Sentence examples for vanquished over from inspiring English sources

In 1908, in his essay "The Three Plastic Virtues," poet and critic Guillaume Apollinaire argued that "the three plastic virtues, [of] purity, unity, and truth" had "triumphantly vanquished over nature" in Cubism.

Lying at the end of the King's Highway, these magnificent monuments are only part of a much larger story of one path's might; a tale of wars won and lost, and civilisations that rose to glory and then were vanquished over whom held sway over a road.

The Red Raiders reaffirmed that status with a rigorous beating of the Cowboys (8-2, 4-2), vanquishing skepticism over Tech's status as a national player.

By dead I mean teams whose chances of reaching the playoffs are over -- crushed, smothered, vanquished.

It's the expression of a love that even in pain is not vanquished, and that is defined here over and again, in darkness and light, in its very essence, by the most powerful of caresses goodbye.

In his younger days as a fireplug-size professional wrestler, he regularly vanquished opponents who towered over him.

China is on the brink of a once-in-a-decade shift in leadership that has not been going well, with a top party official vanquished by a scandal over his wife's murder of an English businessman, and his own grab for power.

Wielding the persuasive weapon of money, Western art dealers and collectors appear to have vanquished ethnologists in the battle over so-called primitive art.

It is at times a grisly account of flowing blood and piles of skulls after a battle was over and the vanquished were sacrificed.

The Duke used his authority as the man who had vanquished Napoleon to resist change, but over the next decade, the violence increased.

Though the long persecution by the Greek and final defeat of the Syrians lead to the cleansing of the temple and the subsequent miracle the menorah is a symbol of victory over a cruel, but vanquished enemy.