(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.
Spanish
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards.
(n.) The language of Spain.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is the oldest medical journal in South America and the second in antiquity published in Spanish, after the Gaceta de México.
(2) MI6 introduced him to the Spanish intelligence service and in 2006 he travelled to Madrid.
(3) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(4) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
(5) The Mexican-Americans of Starr County, Texas, classified by sex and birthplace, were studied to determine the extent of genetic variation and contributions from ancestral populations such as Spanish, Amerindian and West African.
(6) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(7) Corruption scandals have left few among the Spanish ruling class untainted, engulfing politicians on the left and right of the spectrum, as well as businesses, unions, football clubs and even the king’s sister .
(8) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
(9) On 26 April 1937 this market town was obliterated in three hours of bombing by Nazi planes, allies of Generalísimo Francisco Franco’s fascists in the Spanish civil war.
(10) The competition comes a month after the Spanish government put forward legislation that aims to sharply limit women's access to abortion across the country.
(11) The only Spanish voice heard in Catalonia is that of the Madrid government, which seems oblivious to the implications of the groundswell of pro-independence sentiment, much as at Westminster politicians missed the shift in Scottish opinion until just before the referendum.
(12) The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory questionnaire, recently validated in Spanish, was used to measure the students' anxiety associated with the examinations.
(13) Zidane’s first game proper will be on Saturday at home against Deportivo La Coruna in the Spanish league.
(14) Picardo said that he was in frequent "fluid" contact with local politicians in the Spanish border town of La Linea and other areas where the more than 4,000 Spaniards who work in the peninsula live.
(15) The genetic distances separating 14 Spanish goat breeds are calculated from gene frequency data of 14 genetic blood markers (GSH, Ke, Hb, Dia, Ct, MDH, CA, X, NP, Alp, Am, Cp, Tf and Al).
(16) The Cape Ray, a 648ft converted car ferry, has been waiting at the Spanish port of Rota for four months for the extraction of chemical weapons from Syria to be completed.
(17) Parents appear at provincial court in Málaga, part of the process to transfer them to the Spanish capital, Madrid, for extradition hearing on Monday.
(18) Spanish renaissance In contrast, Spanish has held up remarkably well, due to its resilience at GCSE and growing awareness of the number of people around the world who speak it.
(19) • The Spanish government has warned the US that revelations of widespread spying by the National Security Agency could, if confirmed, “ lead to a breakdown in the traditional trust ” between the two countries.
(20) Miklos Haraszti, whom I encountered in Budapest, had the looks of a small Spanish grandee in some Velázquez painting; dark, unnervingly handsome, serene.