Sentence examples for a brief incursion from inspiring English sources

There was, however, a brief incursion into deep abstraction.

Apart from a brief incursion of irregular rhythms and dissonant tones, the music forged a blissful détente between two disparate modes of expression.

Israeli forces also made a brief incursion into Gaza, near Rafah, where they exchanged gunfire with Palestinian militants, the military said.

In 1914, after a brief incursion into the city, the invading Germans dug in 18 miles (29 km) east; their final drive in 1918 was stopped 8 miles (13 km) from the city.

[After a brief incursion early Monday, the Israeli Army withdrew from the Palestinian-ruled city of Nablus, where it fought gunmen and briefly detained two men, Palestinian security sources and witnesses said.

On Friday, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a military checkpoint in the Gaza Strip, wounding two Israeli soldiers, while Israeli forces made a brief incursion at the southern end of the strip, near Egypt.

A US official told Reuters on Tuesday that Washington believed the jet was hit inside Syrian air space after a very brief incursion into Turkey, an assessment based on detection of the heat signature of the aircraft.

Gen. Mike Herzog told reporters that Israel had no intent to topple Hamas, and the IDF's recommendation (again, as reported in Ha'Aretz) was that "more pressure...be put on Hamas to make it agree to a long-term cease-fire under conditions more favorable to Israel" by an intensive but brief incursion.

His remarks came just hours after the latest salvos prompted a brief Israeli incursion in the area.

General Ademi is charged in connection with the deaths of Serbs after a brief Croatian incursion into rebel Serbian territory in 1993.

HAVING won what they called the "American war", chased off a brief Chinese incursion and reunited the country, Vietnam's Communist leaders chose a diplomatic policy that turned out to be a disaster: cosying up to Moscow.