Sentences with phrase «military conquest»

He taught that the Kingdom of God is not won through military conquest, but through humility and love.

We identified the warrior God as our God, and when we came into political power we frequently claimed God's support for military conquests.

I think the thing I find difficult to get past is that upon reading the story it doesn't seem that Joshua is leading the nation of Israel on military conquest by his own planning or authority.

Oriental Empires, available now in Steam Early Access, takes advantage of the one such timeline to offer an expansive 4x game of military conquest in early China and Mongolia.

It overuses animalism and the specious equation of high school basketball with military conquests and prowess, and unforgivably consigns the Desdemona character to a haughty afterthought and a series of shrill, shallow pronouncements.

For someone who'd only read about military conquest in history textbooks, Steven Spielberg's World War II painted the missing horrors and chaos of war with his opening D - Day sequence on the beaches of Normandy.

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

It is true... after military conquests (that muslims still call «self defense), the terrorist muhammad would dole out captured women as war prizes to his men.

To his readers, who as Gentiles had been taught to eulogize Caesar as divine and to view Caesar's and Rome's military conquests as «good news,» or who, with Jewish contemporaries, had concluded that the prophetic voice had been stilled — to them Luke writes of another source of good news: the story of Jesus, and he declares that the word of God is still to be heard: it had come to John.

Not if one conceives of universal mission in metaphors drawn from military conquest, colonization, and business.

Also, while military conquest or economic domination often introduces a new language into an established language community, in most cases it takes long - term immigration or the collapse of the native population to give the new language a foothold (witness the indigenous cultures of Latin America wiped out by the diseases brought to their shores by Europeans).

Military conquest sadly seems to be only viable option a lot of the time in Stellaris.

Games about oriental military conquests with faint historical accuracy where you can choose dozens of over-the-top warriors to magic - murder the hell out of thousands of soldiers and officers, while only hitting a two to three different buttons during hours of gameplay?

Michael Parker's The Ides begins with the triumphal arch — an architectural form commemorating military conquest that was first constructed during the Roman Empire and later replicated in various neoclassical structures.

Most of these winds led Israel to expect a Messiah who would overthrow Rome through military conquest and set Israel up as the nation that ruled the world in peace and justice.

Explorers and Emperors alike will find a completely randomized American continent added to their game, including features such as trading with the natives, establishing colonies, and new options for military conquest.

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.

It has been done for centuries, from Constantine's military conquests, to America's ethnic cleansing in the name of Manifest Destiny, to the televangelist's «love gifts.

It is true that Russia does not want to recreate the Soviet empire by military conquest.

There was no exodus from Egypt and no military conquest of Canaan, at least not before King David.

(2003), Dever's account has no historical patriarchs, no exodus from Egypt and no military conquest of Canaan.

Or, did Jesus accept slavery and military conquest?»

They came into their possession as the result of military conquests:

A research team braves Central Asia to capture a surprising genetic record of human migration and military conquest.

Filled with unforgettable characters - an indomitable chef who believes Michelin stars are more enduring than military conquests; a Jewish brothel Madam who reinvents everything about herself during the war; a piano virtuoso turned RAF pilot — The Kites is Romain Gary's poetic call for resistance in whatever form it takes.

Between 1862 and 1945 Vietnam became a French colony following a series of military conquests.

Diplomatic channels may secure your borders, cultural imperialism might expand them peacefully, or you could do things the old - fashioned way through military conquest.

She would go on to reign over the British Empire for 63 eventful years, a span of time that saw the Monarch greatly expand its international holdings through military conquest.

Founded around 1701 with wealth derived primarily from the gold trade with North Africa and Europe, the Asante kingdom expanded through military conquest to become a powerful and dazzling polity in West Africa.

In her designs, fish and other creatures broadcast messages of environmental rather than military conquest.

At the outset of the War of 1812, Tecumseh and his followers hoped that allying with Great Britain would help the Aboriginal Confederacy counter American threats to absorb Aboriginal territory through military conquest, removal and relocation or forced assimilation.

The process in which this occurs, through military conquest or more gradually through commerce and trade, is something I'm far more concerned with than retaining any monopoly on the only language I speak fluently.

You'll still need a powerful army to defend yourself, but military conquest has never been your only option.