At present, Simon manifests in studiedly low-key black tie, with even the collars of his open-necked dress shirt taped invisibly to its front, lest one should ride up during a faux-reflective verdict, and – in a single unauthorised incursion of real life – destroy every heavily fortified illusion for which he has worked.
That is before al Qaeda and the Taliban, before the creation of Israel or the Arab-Israeli conflict, before Khomeini, before Saudi Arabia, before drones, before most Americans even knew what jihad or Islam was, and, most importantly, well before the United States had engaged in a single military incursion overseas or even had an established foreign policy.
There was not a single effort at any incursion, there wasn't anything.
In a long profile of President Obama published last month by Vanity Fair, Michael Lewis suggested that the president feared the consequences of even a single casualty during the Libyan incursion, lest it create a narrative about how "a president elected to extract us from a war in one Arab country got Americans killed in another".
There was less success north of the river, where the British III Corps had only a single tank battalion in support, the terrain was rougher and the German incursion of 6 August had disrupted some of the preparations.
For the first phase, incursion to mobilisation of a response, epidemics were seeded with a single randomly placed index case.
Taking other transects of the mouse contact hybrid zone in Europe as representative of the Czech-Bavarian contact before the Y incursion, originally there were sharp coincident changes for sex chromosome markers, and centred on these more gradual clines at autosomal loci: the actions of many barrier loci were focused in a single geographic region.
The new Aurangabad has modern factories and broad, brilliantly lighted commercial streets and houses as big as hotels and health clubs and cybercafes and Chinese restaurants and even, in what is widely considered the single deepest incursion of cosmopolitan culture, a Domino's Pizza.
The battle near Ohrid occurred as a result of an Albanian incursion into Ottoman territory.
But this was a serious incursion".
