The conquest of space. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Historic movement was for several centuries that of the nations and societies of Western Europe out into the rest of the world in "conquest" of various sorts. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King - Nobel Lecture] Reference
His recent title conquest of the Pool said it loud. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Japan Leads Rally; Steel Stocks Up] Reference
A rational conquest is more honourable to a rational creature than a brutal one. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
World-conquest is believed in most firmly by those who know it to be impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-Four] Reference
But faith teaches that security realized through conquest is no security at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Rev. Chuck Currie:] Reference
The epic, bound up as it is in conquest and force of might, is not my native genre. From Wordnik.com. [Ingrid Hill - An interview with author] Reference
First, its adherents believe their mission of global conquest is divinely inspired. From Wordnik.com. [Stealth Jihad by Frank Gaffney, Jr. and The American Legion « Mark12ministries’s Weblog] Reference
Jimmy Rollins 'prediction of a five-game Philadelphia conquest is off to a promising start. From Wordnik.com. [Phillies' Lee upstages Steinbrenner's Game 1 visit] Reference
Are you seriously trying to claim that imperialist conquest is a uniquely capitalist phenomenon?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Victims of Communism Day] Reference
No, I most certainly am not claiming that imperialist conquest is a uniquely capitalist phenomenon. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Victims of Communism Day] Reference
But I do not believe in revolution; I am convinced that the only permanent conquest is a spiritual one. From Wordnik.com. [Aleta Dey] Reference
That power and that dominion, Prussian aggression and Prussian conquest, is justified, they say, by Prussian culture. From Wordnik.com. [The War] Reference
Latin conquest; a rapid abstract, which may be supported by a general appeal to the order and text of the original historians. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
This statement is accounting for his acquisition of so large a territory; he got it by right of conquest from the former possessors. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
In the progress of conquest from the north and south, the Goths and the Saracens encountered each other on the confines of Europe and Africa. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Southey's strategy for naturalizing conquest is very much in line with the tradition of Spanish conquest narratives against and over which he wrote. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on 'The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism'] Reference
This is said to represent the moment of creation when the founding ancestors of the Maya received their divine right of conquest from the Feathered Serpent. From Wordnik.com. [Primary sources of Maya history - part five] Reference
In the days before Surak brought his philosophy of peace-through-logic to the masses, Vulcans had committed any number of atrocities in the name of conquest. From Wordnik.com. [Legacy] Reference
Of all the British possessions on this continent, New-York, after its conquest from the Dutch, received most of the social organization of the mother country. From Wordnik.com. [Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale] Reference
I refuse to call a conquest what was won by fraud in gambling. From Wordnik.com. [The Fugitive] Reference
South Africa knew that the so-called conquest of the domain of King. From Wordnik.com. [Cecil Rhodes Man and Empire-Maker] Reference
The so-called conquest was only less sudden than the subsequent loss of. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots] Reference
As so often happens, the conquest was a little less hard than it appeared to be. From Wordnik.com. [London River] Reference
I come now to what has been absurdly called the conquest of Ireland under Henry II. From Wordnik.com. [Is Ulster Right?] Reference
Surely the conquest was a still crueler blow to him than to most dwellers on Wunderland. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
The conquest was a sort of whirlwind campaign that crushed the active and dangerous opposition of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible Period by Period A Manual for the Study of the Bible by Periods] Reference
There is a mode called conquest where you can capture and hold areas of the planet via a turn-based strategy game. From Wordnik.com. [State News Top Stories] Reference
"Each tent contains eleven or thirteen men, and one spirit animates the whole -- that is, the conquest of perfidious Albion.". From Wordnik.com. [From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure] Reference
The magnet which attracted the Spaniards at the time of the conquest was the island's mineral wealth, especially the gold deposits. From Wordnik.com. [Santo Domingo A Country with a Future] Reference
He succeeded in subduing the country; but the effect of his conquest was a terrible famine in the North, where the food had been destroyed. From Wordnik.com. [Outline of Universal History] Reference
He liked the idea of conquest, he loved to see prisoners paraded and he craved the loot that filled his storehouses, but he had no belly for fighting. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Fortress]
No conquest can give such a right; for conquest, that is, force, cannot convert its own injustice into a just title, by which it may rule others at its pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)] Reference
Yet the most surprising part of the story of the conquest is the enormous population assigned to the numerous large cities which they allege the valley contained. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
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