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  • If the members of the Politburo could be persuaded to overthrow Gordov, though, and resume their own uncontested control over the USSR, Chiang would be in a position to take advantage of the resulting chaos and regain China's full independence, and perhaps even detach the USSR's newly-conquered eastern Republics into the bargain.

    DBTL 64: Everybody Wang Ch'ung Tonight Johnny Pez 2010

  • After the Six Day War in 1967, when Israel extended is laws and administration to newly-conquered East Jerusalem, the U.S. declared that it "does not accept or recognize these measures as altering the status of Jerusalem."

    Dr. Charles G. Cogan: Slouching Toward Jerusalem 2009

  • Vice – Regent of his newly-conquered territory of Bangalore, which

    The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

  • In order the better to gratify her vanity she had urged the king, her husband, to make war on all the surrounding islands, and as his greatest wish was to please her, the only conditions he imposed on any newly-conquered country was that each princess of every royal house should attend his court as soon as she was fifteen years old, and do homage to the transcendent beauty of his queen.

    The Grey Fairy Book 2003

  • He bore it for a time, but in August took advantage of the visit of Colonel Wilson to the newly-conquered Yenbo, to come down and give a full explanation of his urgent needs.

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • Boer patriotism we had supposed to be not merely pronounced, but fiercely passionate; and "a Dutchman," said Penn, "is never so dangerous as when he is desperate"; yet when the Guards 'Brigade stepped out of the newly-conquered Free State into the about to be conquered Transvaal, scarcely a solitary Dutchman appeared upon the scene to dispute our passage, or to strike one desperate blow for hearth and altar and independence.

    With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry

  • But our title to this newly-conquered territory was by no means quite so unchallenged as such a complacent and complimentary sky might have led one to suppose.

    With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry

  • Originally the prefectures in Ch'in had been placed directly under the central administration, with an official, often a merchant, being responsible for the collection of taxes; the provinces, on the other hand, formed a sort of military command area, especially in the newly-conquered frontier territories.

    A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

  • When Chinese lords of the preceding period, with the help of their sub-lords of the nobility, made wars, they tended to put the newly-conquered areas not into the hands of newly-enfeoffed noblemen, but to keep them as their property and to put their administration into the hands of efficient servants; these were the first bureaucratic officials.

    A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

  • For America would have to make up these losses, America would have to drive the Germans out of every foot of this newly-conquered territory.

    Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923

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