Sentence examples for anticipated invasion from inspiring English sources

He enlisted in the Navy during World War II and served on a troop transport that was sent overseas for the anticipated invasion of Japan.

D'Estaing instead headed north, and the anticipated invasion never materialised.

The last claimant was William of Normandy, against whose anticipated invasion King Harold Godwinson made most of his preparations.

Nonetheless, Stephen could now focus his attention on the anticipated invasion of England by Robert and Matilda's forces.

2. There are strident objections to the anticipated invasion of the folk devils ("All those virus-ridden Africans are going to come here").

Harold assembled an army and a fleet to repel William's anticipated invasion force, deploying troops and ships along the English Channel for most of the summer.

The German occupiers, anticipating invasion, laid more than two million land mines on the west coast of Denmark.

Anticipating invasion, some 30,000 of the islands' then 104,000 residents evacuated before the arrival of German forces at the end of June and beginning of July 1940.

This framework provides new insights into the nature of climate niche shifts and our ability to anticipate invasions, and may help in guiding the design of experiments for assessing causes of niche changes.

An 1871 story called "The Battle of Dorking," which anticipated an invasion of England by a German power, inspired hundreds of invasion novels, many of them bestsellers, including the first literary thrillers, "The Riddle of the Sands" by Erskine Childers and later "The Thirty-Nine Steps" by John Buchan.

As it happened, one leader of the Sunni resistance was a Jordanian revolutionary jihadi, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who had established his own training camp in Afghanistan in 1999 at Herat and then, after the US invasion of Afghanistan and attack on the Taliban, had moved to Iraq via Iran in preparation for the generally anticipated US invasion.