Sentence examples for vanquished half from inspiring English sources

Britain once vanquished half the world, and the adjustment to being a country at the second rank of power has always rankled insofar as it has been acknowledged at all.

Gods strike down giants on the east front, Greeks triumph over Amazons on the west and Trojans on the north, and men vanquish the half-human, half-horse centaurs on the south.

Malky Mackay paid tribute to Cardiff's players, staff and supporters after a "tough four weeks" and pointedly avoided any mention of the owner, Vincent Tan, after Steven Caulker's second-half header vanquished a disappointing Swansea side.

Or, if you don't, it's a flat out lie.It is a blatant display of bigotry and racist defiance that symbolizes slavery and black oppression and is a direct slap in the face of blacks a century and a half after the South was vanquished on the battlefield?

And that will happen because Kentucky overcame a 13-point second-half deficit, endured three grueling overtimes and vanquished its history so that its star-crossed fans could finally have a celebratory shot of bourbon in the parking lot instead of drowning their sorrows.

Those separate episodes pointed to a common conclusion: the way the past is depicted helps mold the founding myths and taboos of national identity, enabling successor generations to live with their past; history, in other words, is a time bomb, and its fuse burns brightest in the half-light of competing versions where truth has different meanings for victor and vanquished.

This mishmash of cultures is the legacy of a double dose of imperialism, by the US in the first half of the 20th century and, preceding them, the Spanish, who, as in Cuba, were vanquished by the Americans in 1898 after almost 400 years of colonial rule.

Taobao has vanquished eBay in China, capturing nearly 80% market share with $60 billion worth of online sales last year; close to half of all parcels shipped within China are from Taobao transactions, say government statistics, and, as a result, Alibaba Group and partners are investing billions of dollars in logistics.

The other half were leftist positions, many of them backed by the long-governing Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which he vanquished on Sunday night.

Sunburn vanquished like smallpox.

The bears are vanquished.