Sentences with phrase «many conquest»

However, when the tech boom rolled in the company and its new investors embarked on Virginesque global conquest.

Facebook's latest conquest, the Oculus Rift, got top billing at this year's Comic - Con, as event goers were able to use the headset to hunt virtually for X-men mutants.

The game of dominating the world's resources, nation - states and alliances is like a combination of Go and chess, with the threat of military conquest or defeat always hovering over the statecraft and financial game.

Over lunch at the Corned Beef Academy, Piola recounts a war story — his recent cold - calling conquest of Pittsburgh National Bank (PNB).

Amazon.com is turning to the debt markets to fund the $ 13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods Market and power Jeff Bezos's planned conquest of the supermarket business.

The military approach involves conquest, seizure of property and assets, and combat.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States is now investigating whether Broadcom's $ 117 billion conquest attempt could have national security consequences, given Qualcomm's sensitive government work and the role it plays in developing technology behind next - generation 5G telecom infrastructure.

In 1519, Hernán Cortés, a Spanish conquistador, famously ordered burning the boats as his troops prepared for the impossible conquest of the Aztec Empire.

For example, following the Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires, massive amounts of gold and especially silver flowed into the Spanish and other European economies.

These are the classical economic policies proposed to free markets from the legacy of European feudalism and conquest of the land.

The financial conquest is capped by turning tax policy over to financial lobbyists who claim to serve as objective technocrats.

«We're conquesting a target group, and engaging them with a brand, who do not want to commit to a three - year lease.

«The creator's concern is the conquest of nature.

The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.»

Like military conquest, its aim is to gain control of land, public infrastructure, and to impose tribute.

Lucite tombstones recount conquests involving many of the great companies of the 20th century, from MGM to Motorola, Texaco to Nabisco.

1 55 million Second World War 20C 2 40 million Mao Zedong (mostly famine) 20C 3 40 million Mongol Conquests 13C 4 36 million An Lushan Revolt 8C 5 25 million Fall of the Ming Dynasty 17C 6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C 7 20 million Annihilation of the South and North American Indians 15C - 19C 8 20 million Iosif Stalin 20C 9 19 million Mideast Slave Trade 7C - 19C 10 18 million Atlantic Slave Trade 15C - 19C 11 17 million Timur Lenk 14C - 15C 12 17 million British India (mostly famine) 19C 13 15 million First World War 20C 14 9 million Russian Civil War 20C 15 8 million Fall of Rome 3C - 5C 16 8 million Congo Free State 19C - 20C 17 7 million Thirty Years War 17C 18 5 million Russia's Time of Troubles 16C - 17C 19 4 million Napoleonic Wars 19C 20 3 million Chinese Civil War 20C 21 3 million French Wars of Religion 16C

Islam was made - up for the sake of aggressive war and conquests.

(Of course, Rome's conquest of the future Holy Lands predates all of this.)

When Romulan warbirds fire disruptors and humans can only defend themselves with wooden shield with holy cross markings, you can tell me Romulan conquest of Earth is by intelligent design.

Before the Muslim conquests (it is interesting that papacy and Islam were established at the same time around 600 a. D.) there was a great Christian Church in the Roman Empire or later Eastern Roman Empire with a lot of free bishops.

As long ago as 1970, in The Patient as Person, one of the truly important books at the dawn of bioethics, Paul Ramsey argued that, in a healthy society dedicated to research aimed at the conquest of disease, we would all regard ourselves as «joint adventurers» in the cause of medical progress.

The really hard core «conquest» didn't occur for several decades, by that time, many more secular folks had made land fall.

If we also keep in mind Isaiah 45:7, this divergence in theology becomes explainable and the contradiction is exposed for what it probably is; a shift in the theology of the Hebrews, influenced by the dualistic Persian religion at the time of the Persian's conquest of Babylon in around 539 BCE.

That all forms and variants of Islam are inherently geared towards conquest?

Ivan the Terrible was alive from 1530 - 1584 and conquested several neighbouring lands, making Russia a much larger and racially diverse country.

It is complex and requires a level of sophistication that I don't think it can be reasonably be taught in high school — can you imagine getting a discussion on the political impact of monophysitism in the Byzantine empire and how it enabled the Muslim conquest through the Texas School Board?

Honor killings, infanticide, wife beating, aggressive conquest, vengence and enforced caste systems, while perfectly acceptable in many cultures in part or in whole, are considered wrong, by these «good» atheists, and of course by Christians.

One after another, the phrases depict Islam, its writings and leaders, as violent and bent on conquest.

He will set them off with communications of His presence which, though faint, seem great to them, with emotional sweetness, and easy conquest over temptation.

This lady hasn't done any real homework — 1 Christian ever 4 minutes was killed in 2009 I believe, on the other side of the planet - Hindu's kill Christians in India, the Chinese church is underground because of it's ban on Christianity, Russia killed thousands in it's atheist conquest, Indochina the Muslims decapitate Christians... Do your own homework, find out, and look for sources that don't share your bias

What with the Crusades, the Inquisition and forced conversion of native peoples, Christianity grew in large part because of violent conquest.

I believe in nationality; not in terms of race or of divine commissions for world conquest, but simply thus: mankind inevitably organizes itself in communities according to its geographical distribution; these communities by sharing a common history develop common characteristics and inspire local loyalty; the individual family develops most happily and fully when it accepts these natural limits.

When they began their conquest of the Andean region in 1532 they noted the quipus, aka «talking knots», which were used as a record - keeping system by the native populace.

Instead of enjoying conquest, he suffers a series of humiliating erotic and military defeats.

On the other hand, one must welcome the true conquests of the Enlightenment, human rights, and especially the freedom of faith and its practice, and recognize these as being essential elements for the authenticity of religion. . . .

The fact is, the land any nation possesses today is the result of conquest, often after changing hands many times after many different conquests.

We still engage in colonialism and corporate conquest even from a secular foundation.

Since then his vocation has been the conquest of momentous, difficult, contentious problems.

Muchembled also resists a Western triumphalist narrative by suggesting that the taming of domestic violence was not simply the result of a progressive civilizing process» marking European civilization as the height of human evolution» but came at the price of colonial conquest on other continents and terribly destructive wars among nations in Europe.

The encyclical discusses in some detail the tragically unsatisfactory ways in which the world has tried to satisfy the irrepressible hope that belongs to being human, citing Francis Bacon's proposed conquest of nature and Karl Marx's utopian goal of the kingdom of freedom.

What brings out the worst in humans is the conquest of power.

it is through conquest that Christianity spread.

Sure, religion plays a role in legitimizing power and rationalizing colonization (just look at the Spanish conquest of the Americas, for example), but if the Abrahamic holy books were really a good social agent the rest of the world would be imitating the most backward parts of the Middle East.

Nor did this conclude Islam's program of conquest.

The general pattern in Arabian Empire conquests, was, as long as 1 local deity was identified, to say «well you worship Allah by another name, so * carry on *», (as long as monotheism was embraced).

Beria confidently predicted that Jewish Communism would eventually «have dominion over the minds and bodies of every important person in America», and would «bring about the quiet Communist conquest of the United States».

Chen - Great job and wishing y» all well in your conquest for freedom.

2) history of all religions started by conquest.

After listing Charlemagne's previous conquests as evidence of his power, he introduces the main theme with a rhetorical question: «Under these conditions, was it not to be expected» that the king should add a more general title commensurate with his authority?