How To Use Conquer In A Sentence

They conquered the southern part of the country in a few months.
And if you ever attempt to go forth again to find out new wonders in the world, I shall clasp you round with my arms, as I do now, and keep you prisoner against your will; and if you say 'Farewell' a hundred times to me, I shall blot out that sad word every time with my lips, and put a better one in its place, until my word conquers yours. A Crystal Age
A country which once conquered the commercial world now fails to make the most of the global market place.
Recollecting the day he saw Napoleon on the street, the poet imagines what must be the tumult of thoughts behind Caesar's moveless mask-the cities, the factories, the armies rising in the conqueror's dream of power.
Prayer, and receive the Sacrament every day; because they do not subject and submit themselves wholly and entirely to him that hath Light, nor deny and conquer themselves, nor give up themselves totally to God, with a perfect divesting and disinteresting of themselves: In a word, till the Soul be purified in the Fire of Inward Pain, it will never get to a State of The spiritual guide which disentangles the soul / by Michael de Molinos ; edited with an introduction by Kathleen Lyttelton and a note by H. Scott Holland.

We have conquered the uter space,but not our inner space.
The divided and conquered nature of the country has made it easy for oil to be tapped without raising the ire of countries worldwide.
That was built at about the time William the Conqueror was bonking Anglo-Saxons on the head.
But even with an infinite amount of money, aging could not be conquered.
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
The possible moves being not only manifold but involute, the chances of such oversights are multiplied; and in nine cases out of ten it is the more concentrative rather than the more acute player who conquers. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
He conquered the lands up to Carchemish, but an Egyptian-Hittite treaty signed in 1283, which divided Syria between them, frustrated the Assyrians 'westward movement. E. The Kassites, the Hurrians, and the Arameans
Across the cleric's ascetic features a happy smile slowly and conqueringly spread. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 192-06-30
The conquerors advanced , killing and plundering as they went.
Evidently, for many influentials in world music, the art is a question of conquering and ruling the earth, no less.
Disney's quest is to conquer the worlds of entertainment and leisure.
Instead of an old country there is a continent made up of lands that were divvied up and named by European and Middle Eastern conquerors. Walter Mosley Talks About 47
William the Conqueror, ie King William I of England.
Beauvoir, Alphonse Karr, Émile Souvestre, who, to no small extent individually and to a very great extent when taken in battalion, helped to conquer that supreme reputation for amusingness, for pastime, which the French novel has so long enjoyed throughout Europe. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
This platform sees notable mostly for its platitudinal quality: “conquer unemployment,” “schools that guarantee success for all children” — sure, sounds good to me. Matthew Yglesias » Sarkozy Wins
Suppose we admit that Bernadette was not the shy, simple child we knew her to be; let us endow her with a spirit of intrigue and domination, transform her into a conqueress, a leader of nations, and try to picture what, in that case, would have happened. The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete
We were unwilling to waste energy conquering the high peak.
People neeed some courage in life, just like climbing a cliff .Although there are stemp ahead, you still fell some timorous and dare not go ahead. But when you conquer the timidity and reach the peak, you will feel the importance of courage as you enjoy the beautiful scenes. It is the same with life.
In 279, Jin conquered the Wu regime and unified China. Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)
But his prodigality, which is excessive, after a time brought him to London; and the bishop imagined that, with his help, my scruples would at last be conquered. The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
Conquering new markets while preserving existing ones threatens brand loyalty.
When the Moors conquered most of the known world in the eighth century, they used a special technique to aid their cause.
And here the conquered men of Ind, swarthy horsemen and sword wielders, fiercely barbaric, blazing in crimson and scarlet, Sikhs, Rajputs, Burmese, province by province, and caste by caste. CORONATION DAY
Finally, there is the obsession of mountain climbers to conquer Mt. Everest. The Summit of the Gods Book 1 » Manga Worth Reading
Muslims, instead of being the recipients of more and yet more kinds of aid (that we do not extend to non-Muslims), are forced to start confronting what Islam itself has caused, and what might have been had the "gift of Islam" never arrived in the vast swath of territories that were conquered by the forces of Islam, containing many peoples who found that with Islam came the attempt at arabization. David Horowitz Freedom Center
Difficulties cannot be artificially overcome," said Mirabeau, "nor is there any invention whereby a man may be spared the trouble of conquering them; they must be grasped firmly, strangled, crushed, trampled down in manful fight. Zoe: The History of Two Lives
The Cyrinishad reflects an attempt by the god Cyric to dominate the Realms and conquer the other great deific powers.
