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Of all the world's half-conquered but still-resisting nations, China has fought the longest.

From Time Magazine Archive

So too Ireland: she was half-conquered by the Normans, broken, racked, ruined and crucified, a century before the idea of Nationhood had come into existence, and while centrifugalism was still the one force in Europe.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth

In addition, the Scotch were growling over the border, there was the perennial trouble in half-conquered Ireland, and his allies abroad in Flanders and in Brabant were clamoring for the arrears of their subsidies.

From Sir Nigel by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

It was at this moment that Louis Napoleon made up his mind that an Emperor was what Mexico needed, and sent out the unfortunate Archduke Maximilian to rule a wild, boisterous, and only half-conquered people.

From The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1. No. 23, April 15, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Bishop, Julia Truitt

Some half-conquered country lay beyond, and the Germans in the forests were at this time under a brave leader called Arminius.

From Young Folks' History of Rome by Yonge, Charlotte Mary