(1) Photograph: Claire Provost She compares the companies that have moved into her area to the Spanish conquistadors who invaded America.
(2) But in the 1520s, Spanish conquistadors arrived in Yucatán, signalling the beginning of the end for Mayan civilisation.
(3) The chinampas , or floating market gardens, are unique, one of the few living reminders of the Aztec city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan , captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1521.
(4) From the Roman property scammer turned general Marcus Licinius Crassus, to the Malian king Mansa Musa (possibly the richest man in history), via Cosimo de’ Medici and the bankrolling of Renaissance Florence , to the conquistadores and the great American tycoons, the same impulses emerge.
(5) Contrary to popular belief, it was not the European guns or fierce soldiers that conquered the native Americans, but instead it was the common childhood illnesses brought from the Old World by the European conquistadors.
(6) Author Antonio Ortuño compared Wednesday’s event to Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés – who led the fall of the Aztec empire – meeting with the Aztec emperor Montezuma.
(7) You have to get off the highway to see the real Baja, across the spine of mountains and along old mule trails that go back to the conquistadors, linking oases, old ranches and Spanish missions from the 1700s.
(8) The cunning centre gave us grants for our honest labour as the conquistadors gave beads to native Americans in exchange for gold.
(9) Argentines of Italian origin outnumber Argentines of the original conquistador caste, though they never succeeded in displacing Spanish as the dominant tongue.
(10) Just 300 Spanish conquistadores under the leadership of Cortés united with the Tlaxcallans and other enemies of the Aztec empire to exploit the leader Moctezuma's political indecision to full advantage, resulting in the conquest and collapse of the Aztec state.
(11) Aside from the city centre, this southern end of town is probably the best pocket of Spanish colonial life; if I turned right at this intersection and walked east a mile or so I would come to Coyoacán, the rustic oasis where Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and even the first conquistador, Hernán Cortéz, had their homes.
(12) Some have gone as far as to liken the corporate incomers to 21st-century conquistadors.
(13) In 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and his party first beheld the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan as if floating on the shimmering waters of Lake Texcoco, in the Basin of Mexico.
(14) When Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro arrived he took advantage of the mayhem, and captured the emperor Atahualpa, despite being vastly outnumbered.
Soldier
Definition:
(n.) One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organized body of combatants.
(n.) Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer.
(n.) A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; -- used by way of emphasis or distinction.
(n.) The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.)
(n.) One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest. See Termite.
(v. i.) To serve as a soldier.
(v. i.) To make a pretense of doing something, or of performing any task.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are the E-1 to E-3 pay grades and soldiers in combat arms units.
(2) But in a country with an unemployment rate of nearly 70%, including many former child soldiers, there are no certainties.
(3) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
(4) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.
(5) The soldiers allegedly launched the attack after one of their comrades was killed when he became involved in an argument over a woman near Fizi hospital.
(6) He is telling others at the checkpoint not to enter.” The images suggest Hashlamon turned to face a soldier with a radio – who according to eyewitnesses was a commander – who approached from the left from the photographer’s point of view.
(7) Bill O’Reilly has told different versions of an encounter at gunpoint that he claims to have experienced while reporting in Argentina – one involving a single armed soldier and the other detailing several troops.
(8) "This was followed later by an attack at the SPLA (South Sudan army) headquarters near Juba University by a group of soldiers allied to the former vice-president Dr Riek Machar and his group.
(9) Eleven US soldiers have been convicted in the Abu Ghraib scandal.
(10) How World of Warcraft train future soldiers One odder digression sees the two discussing whether or not MMORPGs, video games like World of Warcraft, are evil.
(11) Hours after the firefight ended, and just a few dozen kilometres away, a "very reliable" member of the Afghan local police turned his gun on two British soldiers.
(12) He admitted the increased profile afforded him by appearances in movies such as Captain America , its forthcoming sequel The Winter Soldier and 2012's $1.5bn superhero ensemble piece The Avengers had helped him get a foot on the ladder as a film-maker.
(13) He saw a soldier aim his weapon’s laser sight at the al-Atrashes’ Volkswagen “like he was preparing to shoot”.
(14) Afghan officials in the past have expressed fears that soldiers sent to Pakistan could be recruited as spies or that their careers would be stunted by the deep hostility that Afghans harbour towards Pakistan.
(15) "Only one bullet that we're aware of hit, the second Australian returned fire and critically injured and possibly killed the Afghani," said Lieutenant General Rhys Jones, chief of the New Zealand Defence Force, who identified his injured soldier as an instructor from the officer academy.
(16) One hundred fifty-two cases among active duty Army soldiers were identified.
(17) The last American soldier held captive by the Afghan Taliban has been released, after the US government agreed to free five Afghan detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba to the custody of the Qatari government, US officials said.
(18) We talked of his time as a soldier in the first world war.
(19) You can bear witness to the gallantry of our military in Burma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur and many other parts of the world, but in the matter of the insurgency our soldiers have neither received the necessary support nor the required incentives to tackle this problem.” He added: “We believe that there is faulty intelligence and analysis.
(20) "There are definitely green men there today, they aren't hiding that they're from Crimea, from Russia," she said, referring to the unmarked soldiers Russia deployed to take control of Crimea last month, who are popularly known as "little green men".