Sentence examples for vanquished at from inspiring English sources

In the form of biography this category includes Graves's Count Belisarius and Hope Muntz's Golden Warrior (on Harold II, vanquished at the Battle of Hastings, 1066).

They'd lost just once all season and, to top it off, Manchester United had just been vanquished at Old Trafford in the FA Cup.

Although Franz Kindler is quite satisfyingly vanquished at the end of "The Stranger," Welles's wider implications are clear: The war in Europe may be over, but the struggle at home still has a long way to go.

Could the NBA season really end like this, with the Miami Heat, who looked absolutely invincible for most of the regular season, vanquished at home by the ancient San Antonio Spurs?

Six more times in the next decade, Red Auerbach's famous victory cigar was lit after the Lakers (re-planted to LA) were vanquished at the very last, the upper hand very much held in Beantown.

Even at our most vainglorious moment, it would be a mistake for us to think that all racism was vanquished at the moment an African-American was elected to the White House.

It may even be a historic book, one with which gay history can arm itself with more sufficient factual veracity as to start vanquishing at last the devil known as queer studies.

The encounter between the victor and the vanquished came at the end of a "fiscal responsibility summit" at the White House.

There were raucous scenes at the final whistle as Cardiff supporters celebrated their first home win at this level since a West Ham United team containing Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters were vanquished 3-0 at Ninian Park in 1962.

He said that the result of this war might be something that neither the victors nor the vanquished could at that time foresee.

For horror films aren't about real pain; they have villains we know will be vanquished or at least beaten back before resurrecting for a sequel.