Sentence examples for violent conquest from inspiring English sources

Sensuous carvings resembling elephant tusks and the long necks of decapitated swans are studded with knobs, further eroticizing the theme of violent conquest.

The violent conquest of the country and the harsh regime imposed by the Taliban, the ethnic cleansing of the Hazara population who were being persecuted for their Shi'a background, and the prolonged drought between 1998 and 2001, caused another outflow of Afghans (Collins, 2011; Jazayery, 2002; Turton & Marsden, 2002).

Native Americans were the first victims of the violent conquest provoked by the Bear Flaggers.

In reality, if the petitioners were truly concerned about sovereign legitimacy, they might begin by asking how many countries in the world today were established by violent conquest.

It matters because the mindset of violent conquest behind these and many other displacements and disruptions has not vanished with the passage of time.

He drafted a suggestion for an amendment arguing that the laws against slavery were formulated in such a way that it presupposed that violent conquest would still be carried out, and he encouraged once again beginning a phase of peaceful colonization by peasants instead of soldiers.

And within its collections is the story of a vast empire -- its vibrant culture and religious devotion, as well as its violent conquests.

The one seeks violent conquests; the other, the relief of humanity.

Those resisting Assyrian rule were faced with violent military conquest and the dehumanizing experience of exile.

Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas arrived in the colony of Guatemala in 1537 and immediately campaigned to replace violent military conquest with peaceful missionary work.

We survived a powerful and violent imperial conquest by absorbing into our civilization what was once a foreign religion to India.