Invincible Sentence Examples

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  • Rome, protected by invincible prestige, escaped.

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  • This proved to be the last pitched battle of the war, the Danes never again venturing to attack their once more invincible enemy in the open field.

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  • How can just a few people make a country invincible?

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  • A harder way to become invincible is in cooperative mode.

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  • Mahadji's disciplined troops made him invincible.

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  • In my previous life, I was nearly invincible.

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  • Become Invincible - Hold L1 +R1 and press Right, Left, Right, Left, Up, Down, Up, Down with your directional buttons.

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  • Being invincible sure would make things easier, right?

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  • So is there any way to become invincible in any of the Halo games?

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  • While there is no mode or set of instructions that make you invincible for the entire game, there are strategic things you can do to become temporarily "invincible".

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  • Find a Chief Brute with a gravity hammer (or any Chief Brute, but the one with a gravity hammer makes you invincible more consistently).

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  • He is the Perfect One, the Born in a Happy Hour, "My Cid," the invincible, the magnanimous, the allpowerful.

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  • And we are not quite so invincible as we always imagined.

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  • Together, at their peak, they were virtually invincible.

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  • By round 4, Leonard was beginning to prove invincible.

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  • My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic, and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances.

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  • He lives in history, apart from his three hymns, mainly as a man of unstained purity and invincible fidelity to conscience, weak only in a certain narrowness of view which is a frequent attribute of the intense character which he possessed.

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  • But the imperiousness showed itself in the more effectual form of action; in his sudden resolves, his invincible insistence, his recklessness of consequences to himself and his friends, his habitual assumption that the civilized world and all its units must agree with him, his indignant astonishment at the bare thought of dissent or resistance, his incapacity to believe that an overruling Providence would permit him to be frustrated or defeated.

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  • Parents remember what it was like to be young, feeling invincible and wanting to experiment with things.

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  • Drugs-Because children often believe themselves invincible, often having a "it won't happen to me attitude," it's hard to convince them at times that drugs can kill.

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  • Thirty seconds isn't a long time, but being invincible is being invincible no matter how long it lasts.

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  • When you find an overshield and pick it up, you become temporarily invincible as the shield charges up to full green.

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  • The Starman makes Mario invincible for 8-12 seconds, causing him to rapidly change colors and playing the familiar Starman music in the background.

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  • Today's kids are more technologically-savvy than ever before, but they are still children who feel invincible.

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  • The name of the company is Latin for "invincible" and its founder and employees set out to prove it was worthy of the title.

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  • They're good at what they do, but that doesn't make them invincible.

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  • This proved that they weren't so invincible after all.

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  • He seemed downright invincible until his power source is destroyed.

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  • The movie released in America went by the title, Gamera, the Invincible.

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  • When I take over Death's domain and her army of souls, I'll be invincible.  By my side is the only place anyone will be safe.

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  • It was against them that was broken his invincible will, sweeping away in the defeat the work of Panama, his own fortune, his fame and almost an atom of his honour.

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  • Depretis tardily recognized the need for such agreement, if only to remove the coldness and invincible diffidence which, Afflan.

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  • Speaking next day at a luncheon given in his honour, answering critics who alleged that with more time and patience on the part of Great Britain war might have been avoided, he asserted that what they were asked to "conciliate" was "panoplied hatred, insensate ambition, invincible ignorance."

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  • The Girondists, who had a majority in the Convention, controlled the executive council and filled the ministry, believed themselves invincible.

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  • His character peeps forth most clearly perhaps in the saying which has become his epithet, Atterdag (" There will be a to-morrow"), which is an indication of that invincible doggedness to which he owed most of his successes.

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  • Even when, after the peace of Tilsit, the independent grand-duchy of Warsaw was constructed out of the central provinces of Prussian Poland, his distrust of Napoleon proved to be invincible.

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  • It is remarkable that he should not have discovered in her the qualities so obvious to modern champions of her character - easiness, gullibility, incurable innocence and invincible ignorance of evil, incapacity to suspect or resent anything, readiness to believe and forgive all things.

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  • In 1637 the stadholder was able to add to his fame as an invincible besieger of cities.