This strength, this invincibility, this unconquerable identification caused the Prudential Insurance Company in 1896 to use the Rock as their brand to symbolize a defense from all obstacles.
When it comes to free trade, as Adam Smith once opined, ‘Not only the prejudices of the public, but what is much more unconquerable, the private interests of many individuals, irresistibly oppose it.’
A price is paid for all, yet few delivered; the redemption of all consummated, yet few of them redeemed; the judge satisfied, the jailer conquered, and yet the prisoner inthralled! The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
gentled" him all over his miserable frame, as he lay panting and overpowered on the sawdust, conquered and convinced at last, all his mistakes and misconceptions of other people came before him, as plainly as if Taffy himself had spoken them; so plainly, that he wondered at himself. Parables From Nature
My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
I ended my conversation with Marco by asking which he thought would come first: mankind is conquered by robots of our own design, or the U.S. wins the World Cup? What do the Dutch think of the U.S. national team?
Large incomes were required before titles were awarded, but fiefs and landgrants were carved out of conquered territories in order to endow the new titles.
Yes, you may hit him fair, and make him bleed, too; but, for all that, he is a lion — a mighty, conquering, generous, rampageous Leo Belgicus — monarch of his wood. Roundabout Papers
True love did not conquer all yesterday, to the disappointment of more than one old romantic. Times, Sunday Times
Come in the rearward of a conquered woe.
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. Napoleon Bonaparte
Overseen by evangelist monks Charlemagne's conquering Franks meet fierce resistance from Saxon tribesmen.
A good heart conquers ill fortune.
Sustained by the truth received from her divine Founder, the Church has ever sought to fulfill holily the mission entrusted to her by God; unconquered by the difficulties on all sides surrounding her, she has never ceased to assert her liberty of teaching, and in this way the wretched superstition of paganism being dispelled, the wide world was renewed unto Christian wisdom. Libertas Praestantissimum
That same year another daimyo, also with shogunal consent, led an expedition to Taiwan to explore the possibilities of setting up a trading center there, although nothing came of the attempt. 43 In 1616, a Japanese merchant-adventurer named Murayama Toan (村山東庵) sent thirteen junks to conquer Taiwan. 44 They were ambushed in a creek by headhunters and decided to give up on Taiwan and instead pillage the Chinese coast. How Taiwan Became Chinese
The next big step in our effort to conquer space was the launch of the space shuttle in 1981.
It has been assumed by some people, especially those with an interest in discrediting George Marshall and the Truman administration, that this truce prevented Chiang from conquering Manchuria .
And the all-conquering Coolmore team hold her in high regard. The Sun
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. Rabindranath Tagore
A Scottish doctor has died in a climbing accident on Mont Blanc, moments after fulfilling his dream to conquer the mountain.
They made clear that the US aimed to conquer the country and install a military proconsul - along the lines of General MacArthur's six and a half-year rule in Japan - before handing it over to a puppet government.
They had been waiting for thousands of years, waiting as their land and kingdom had been handed off from one conquering empire to another. Christianity Today
People neeed some courage in life, just like climbing a cliff .Although there are stemp ahead, you still fell some timorous and dare not go ahead. But when you conquer the timidity and reach the peak, you will feel the importance of courage as you enjoy the beautiful scenes. It is the same with life.
In 1922 Greek armies trying to conquer western Anatolia were routed by Turkey's military leader, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
The district known as the Laveroch remained unconquered during the time of Henry II, Richard still did not subdue it, as he lost more men in its vastness than he did fighting.
Quickly adapting these devices into disintegrator weapons, they conquer the surface world, sparing only those who resemble them. Cheeseburger Gothic » Well that was AWSM!
He says he has united the Germanic Tribes, and the hordes of Iberia, Italia, and Britannica, in a full wave to conquer all.
Nowadays it is more fashionable to have been a conquered people, rather than a nation of all-conquering warriors. 1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
People neeed some courage in life, just like climbing a cliff .Although there are stemp ahead, you still fell some timorous and dare not go ahead. But when you conquer the timidity and reach the peak, you will feel the importance of courage as you enjoy the beautiful scenes. It is the same with life.
Perceval departed from the castle, and gave thanks to Our Lord and praise, that He hath allowed him to conquer a castle so cruel and to attorn it to the Law. The High History of the Holy Graal
We and the cinema must first conquer the DVD as a medium which serves the furthest peripheries of image production as much as the centre, the dissidents as much as the mainstream.
