(n.) The act or process of conquering, or acquiring by force; the act of overcoming or subduing opposition by force, whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation; victory.
(n.) That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral.
(n.) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.
(n.) The act of gaining or regaining by successful struggle; as, the conquest of liberty or peace.
Example Sentences:
(1) Efforts made to measure the successful immunologic conquest of diphtheria are compared and contrasted with efforts being made to conquer diseases of allergic origin.
(2) This conquest, which has lasted two hundred years, is far from completed.
(3) The estimate is less than an earlier and much-quoted assessment of approximately 100 Americans taking part in Syria’s civil war and the spillover violence in neighboring Iraq, where the Islamic State militant group (Isis) has launched a war of conquest.
(4) At Conquest hospital in East Sussex, call bells were out of the reach of patients and nurses said they did not always have time to shower patients or wash their hair.
(5) Throughout known history the phallus has been invested with symbolic and even magical significance to fertility, strength, domination and conquest.
(6) They also played an active part in his first conquest, the one that started with a sweet.
(7) The discovery of this vaccine made possible the conquest of smallpox, a task that will probably be completed this year.
(8) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
(9) The next conquest by William in 1066 crushed Anglo-Saxon England, but that in turn would produce the idea of “the Norman yoke”, which had supposedly subjugated the English people.
(10) He is already an artistic associate of the Old Vic and directed Spacey and Jeff Goldblum there in Speed-the-Plow ; he also directed a much-praised revival of Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy The Norman Conquests .
(11) The conquest, if confirmed, represents a major victory for Libya's rebels; symbolically it is the crushing of Gaddafi's authority.
(12) The apparently Caucasoid elements of their tooth morphology might well be the result of admixture with Spanish genes during the conquest.
(13) Or maybe John of Gaunt had it right: “That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.” Main illustration by Christophe Gowans • Follow the Long Read on Twitter at @gdnlongread , or sign up to the long read weekly email here This article was amended on 21 June 2016.
(14) Then there was foreign secretary Boris Johnson describing his new offices : “When I go into the Map Room of Palmerston I cannot help remembering that this country over the last two centuries has directed the invasion or conquest of 178 countries.” Ah, the good old days, last seen in Rhodesia!
(15) In Richard Moore’s book The Bolt Supremacy he describes the odd cocktail of bonhomie and saccharine that surrounded the sprinter’s swaggering conquest of London 2012.
(16) In one of the longest, most passionate and sweeping speeches of his pontificate, the Argentine-born pope used his visit to Bolivia to ask forgiveness for the sins committed by the Roman Catholic church in its treatment of native Americans during what he called the “so-called conquest of America”.
(17) Northern Ireland is the legatee of a war of conquest between the English crown and the native Irish, which ebbed and flowed for centuries and ended with the island’s partition between the overwhelmingly Catholic south and west and the predominantly Protestant north-east.
(18) Ethnomedical studies of the Middle East may be enriched by a long-term historical perspective, which takes into consideration the complex syncretism, through time, of both literate and nonliterate medical systems in this region, as well as the tumultuous history of conquest and colonialism in the Middle East.
(19) The 42-year-old film-maker also gave an interview on Monday on shock jock Howard Stern's radio show in which he spoke about sexual conquests, masturbation, oral sex, his genitalia, the erotic habits of Hollywood moguls and his supposed habit of sending potential partners to his doctor to be checked for sexually transmitted diseases before he sleeps with them.
(20) He rubbed shoulders with everyone from George Orwell and Cyril Connolly to Jean-Paul Sartre and Timothy Leary, and he had a remarkably active sex life – his several hundred conquests included Simone de Beauvoir.
Inca
Definition:
(n.) An emperor or monarch of Peru before, or at the time of, the Spanish conquest; any member of this royal dynasty, reputed to have been descendants of the sun.
(n.) The people governed by the Incas, now represented by the Quichua tribe.
Example Sentences:
(1) They belong to the people who built Choquequirao, one of the most remote Inca settlements in the Andes, and were stashed here by the archaeologists who, over the past 20 years, have been slowly freeing the ruins from the cloud forest.
(2) Our proposal is based on the observation that incA can bind to a RepA-origin complex in vitro.
(3) The region which determines sensitivity to the IncA determinant seems to overlap with the region specifying the IncA determinant.
(4) On the day I arrive a time lapse of cloud is drifting across the ridge, above a geometry of Inca stairways and terraces cut into a steep, jungly spur above the Apurímac river, 100 miles west of Cusco in southern Peru.
(5) We propose that incA, in addition to sequestration, can also restrain replication by causing steric hindrance to the origin function.
(6) On the other hand, sera from the INCA patients were reactive with the peptides no.
(7) The leaf, which was sacred in the days of the Incas, has long been highly valued by people living in the Andes, on account of its nutritional and medicinal qualities.
(8) The INCA program converts Consort 30-generated fluorescence list mode data collected from Indo-1-stained cells to absolute intracellular calcium concentrations (nM Ca2+i).
(9) We show that one repeat sequence is sufficient to bind RepA and can reduce the copy number of incA-deleted plasmids.
(10) Health Inca Tea ingestion should be considered when interpreting urinary BE concentrations.
(11) Rather, the incA sequences appear to block the origin by direct contact in a plasmid-plasmid pairing event.
(12) The widely-held belief that Columbus's ship brought the disease from the New World to Europe rests on identification of the classic lesions in Inca, Aztec and Mississippian bones that date from 1,000 to 3,000 years before present.
(13) Occasionally there are multiple ossification centers in the interparietal bone which fail to fuse, resulting in one of several varieties of os incae.
(14) In the ancient Peru, particularly in the Inca Empire, the review of alcohol use and abuse must be made according to the ethnohistorical and cultural context with special emphasis on ideological and customary aspects.
(15) A possibility that a small anti-sense RNA is involved in copy number control and incompatibility (IncA function) was suggested.
(16) But if any archaeological evidence exists for Choquequirao as a “last refuge of the Incas”, it’s lost beneath the jungle.
(17) • Doubles from $80 B&B, +51 84 222237, andenesalcielo.com Rumi Punku, Cusco Facebook Twitter Pinterest On Cusco’s picturesque Choquecheca Street, this hotel is built on an old Inca temple site and is entered via an ancient stone doorway ( rumi punku is Quechua for stone door).
(18) The expression of the trans-acting factor(s) specifically required for replication of ColE2 interferes with expression of the IncA determinant against ColE2 but not against ColE3.
(19) When both the origin and the incA locus are present on one plasmid, trans contacts with daughter molecules appear to predominate over cis looping.
(20) A 2003 Rodale article describes its cultural place in the Andean highlands, an area that encompasses parts of Bolivia , Peru, and Ecuador: Quinoa (pronounced keen-wá), a seed grain, has been cultivated in the Andean region for over 7,000 years and was considered sacred by the Inca Empire.