Sentence examples for vanquishing him from inspiring English sources

He advises his father on the triumphant 88 election: perennially driven by a conflicted, almost Oedipal need to earn his dad's respect by helping him, but also by vanquishing him.

6 Sextius went after him and had hopes of soon vanquishing him, especially with the aid of Arabio's horse, but he became suspicious p267 of Arabio and treacherously murdered him, after which he accomplished nothing further at that time, for the cavalry, enraged at Arabio's death, left Sextius in the lurch and most of them took the side of Fango.

However, when Issun gets everyone to believe in Amaterasu before the fifth and final round, she changes into her most powerful form and battles Yami, vanquishing him forever.

Vanquishing him, Juste escapes the castle together with Maxim and Lydie, whose bite marks disappear by the time she regains consciousness.

She tests his strength, practically vanquishing him at arm wrestling and somehow lifting him into bed one night after he falls asleep on her couch.

Common sense suggests that this hat gesture ought to be slight, yet it vanquishes him.

But in Zahida and other educated young Pakistanis, I've found those who will vanquish him.

Was he the nightmare god — or the renegade chief who finally came to vanquish him?

The fifth seed, Daryl Gurney, became the latest big name to be dumped out, as Jamie Lewis vanquished him to evoke memories of 2017.

When Crassus swings his sword in a two-handed style like that of Jimmy Connors and Spartacus vanquishes him with contempt, the action builds.

The overture gave every appearance of being an exceptionally generous offer to share power with the man who had vanquished him.