conquering hero
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“The idea that he descends on Westminster like he is a conquering hero, it doesn’t have a logic,” said Philip Cowley, a politics professor at Queen Mary University of London.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
Fifty-seven years after escaping the Nostromo, Ripley is found by a salvage crew and returns to Earth a conquering hero.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2025
And after his brush with an assassin’s bullet in Pennsylvania in mid-July, he arrived at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee a day later as a conquering hero to his supporters.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2024
When Australia’s George Miller came here in 2016 to serve as jury president, just months after his “Mad Max: Fury Road” won six Oscars, he swept in like a conquering hero.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2024
Ptolemy returned to the capital as a conquering hero.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
