6 sentences with 'relying'
Example sentences and phrases with the word relying and other words derived from it.
• « Heraclius managed to save the core of the Byzantine empire, Anatolia and the Balkans, by recruiting free peasants to fight instead of relying on mercenaries. He also focused on Anatolia as the breadbasket of the empire, temporarily abandoning Egypt but keeping its people fed. »
• « In the early years of the Viking period they tended to attack in small groups, relying on speed and stealth to plunder monasteries and settlements. As the decades passed, raiding bands gave way to large-scale invasion forces, numbering hundreds of ships and thousands of warriors. »
• « The Teutonic Order eventually surpassed the other crusading orders by centuries. The order was very successful in gaining the support of European princes and knights, relying on annual expeditions of visiting warriors to do most of the fighting while the Teutonic knights themselves literally held the fort in newly built castles. »
• « Shah Abbas switched from relying on tribal warriors in warfare to using slave soldiers armed with guns, a practice the Ottomans had already used to great effect in their conquests in the west. »
• « The Spanish crown, especially under a branch of the Bourbon royal family that became the royal dynasty of Spain in 1700, exercised direct control over colonial trade and taxation (rather than relying on a corporation as did the Dutch and English). »
• « For its part, Nazi Germany persisted in the war effort by relying on a simple and ancient institution: slavery. »