Sentence examples for were vanquished by from inspiring English sources

But even entire literary and linguistic cultures of great sophistication were vanquished by the predominance of English.

If Baal triumphed, a seven-year cycle of fertility would ensue; but, if he were vanquished by Mot, seven years of drought and famine would ensue.

This South Downs summit is adorned by Bronze Age barrows known as the Devil's Humps, which legend has it house the remains of Viking leaders who were vanquished by Chichester locals.

By phone from Washington Ms. Stamberg said her last-minute jitters about doing live television were vanquished by a call from Daniel Striped Tiger, one of Mr. Rogers's puppet characters.

The fates of Hearts and Celtic, so divergent on a night when Barcelona were vanquished by some shrewd play and the kind of raucous atmosphere that shook the soul, are indicative of the game's underlying health.

And thus, ironically, the Fujiwara, who for three centuries had eschewed violence and who had looked down contemptuously on the crude, unlettered warrior, were vanquished by violence and replaced as rulers by the very objects of their contempt.

Then they could be vanquished by denying them the whole.

Subsequently, Cronus was vanquished by Zeus and was forced to disgorge the swallowed children.

It is the tyrant to be vanquished by civilisation: "We are not born free".

Its Multiplan spreadsheet having been vanquished by Lotus 1-2-3, Microsomethingted somethingraphicalandand better.

until he was vanquished by the repeated reply: there was no one...