Sentence examples for vanquished state from inspiring English sources

Historically, unconditional surrenders -- in which the vanquished state is so defeated that it has ceased to be an independent political entity -- happen only rarely.

Fellers warns MacArthur that the Japanese, even in their vanquished state, will rise up if the emperor is executed.

In spring 2006, Pedro Espada Jr., then a vanquished state senator from the Bronx who oversaw a sprawling, multimillion-dollar health care network, wrote to federal authorities demanding that they investigate his chief rival.

In that unlikely success, Tarantino's genre exercise has some company: Last summer's campy comedy "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" did something similar, when the "Railsplitter" burst forth as an ax-wielding superhero who vanquished a Confederate States of America that turned out to be populated by voracious, bloodsucking freaks of nature.

Any suspicion of a shallow or incidental connection to the state was vanquished by the claim that her forebears "came here in the 1850s and were literally part of the pioneers who felled the trees and created the greatness that is Iowa".

Like the college student, I'm too young to have seen the terrifying wars of 1948 , 1967and 1973, when Arab armies threatened to vanquish the Jewish state.

It was an act of self-defense in the face of blood-curdling threats to vanquish the Jewish state, not to mention the maritime blockade of the Straits of Tiran, the abrupt withdrawal of UN peacekeeping forces, and the redeployment of Egyptian and Syrian troops.

A stomach virus she had brought from the States was finally vanquished after a couple of days with an I.V. in her arm, but Ina was taking no chances with the crisp winter air, with her long-awaited homecoming so far from home.

But terrorist organizations are not nation-states that can be vanquished in conventional war.

Then I remember that I do not pray because I do not believe, and realise that beneath this wondrous golden ceiling I have eased into another state and mystery has not been vanquished after all.

With these threats duly vanquished, the health care reform law now confronts a diffuse state-by-state, bureaucrat-by-bureaucrat battle to reach the ordinary Americans hoping for health care coverage.