Sentences with 'extinguishing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word extinguishing and other words derived from it.
• « After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, it was the Church that united Western Europe and provided a sense of European identity. That religious tradition would persist and spread, eventually extinguishing the so-called 'pagan' religions, despite the political fragmentation left after the fall of Rome. »
• « Notably, Prussia joined with Austria and Russia to partition the entire kingdom of Poland in 1772, extinguishing Polish independence until the 20th century. »
• « Despite being an enthusiastic advocate of 'enlightened' philosophy, Catherine the Great was as focused on Russian expansion as Peter I had been half a century earlier, seizing the Crimean peninsula from the Ottoman Empire, expanding Russian power in Central Asia and completely extinguishing Polish independence, with Poland divided between Russia, Prussia and Austria in 1795. At his death in 1796, Russia was more powerful than ever. »