Sentences with phrase «military conquest in»
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.
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We find that the Romans owed... the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observation of discipline in their camps and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.»
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.
Again, the victory over the powers of Death and Satan can be described in such military terms that the personal meaning of the forgiveness of God is lost in the drama of the divine conquest.
The popular clamor for more science and mathematics in the public schools lest the Russians outdistance us in military achievements and in the conquest of outer space is a symptom of the common assumption that science has the answer.
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.
Not if one conceives of universal mission in metaphors drawn from military conquest, colonization, and business.
This process, the military part of which has been artificially foreshortened in the Biblical story of the conquest of Canaan, was really long - drawn - out and gradual.
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).
Military conquest sadly seems to be only viable option a lot of the time in Stellaris.
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 these crests, the story told by the images is one not of military, but ecological, conquest.
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.
In her designs, fish and other creatures broadcast messages of environmental rather than military 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.
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.