Sentence examples for an armed incursion from inspiring English sources

I asked him if he was uncomfortable with how he took up office, on the back of an armed incursion led by masked men.

In February, Mr. Kiram directed a younger brother, Agbimuddin Kiram, to lead several hundred fighters in an armed incursion into Borneo to regain part of the island, now the Malaysian state of Sabah, that his ancestors once ruled.

Members of the Treasury Committee clearly regarded the tax avoidance investigation as an armed incursion into their territory, and complain that they would have made a better job of it.

On March 11, an armed incursion occurred on the islands where three members of the Anjouan Militia loyal to President Bacar were captured and taken to Mohéli for interrogation.

While the world's gaze turned to one of the U.S.'s most historic elections that day, Israel launched an armed incursion into Gaza, accompanied by aerial bombing, killing six Hamas members and catapulting the region into a renewed wave of violent hostilities.

An armed incursion by Islamic militants a year ago into the neighboring republic of Dagestan led to the current Russian military crackdown in Chechnya.

The Finns assured Yartsev that Finland was committed to a policy of neutrality, and the country would resist any armed incursion.

On September 12th and 13th, when an Israeli armed incursion into the West Bank town of Jenin left at least 12 Palestinians dead, America's media hardly noticed.

The campaign against the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985, which solidified the principle of consent regarding Northern Ireland's constitutional position, saw Paisley share platforms with people who imported arms for loyalist groups from South Africa, and deputy leader Peter Robinson, a future First Minister, was arrested in a bizarre armed incursion across the border into the Republic.

It was the year that Cannes prepared itself, spectacularly, for a terrorist attack by staging a full-dress armed incursion the week before.

In his book, Allah's Mountains Sebastian Smith, a seasoned observer, has also noted that Basayev's armed incursion into Dagestan in 1999 may have been manipulated by Moscow to justify its second invasion of Chechnya.