The direct transfer of wealth and material from conquered peoples, as practised by the Romans, the British, and even the Russians after 1945, just hasn't happened.
James always had his sights set firmly on conquering the mountain and prior to the climb the spirited and adventuresome youngster trained for five weeks in the Commeragh mountains.
Conquering the great monster with patience, courage, skill and intellect hearkens back to their ancient mythology, providing a link to the past and a way for the future.
The band is now setting out to conquer the world.
He gazed at the beautiful mountain that so many climbers had attempted to conquer; some had succeeded and many did not.
He has arrived with his virtually unconquerable army and besieged Jerusalem.
Modernist architecture tries to conquer nature instead of working with it.
Force cannot permanently conquer, but kindness and protection for the people can. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
You are the conqueror of my people, our subjugator. Dragons of a Fallen Sun
Camden society what the old church at Jamestown probably was, may be seen the tomb of a Tazewell, who died in 1706, on which is engraved the coat of arms of the family, -- a lion rampant, bearing a helmet with a vizor closed on his back; an escutcheon, which is evidently of Norman origin, and won by some daring feat of arms, and which could only have been held by one of the conquering race. Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell
It starts with a steepish mogul field which, once conquered, boosts the confidence.
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. Napoleon Bonaparte
The working class had seized the initiative in 1917 and had boldly conquered political power.
Not impossibly there was a resistance movement in the Fens, as later under William the Conqueror, and ecclesiastics became involved.
The ending is very powerful and about love conquering all. The Sun
The attacks of the Germanic Cimbri and Teutones were still fresh in memory, northern Gaul had not yet been conquered by Caesar - all the bad things always came over the Alps. HH Com 476
When Egypt became a Turkish pashalic, Selim, the conqueror, compelled the representative of the Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature
But love conquers all, and thanks to this series, we we're all well aware that breaking your parents' hearts is fine if you're in love with a vampire man-child, which only a handful of us are.
In the 1814 plan there was no hope to reconquer the United States, but with a British army firmly ensconced in the interior of New York, amid what the British yet again assumed was a sympathetic population, the Americans might have to concede a more southerly border for the Canadian provinces, if not in New York, then perhaps in Maine. Between War and Peace
These generous expressions were not lost on Betty; on the contrary, they soothed her so much that she gave her hand cordially to her young and interesting conqueress, after which they all repaired to a supper of new milk and flummery, than which there is nothing more delicious within the wide range of luxury. The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. Dale Carnegie
Unfortunately, this kindly pledge is not forthcoming in the case of the third R, arithmetic, for in mathematics, virtually every time you turn your brain around they challenge or, maybe better said, taunt you with a new potentially ego-threatening subskill to conquer. A Mind at a Time
This, however, was no unwonted mood of passion with Darsie Latimer, upon whom Cupid was used to triumph only in the degree of a Mahratta conqueror, who overruns a province with the rapidity of lightning, but finds it impossible to retain it beyond a very brief space. Redgauntlet
Clive conquered and organized Bengal for the East India Company He first went to Madras as a clerk in 1743 and by 1749 had won the lucrative appointment of military commissary.
About the year 1728 the territory now known as Dahomey was subject to three native dynasties, one of which at that date conquered the other two and set up its own despotism under the present territorial designation. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
The fire by this time had conquered all before it, and at seven o'clock in the morning the roof fell in with a terrible crash, shooting up into the sky fierce tongues of fire and myriads of burning sparks.
Before the Macedonian conqueror passed away, he left detailed funeral instructions, including - among other things - that he be embalmed in honey through a process known as "mellification. NPR Topics: News
Such a failure suggests that being divided individual JCRs are unable to conquer the ever more united efforts by college bursars to mount a uniform offensive on subsidisation.
The Germans had plans to invade and conquer Africa, and for this they needed detailed studies and information.
Owing to the unusual number of showers of stones which had fallen during the year, an inspection had been made of the Sibylline Books, and some oracular verses had been discovered which announced that whenever a foreign foe should carry war into Italy he could be driven out and conquered if the Mater Idaea were brought from Pessinus to Rome. The History of Rome, Vol. IV
Jesus is coming this time not as a helpless baby in a manger, not as a man of sorrows, but as victor and conqueror to claim his own.
The birds in the aviary, not to be left behind, revelled in their own little way in quenching their thirst and conquering the heat.
The first world war brought a conquering South African army. Times, Sunday Times
John Ford's classic western, starring John Wayne, is a political allegory about how ‘civilisation’ managed to conquer America's Wild West.
