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单词 conqueror
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Examples from literature
  • All these several nations were sooner or later reduced into subjection by the Romans, but the conquerors themselves give us the most glorious testimony to their valor.
  • The German Emperor must stand either as a pacifist or as a conqueror.
  • The conquerors adopted one religion, while the conquered retained the other, and thus a new and most enduring barrier was raised between the two nations in Ireland, and a pernicious antagonism was established between law and religion.
  • The true foreign yoke was only felt when England saw its conqueror in William the Norman.
  • They were awed by the presence of the conqueror of Egypt and of Europe.

Examplesofconqueror

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At every stage she is at pains to highlight any of the scanty evidence of co-operation between conquerors and conquered.
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Each new group of arrivals, or conquerors, to use their more militaristic and bombastic term, imposed its culture and its ways on the autochthonous commoners.
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By appropriating this capital, one holds the status ofconquerorand civilizer.
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In oral traditions common to these areas, we find a distinction between an elite group of 'civilized ' conquerors and 'uncultured' commoners.
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We learn that notions of what comprises childhood differed between the conquerors and the indigenous peoples, but that the latter's notion endured.
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In these narratives, other communities and, even, parts of one's own community emerge as scheming villains, conquerors, victims, traitors, friends, enemies and protectors.
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In practice, the transition from ' grunt' to 'conqueror', that is from programmer to manager, very often happens at a ' young' age (the late twenties or early thirties).
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Third, many of the conquerors' actions would have led to increased mortality, even without the concurring action of new diseases.
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On the basis of this reasoning, the customs of the conquered held an advantage over those of theconquerorby virtue of the fact that they already enjoyed support.
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The debate turned on questions about the rights and duties of conquerors regarding the acquisition of new territories, and the problem of concluding a just and durable settlement.
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The main aim of tsarism in the region was the military repression of the local population's resistance to the conquerors and securing the permanent public status of the country.
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It is not really accurate to call them 'indigenous peoples', since many of the residents were themselves immigrants or conquerors who arrived before the next wave of pioneer settlers.
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However, the evidence reveals that local elites and rural communities jockeyed for respect and political entitlement through the manipulation of the symbolic capital of theconqueror.
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Sinhalese readers were reminded of their loyalty to their conquerors and their readiness to bear their share in the burden of responsibilities consequent on belonging to a worldwide empire.
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A style like this becomes aconqueror.
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