sentence1: Having held out for some three years, the Zealots could only watch in horror as the ramp neared completion, knowing only too well that, if taken alive, their women and children would be horribly brutalized, their men would be butchered in the ring by animals or gladiators, and the survivors would be sold as slaves.
sentence2: The Zealots weren't worried about the ramp, because they knew the plan would fail.