Sentence examples similar to decisive incursion from inspiring English sources

He wanted to settle the eastern question and the persistent Turkic incursions and settlements with a decisive military victory, and he understood that raising another army would be both difficult and expensive.

In 1973 he was responsible for the "Eagleton amendment", which denied the administration funds for Nixon's incursion into Cambodia and was a decisive step towards ending the Vietnam war in 1975.

In the end, the army's enormous logistical advantage proved decisive, as the Indians, their options increasingly narrowed by an ongoing incursion of non-Indian populations, lost control of the physical and economic resources necessary to make war.

Politically, the Roman Empire was shaken to its foundation by the massive incursion of Gothic tribes into northern Greece (Thrace) and their decisive victory over the imperial army at Adrianople (modern Edirne) in 378.

king of France (i.e., Francia Occidentalis, the West Frankish kingdom) from 879 to 882, whose decisive victory over the Northmen in August 881, at Saucourt, Ponthieu, briefly stemmed the incursions of the Scandinavian invaders into northern France.

Louis III, (born 863 died Aug. 5, 882, Saint-Denis, Fr)., king of France (i.e., Francia Occidentalis, the West Frankish kingdom) from 879 to 882, whose decisive victory over the Northmen in August 881, at Saucourt, Ponthieu, briefly stemmed the incursions of the Scandinavian invaders into northern France.

In the New Worlds, as had become the case in Africa after the colonizing and enslaving incursions of acquisitive peoples from Europe and the Arabian peninsula, the recurrent and decisive foci of life in the racialized crucibles were the struggles to endure while resolving mind- and soul-rending tensions that threatened and otherwise conditioned self- and community-formation and living.

Cameron said he had not ruled out any options against the militants — save for a ground force incursion — but with his priorities directed toward more immediate domestic issues, such as the upcoming Scottish referendum for independence, decisive military action abroad may not be forthcoming.

Russia denied any incursion.

This decisive battle, known as the Battle of the Three Kings, was claimed as a Moroccan victory and put an end to European incursions onto Moroccan soil for three centuries.

Calm about the hipster incursion.