(1) Life appears to vanquish the hope and ideals of all men, dragging in its train even the greatest, like Plato, Alexander, or Napoleon.

(2) The sooner the world understands it, the sooner we will be able to vanquish these forces of evil.

(3) Medical technology has enabled scientific medicine to vanquish its rivals in the medical marketplace in the quest for patient patronage and health insurance funds.

(4) Arguments are used constructively to clarify issues, not to vanquish opponents.

(5) Its report, in the spring, is likely to demand radical change in relations between the rich and poor world if abject poverty is to be vanquished .

(6) They discussed the neuroscientific and the behavioural, the syntactical and the imaginative, declared illiteracy to be utterly vanquishable , and showed why some teaching methodology works best.

(7) His troops had vanquished their opponents, now the Army and its prisoners were on their way home.

(8) Evidence from researchers at Hull University suggests many people benefit from relaxation therapy, hypnotherapy and guided imagery in which patients are taught to visualise their bodies' defences vanquishing tumours.

(9) He did not flinch as the verdict was read to a hushed court - and his hopes of divine intervention were vanquished .

(10) Defeat at Trafalgar ended any hope of maritime supremacy for France, and thus any realistic hope of vanquishing the British, but Napoleon continued to steamroller his continental opponents.

(11) Uncertainty vanquishes notions of exclusivity and superiority.

(12) It took also any sense I might have had that life and fate were controllable, that evil was vanquishable .

(13) Meg was unable to stop herself from throwing that challenge in her vicious vanquisher 's face.

(14) The points are still there, and enemies are still vanquishable , but the goal now is to finish the games so that we can see and hear the narrative of the story.

(15) The temptation is to wage war on stupidity as if it were a vanquishable object.

(16) As at least three art historians allege, St. George never vanquished a dragon, as legend asserts.

(17) Gaining the prize requires vanquishing your opponents, and your strength is inversely proportional to theirs.

(18) It may be illustrative to return to the career of the Emperor Phocus - and that of his vanquisher and successor, the Emperor Heraclius.

(19) He's out of ammo and doomed for sure, and there's 15 guys on him, and he vanquishes them all with his will and might.

(20) Researchers may also better understand the forces that vanquished the Ice Age ecosystem.