Sentence examples for were able to conquer from inspiring English sources

Within a remarkably short time, General Bonaparte and his small expeditionary force were able to conquer, occupy, and rule the country.

The real reason the Spanish were able to conquer the Americas was that they had guns and syphilis, against which the indigenous peoples had sticks and no antibodies.

That it wasn't easy, that they were able to conquer some things that are hard to conquer, which is mostly in your mind".

The idea came from Jared Diamond's book "Guns, Germs and Steel," which argues that Europeans were able to conquer other nations in part because of their greater immunity to disease.

Following his lead, the Americans Walter Reed, William Gorgas, and others were able to conquer the scourge of yellow fever in Panama and made possible the completion of the Panama Canal by reducing the death rate there from 176 per 1,000 to 6 per 1,000.

Then with the Christians gone, the Syrians were able to conquer Egypt themselves.

Together, we might be able to conquer it.

Any obstacle we face we'll be able to conquer".

But, he added, "I'll never be able to conquer some of those things".

I wanted to be able to conquer that hill by the end of the month.

"They may be able to conquer but they cannot rule," she says.