl against the Patriots, the team they vanquished in 2008.

Of the teams vanquished by SKC, Vancouver will try to regroup against a Dallas side buoyed by last week's victory over Montreal, while the two Western conference leaders meet on Saturday night.

In Act IV, Scene I, the Third Apparition tells Shakespeare's Macbeth he will never be vanquished "until Great Birnam wood... shall come against him".

In the forty years that Rabbi Naphtali Sencyminer had waged war against evil spirits, he sooner or later vanquished them all.

The New Yorker, May 24 , 1976P. 38 In the forty years that Rabbi Naphtali Sencyminer had waged war against evil spirits, he sooner or later vanquished them all.

She convinces him to join her as a guide to a group of… In the forty years that Rabbi Naphtali Sencyminer had waged war against evil spirits, he sooner or later vanquished them all.

Apparently moved to tears, he roared in triumph at the crowd and described the election as a battle for survival against a dangerous foe who had now been vanquished.

It will be child's play to pit one against the other, and they will all be vanquished, one by one.