Sentences with phrase «military conquest by»

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.

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

hmmmmm... did Jesus tolerate military by - blood - and - sword conquest?

The War of the Sons of Light with the Sons of Darkness is a plan for the conquest of the world by the Sons of Light; it is the Mein Kampf of the Dead Sea generalissimo, who describes the future in a way faintly reminiscent of the entrance of Israel into Canaan but more clearly based on Roman military organization, procedure and strategy.

Christianity was the major religion involved in the conquest of the americas and it rose to power in rome by preaching military success would stem from putting crosses on the roman shields.

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).

In these crests, the story told by the images is one not of military, but ecological, conquest.

> The First Crusade (1096 — 1099) started as a widespread pilgrimage (France and Germany) and ended as a military expedition by Roman Catholic Europe to regain the Holy Lands taken in the Muslim conquests of the Levant (632 — 661), ultimately resulting in the recapture of Jerusalem in 1099.