Sentence examples for were to conquer from inspiring English sources

Among the invaders from the Aegean basin were the Philistines, who were to conquer much of the region within a century and a half after their settlement in the southern coastal plain.

If China were to conquer Taiwan, the U.S.-Japan security alliance would be demolished.

If I were to conquer those penned-in pessimistic thoughts and feelings, those forces of aggravation, that were eating away at me, I had to identify exactly what they were.

Supposedly, our choice in Afghanistan is to conquer or pacify.

The achievement of civilisation has been to conquer nature.

And they always contain an argument with history, because to live forever is to conquer time as much as it is to conquer death.

Mankind's dream has been to conquer ageing altogether, and scientists are working on it.

One of its leaders was Frederick I Barbarossa, whose avowed intention was to conquer Constantinople.

His response to a longer and more challenging Augusta National Golf Club was to conquer it -- again.

You experience a revelation: your calling is to conquer new audiences.

"If I was going to keep swimming, it was to conquer that feeling of being overly stressed.