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  • Necessity compelled him indeed (1534-1536) to take part in Grevens fejde (Counts' War) (see Denmark, History), as the ally of Christian III., but his exaggerated distrust of the Danes was invincible.

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  • The name 'Aba as, " the invincible," was probably applied by the Greeks to hard metals, and thence to corundum (emery) and other hard stones.

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  • He is constantly admitting that on such and such an occasion he was terribly afraid; he confesses without the least shame that, when one of his followers suggested defiance of the Saracens and voluntary death, he (Joinville) paid not the least attention to him; nor does he attempt to gloss in any way his refusal to accompany St Louis on his unlucky second crusade, or his invincible conviction that it was better to be in mortal sin than to have the leprosy, or his decided preference for wine as little watered as might be, or any other weakness.

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  • Three years afterwards the same theme was rehandled with no less magnificent mastery in L'Homme qui rit; the theme of human heroism confronted with the superhuman tyranny of blind and unimaginable chance, overpowered and unbroken, defeated and invincible.

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  • Dupont capitulated at Bailen into the hands of Castanos, and Junot at Cintra to Wellesley; while Europe trembled at this first check to the hitherto invincible imperial armies.

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  • Having obtained this boon, he considered himself invincible and the supreme God.

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  • Lynda Cash was Leading Medical Assistant Brian Waling when she served alongside the Duke of York on the carrier invincible in the Falklands.

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  • The seemingly invincible Peter Dempsey was coming to Castle Combe.

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  • Doing this renders you almost invincible allowing general carnage in your vicinity!

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  • Chelsea are not invincible, the league is not won.

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  • In 1964 Arkle and Mill House were both apparently invincible.

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  • Their hegemony was established by straight force without cultural subversion a force which seemed invincible.

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  • The victors would have felt invincible, the victims would have shaken their fists at the fates.

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  • Collect it and you become invincible for 10 seconds allowing you to just run into enemies to kill them.

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  • Braking hard into the hairpin on the first lap Webster looked simply invincible.

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  • Napoleon was by now master of the continent, but Maida again showed that his troops were by no means invincible.

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  • They begin to look upon themselves as invincible, almost invulnerable.

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  • Regions Caesar never knew thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None invincible as they.

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  • I felt as before that I loved God, that my mind embraced and accepted that ideal of justice, tenderness and holiness which I had never doubted, but with which I had never held direct communion, and now at last I felt that this communion was consummated, as though an invincible barrier had been broken down between the source of infinite light and the smouldering fire of my heart.

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  • The Bourbonists in Calabria, utterly disorganized, broke before the invincible red-shirts, and the 40,000 men defending the Salerno-Avellino line made no better resistance, being eventually ordered to fall back on the Volturno.

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  • This infernal sentence was actually carried out, and, life still lingering, the half-roasted carcass of the unhappy wretch, who endured everything with invincible heroism, was finally devoured by half-a-dozen of his fellow-rehels, who by way of preparation had been starved for a whole week beforehand.

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  • He compelled all strangers passing through the country to wrestle with him, and as, when thrown, he derived fresh strength from each successive contact with his mother earth, he proved invincible.

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  • This project, which lacked neither ability nor audacity, foundered upon Louis XV.'s invincible jealousy of the growth of Russian influence in eastern Europe and his fear of offending the Porte.

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  • Feeling invincible because of his hubris, Cody tried – and failed – an advanced bicycle trick.

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  • In 1984 the silver screen introduced the world to the invincible terminator robot that visited from the future--the year 2029.

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  • Instead it is a topic of discussion among science fiction enthusiasts who enjoy the popular Japanese monster movie genre where Godzilla is known as King of the Monsters and Gamera is invincible.

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  • Meks fort was silenced by about 52.45 P.M., and a party from the Invincible landed and disabled the guns.

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  • In France Mehemet Ali had become a popular hero; under him French civilization had gained a foothold in Egypt; he was regarded as invincible; and it was hoped that in alliance with him French influence in the Mediterranean would be supreme.

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  • The defeat of the " Invincible Armada " in 1588, at which time the crowns of Spain and Portugal were united, gave a fresh stimulus to maritime enterprise in England; and the successful voyage of Cornelius Houtman in East 1596 showed the way round the Cape of Good Hoe lnd,a 59 Y P P Company.