He wrote heartfelt petrarchan sonnets extolling his employers, and in 1551 wrote awestruck from the reconquered Pisa, while painting the ducal children: "I am continually with these most saintly sovereigns, and I rejoice in the blessed sweetness of so good and benign a prince. Bronzino's Medici portraits – review
The ceremony of the gilded man supposedly ended in the late 15th century when El Dorado and his subjects were conquered by another tribe.
He is a role model who conquered adversity, remained in school, and now looks forward to a promising future.
These Begilans are ruthless and will stop at nothing to conquer the whole Universe,’ a Councilor's voice rasped out.
One may overcome a thousand men in battle, but he who conquers himself is the greatest victor.
On an apparent level, this work concerns the intellectual and technical challenges of conquering isorhythmic complexities.
But Napoleon was above all a dynast and conqueror: what he required from subject territories was men and money.
In less than a decade it had conquered almost the entire peninsula. Times, Sunday Times
One may overcome a thousand men in battle, but he who conquers himself is the greatest victor.
The Black Blade Wars lasted nine years, during which time Kharndam kept the madness from spreading outside of the Protectorates by refusing to recognize any of the self-proclaimed kings of that land and resisting any overbold attempts to conquer additional lands from their crown. The Codex Continual » Kharndam Guide: The Phendarm Protectorates
Yet this notion was conquered by a stronger urge I could not deny.
The Public Affairs 2. o blog asks if MEPs will follow Obama's example in conquering Facebook: Archive 2008-06-01
Her brain willed her fingers to conquer their heaviness, their farawayness, and write: Captivity
He descended into the lists, and commanded them to unhelm the conquered champion. Ivanhoe
Having risen to power in 1369, Timur had taken over the Chaghadai khanate, conquered the Kipchak khanate, and, with his capital in Samarkand, was in the process of rebuilding the Mongolian Empire. D. The Early Ming
The only way to put that defeat right will be to conquer Europe again. The Sun
Be ready to come home exhausted, having given it your all for three straight weeks and possibly still not conquered the summit.
The king tried to keep the conquered people down.
But nowe pryde, covetyse and envye han so enflawmed the hertes of lordes of the world, that thei are more besy for to disherite here neyghbores, more than for to chalenge or to conquere here righte heritage before seyd. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Such, sir, are you by general confession; such are the things achieved by you, the greatest and most glorious of our countrymen, the director of our public councils, the leader of unconquered armies, the father of your country; for by that title doss every good man hail you with sincere and voluntary praise. Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
Your liege William the Conqueror, the duke of Normandy, is ready to invade England.
It's brash, lively and moves along at a cracking pace - but it's not the all-conquering success that its hype suggests.
When one day, a Persian conqueror -- Cyrus -- entered the precincts of E-Sagila, his first step was to acknowledge Marduk and Nabu as the supreme powers in the world; and the successors of Alexander continue to glory in the title 'adorner of The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
All day long they're told how great they are by the fans and the media alike, they're treated like conquering heroes, and they hear the word repeat'' uttered at least 30 times a day in various contexts. CNN.com
The band is now setting out to conquer the world.
Close by was St Leonard's Priory, a Benedictine nunnery founded in the time of William the Conqueror, and mentioned by Geoffrey Chaucer in the prologue to his Canterbury Tales.
This nomadic horde on horses is supposed to have ‘conquered’ a civilization covering an area of almost 800,000 square kilometers.
In the 1814 plan there was no hope to reconquer the United States, but with a British army firmly ensconced in the interior of New York, amid what the British yet again assumed was a sympathetic population, the Americans might have to concede a more southerly border for the Canadian provinces, if not in New York, then perhaps in Maine. Between War and Peace
In 480 BC, Athens lay in ruins conquered by the seemingly unstoppable Persian Empire.
Here is the one who could unite interests and conquer problems, and yet, he isn't really a choice at all.
Now, of course their are material resources to be had in Gaul, and this provides a reason for conquest - for who wants to conquer a barren land?
A: The most challenging was definitely in conquering fear, facing this great daunting task of writing a novel and making it the best it could possibly be. Diana Evans discusses 26a
Reliques he had left behind him, I meane the Friars hood and Cowle, which shewing to their sister, and sharpely reproving her unwomanly behaviour: they left her in no meane discomfort, returning home to their owne houses, with their conquered spolle of the forlorne The Decameron
He guides himself with his well-adapted nose, and is hoping to conquer Mont Blanc next. RESCUING ROSE
There are only two powers in the world, the sword and the pen; and in the end the former is always conquered by the latter.
