It is the only strong nation that has not entered on a career of imperial conquest, and does not want to enter on it.

Commercial expansion, imperial conquest and industrial revolution were creating a vast new middle class.

The victory also set the foundations for the imperial conquests achieved later, under the Peshwas.

Spanish imperial conquest and colonization began with two Castilian expeditions.

Rather, it meant imperial conquest or retribution for defeat.

It has been called "the weapon most associated with [British] imperial conquest".

The reasons for the return have more to do with imperial memory than with imperial conquest.

No one realistically worries about today's Japan re-embarking on the road of imperial conquest.

Whether Abu Bakr intended a full-out imperial conquest or not is hard to say.

Russia's military history is properly seen as one of heroic defense rather than imperial conquest.