5 sentences with 'aggressively'
Example sentences and phrases with the word aggressively and other words derived from it.
• « One of the great puzzles of world history is why European states expanded so rapidly and aggressively, over the long term, while other powers such as China, the Ottoman Empire or the kingdoms of India did not. »
• « This was especially true among the Huguenots in France, who aggressively proselytised and imposed harsh social and, if they could, legal controls on behaviour in their areas of influence, which included several towns in southern France, not just Switzerland. »
• « Simultaneously, European Christian missionaries were at work trying to convert both Muslims and Hindus to Christianity, sometimes very aggressively. This culminated in an explosion of anti-Christian and anti-British violence that temporarily plunged India into civil war. »
• « After the war, the victorious Americans turned a deaf ear to the Indians' claims to what the revolutionaries considered their hard-won lands, and acted aggressively to assert control over western New York and Pennsylvania. »
• « Under Jefferson, there were two Indian policies: force the Indians to adopt American agricultural ways of life or aggressively indebt them to force them to sell their land. »