Maybe consider cultivating people who are childless, or… you might give some thought to conquering this phobia with professional help.
They are here to toast the success of rapper Tinie Tempah, and then – in the words of his all-conquering first hit – pass out. Tinie Tempah – review
Now he possessed the power over southeast Europe, with the exception of Constantinople, which still remained unconquered.
Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach. Stephen Hawking: Avoid Contact With Aliens | Impact Lab
Edward Jenner, a British physician, abandoned the quest for a cure and conquered the disease by finding a way to prevent it.
As for Italy, though Mehmed sent an invasion force to southern Italy in 1480, he died the following year with his dream of conquering Rome unrealised.
Nor were they going to the Khyber pass, but to Jalalabad, which, along with the Kandahar garrison, remained unconquered.
Crushed into self, and his own conscience and _schema mundi_, he loses the opportunity of correcting his impression of the voice of God within, by the testimony of the voice of God without; and so he begins to mistake more and more the voice of that very flesh of his, which he fancies he has conquered, for the voice of God, and to become, without knowing it, an autotheist. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
By 1957, another dread disease was all but conquered: acute anterior poliomyelitis, which might cripple for life those it did not kill.
After Adam had sinned, and brought death upon himself and his descendants, God gave the promise that a man born of woman should conquer the power of Satan and Sin.
DENVER -- La reconquista, a radical movement calling for Mexico to "reconquer" America's Southwest, has stepped out of the shadows at recent immigration-reform protests nationwide as marchers held signs saying, "Uncle Sam Stole Our Land!" and waved Mexico's flag. From On High
I ask himI appeal to his better judgment nowwhat does he imagine we intend to do, if fortunately we conquer Tennessee or South Carolinacall it conquer, if you will, sirwhat do we propose to do? His Reply to Breckenridge
In the early eighth century, a Muslim army of Arabs and North African Berbers conquered much of the Iberian Peninsula.
Thus, through the hands of Dumouriez, may Rouget de Lille, in figurative speech, be said to have gained, miraculously, like another Orpheus, by his Marseillese fiddle-strings (fidibus canoris) a Victory of Jemappes; and conquered the Low Countries. The French Revolution
ROME, her treatment of conquered Latium, 314; her noble "bloods" lost, 338; she rebukes America, 392. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
The Romans gradually assimilated the culture of the people they had conquered.
-- [MS. M.] [oc] {404} _Love from her duties -- still a conqueress in the war_. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
We must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.
“Chechen,” most experts agreed, was a term chosen by Russian colonists after the name of a local village that, ironically, bore the name of thirteenth century Mongol conqueror. The Return
Fortunately, the powers of friendship, redemption and the spirit of Christmas conquer all.
Force cannot permanently conquer, but kindness and protection for the people can. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity
Democacy enables multitudinous citizen enlist, which benefit for conquering the limitation of a few experts.
faced unconquerable difficulties
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. Nelson Mandela
Realising that I'd circumnavigated my way around all of the exhibits, there was only one hurdle left to conquer.
Wicked King Miraz plans to conquer Narnia, forcing the rightful heir Prince Caspian to flee.
We have seen that one of Lees designs in crossing the Potomac was to give the people of Maryland an opportunity of liberating themselves; he accordingly issued an address to them declaring that the South had watched with deepest sympathy their wrongs and had seen with profound indignation their sister State deprived of every right and reduced to the condition of a conquered province. Chapter IV
You, as the sole survivor, are charged with conquering this dark force. The Sun
Emperor Justinian reconquered North Africa and part of Italy, making Ravenna the western capital, but his success was shortlived.
With foreign soldiers planted in different parts of the peninsula, the threat of brute, conquering force was often in the air. The Times Literary Supplement
Strength of iron flowing in her veins allow her to conquer agony.
Some are the personal armies of aspiring warlords, out to conquer as much territory as they can and hold it by force.
‘I felt this market was conquerable,’ he responds, ‘so I was on my white horse trying to prove I could sell through this.’
Claudius himself came over in the year 43, and his generals afterwards went on with the war, conquering one after another of the British chiefs, Caradoc, whom the Romans called Caractacus, holding out the longest and the most bravely. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
Ancient empires typically demanded tribute from the conquered. One World, Under God
Establishing themselves first in the highly competitive Cork music scene, they then went north to Dublin to conquer the capital.