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  • By the beginning of 1616, Gustavus had become convinced of the impossibility of partitioning reunited Muscovy, while Muscovy recognized the necessity of buying off the invincible Swedes by some cession of territory.

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  • Such a minister thou holdest in thy invincible hands - the two-edged, fiery, everliving thunderbolt, under whose stroke all nature shudders.

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  • They knew well enough the power of invincible Rome; and her advance warned them to take themselves and their talents to the market of the wide world, to which in heart and mind they had always belonged.

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  • The father, Mhlakza, went to see the men, who told him that they were spirits of the dead, who had come, if their behests were obeyed, to aid the Kaffirs with their invincible power to drive the white man from the land.

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  • The Spaniards seized Calais in 1596; at another time they threatened England from Brest, and the invisible armada of 1599 created a greater panic than the invincible armada of 1588.

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  • But Philip's whole thoughts and energies were already directed to the preparation of an Invincible Armada for the conquest of England, and Parma was ordered to collect an enormous flotilla of transports and to keep his army concentrated and trained for the projected invasion of the island realm of Queen Elizabeth.

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  • Yet between 1531 and 1547 he manifested the same regrets and the same invincible ambition for that land of Italy which Charles V., on his side, regarded as the basis of his strength.

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  • And so the old limitations of Israel's popular religion, - the same limitations that encumbered also the religions of all the neighbouring races that succumbed in turn to Assyria's invincible progress, - now began to disappear.

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  • Except in finance, he was not able to accomplish much, for he was met and thwarted at every turn by his chief's invincible hostility to change; but the more advanced section of the Liberal party began to look upon him as their predestined leader.

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  • The Taphians, however, remained invincible until Comaetho, the king's daughter, out of love for Amphitryon cut off her father's golden hair, the possession of which rendered him immortal.

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  • In the first, which was fought on the 5th and 6th of September 1634, the hitherto invincible Swedish army, commanded by Duke Bernhard of Saxe Weimar and Marshal Horn, was defeated with great loss by a somewhat superior army of Imperialists and Spaniards under General Gallas, Horn and 3000 men being made prisoners and 6000 killed or mortally wounded.

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  • It was not until the people was stung by the humiliation of Bull Run that the unorganized enthusiasm of the North settled down into an invincible determination to crush the rebellion at all costs.

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  • But the attention of the Spanish king was at this time con P g centrated upon the success of the Invincible Armada.

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  • Many, of their seamen took service with Spain; and twelve of their finest ships were lost with the Invincible Armada in 1588.

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  • To put a stop to this, to ensure his own access to the Mediterranean and exclude his chief rival, Napoleon made a desperate effort in 1812 against a country as invincible as Spain.

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  • But the name with which the Nominalism of the 14th century is historically associated is that of the " Invincible Doctor," William of Occam William of who, (q.v.),, as the, author of a doctrine which came occam to be almost universally accepted, received from his followers the title Venerabilis inceptor.

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  • Nor was his failure due to lack of activity or energy, but rather to the insuperable obstacles in his path - the physical configuration of Italy, and, above all, the invincible repugnance of the Italian municipalities to submit to the mastery of a religious power.

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  • He was convinced that he alone could maintain command of the army in these difficult circumstances, and that in all the world he alone could encounter the invincible Napoleon without fear, and he was horrified at the thought of the order he had to issue.

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  • In 1593 the leaguer of Geertruidenburg put the seal on Maurice's reputation as an invincible besieger.

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  • Holofernes now inquires of the chiefs who are with him about the Israelites,and is answered by Achior the leader of the Ammonites, who enters upon a long historical narrative showing the Israelites to be invincible except when they have offended God.

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  • Prussia has always declared that Buonaparte is invincible, and that all Europe is powerless before him....

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  • He, like Pitt, was compelled to bow to the king's invincible determination not to allow the emancipation of the Roman Catholics.

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  • Alva was triumphant; but though Alva's master had supplied him with an invincible army, he was unable to furnish him with the funds to pay for it.

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  • Nor must we overlook Wellington's unswerving determination to co-operate with Blucher at all costs, and his firmness on June 18; or the invincible steadiness shown by the British troops and those of the King's German Legion.

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