7 sentences with 'conceived'
Example sentences and phrases with the word conceived and other words derived from it.
• « The Costa Doñana project was conceived as a high-end version of Matalascañas: a vast complex of 32,000-bed hotels, apartments with Andalusian-style architecture and luxury villas, built around a 27-hole golf course. »
• « Dr. Epstein recalled the time, ten years earlier, when he conceived of the possibility of operating on the spinal cord. Tumors in this region are rare in children, but when they occur, they are almost always fatal. »
• « The project, as he had conceived it, was both daring and serendipitous. The risks were considerable. »
• « Blitzkrieg (lightning war) had originally been conceived by a French officer, Charles de Gaulle, in a military tactical plan for mobile warfare. It was rejected by the French General Staff but was taken over by the Germans and implemented by the Wehrmacht. The irony is that de Gaulle would become the leader of the anti-Nazi Free French forces in the war after France itself surrendered. »
• « Hitler had first conceived of the war against the USSR as something to be achieved after defeating the rest of Europe, and therefore the planned invasion of Britain was to be the final step before the Soviet invasion. »
• « One of the most significant memorials to Holocaust victims is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, conceived by a commission assembled by President Jimmy Carter in 1978 and finally dedicated by President Bill Clinton in 1993. »
• « Thus, as Beauvoir described, it was not just that men dominated, patronised and often violently abused women, but that being a woman was the exception to every kind of political theory, philosophy and history ever conceived. Women were, in a sense, not really part of history. »