But if the stiff-necked transgressors cannot be persuaded, they can be cowed and conquered.
He conquered the Sudan and quelled a rebellion in Greece.
After the murder of his father Karzai inherited the title khan ( "head") of the 500,000-strong Popolzai — the Pashtoon clan of Ahmad Shah Durrani, the Persian army commander who conquered the southern Afghan city of Kandahar and in 1747 became the first king of Afghanistan. The Lawless Frontier
And shall yet conquer!" cried Lennox, kindling with the enthusiasm that blazed from the eyes of Wallace. The Scottish Chiefs
Alfonso I and his son Sancho I reconquered the remaining Portuguese territory from the Muslims.
Tyrtaeus this commoner of Nizhni Novgorod spurs on his troops of freedom-loving heroes to conquer, as it were, the placid, self - satisfied literatures of to-day, and bring new life to pale, bloodless frames. The Man Who Was Afraid
Jezreel: for there the battle was, -- at least, if that may be called a battle, where there was not one sword unsheathed by the conqueror. From the Talmud and Hebraica
It was in the year 711 that the Moor first landed in Spain, and, setting up the Crescent against the Cross, he had in a short time established himself and almost conquered the Land that had withstood Rome at the zenith of her power; but the Visigoth was a sturdy stock and in the mountain sections he withstood the new invader and maintained himself. The Old Dominion
The hypnotic approach to ending procrastination is similar to that for conquering Writer's Block: a combination of rooting out the cause and positive post-hypnotic suggestions.
Her feet, however, are still clad in her disposable hospital slippers, a last holdout of unconquered territory. THE SAVAGE GIRL
The majolica could, perhaps, have been intended to grace a Spanish grandee's table in a conquered England.
Such is her commitment to conquering her problem that she regularly goes twice a day to group counselling
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
One may overcome a thousand men in battle, but he who conquers himself is the greatest victor.
There is no possibility of explaining the system of life in this world, on any principle of _conqueringly_ Divine benevolence. Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
In terms of Conan's history, ` The Hour of the Dragon '(which was later reprinted under the title Conan the Conqueror) is the final story in the sequence. The Conan Chronicles
The ending is very powerful and about love conquering all. The Sun
There are only two powers in the world, the sword and the pen; and in the end the former is always conquered by the latter.
Modernist architecture tries to conquer nature instead of working with it.
When he rose to fame as a uncatchable winger with the all-conquering Wigan rugby league side, he found the temptations too strong.
People neeed some courage in life, just like climbing a cliff .Although there are stemp ahead, you still fell some timorous and dare not go ahead. But when you conquer the timidity and reach the peak, you will feel the importance of courage as you enjoy the beautiful scenes. It is the same with life.
Performing simple tasks, not ones that require huge amounts of concentration, and ideally tasks at which we are quite practiced, is the way to conquer the vicious circle of negative thoughts. Paying Attention « Tales from the Reading Room
It speaks, you could say, for much in the accelerated world where we speed between continents and think we have conquered both space and time.
Now that the novelty had become accustomedness, and the conquering a surety, Billy discovered that she had a back that could ache, and limbs that, at times, could almost refuse to move from weariness. Miss Billy -- Married
And as fires kindled dispersedly in a dry forest and rustling laurel-thickets, or foaming rivers where they leap swift and loud from high hills, and speed to sea each in his own path of havoc; as fiercely the two, Aeneas and Turnus, dash amid the battle; now, now wrath surges within them, and unconquerable hearts are torn; now in all their might they rush upon wounds. The Aeneid of Virgil
We had cut away our mast, and lightened the boat of all she contained -- Clara attempted to assist me in heaving the water from the hold, and, as she turned her eyes to look on the lightning, I could discern by that momentary gleam, that resignation had conquered every fear. III.9
His youthful studies, which I have said before were pursued with unconquerable energy, embraced grammar, poetry, rhetoric, history, and the exposition of the Holy Scriptures; the Bible, indeed, he read unceasingly, and drew from it much of the vital truth with which it is inspired; but he perhaps too much tainted it with traditional interpretation and patristical logic. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
I am disappointed by the treatment of pharmaceutical companies, but divide and conquer is a useful strategy. Matthew Yglesias » A Historic Achievement
Those men who make gift of Kapila king with their calves and with vessel of white brass for milking them, -- kine, that is, which are not vicious and which while given away, are wrapped round with cloths, -- succeed in conquering both this and the other world. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
On this date : In 1227 , the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan died.
Andrew was on his well-trodden path to conquering another willing lady.

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