Sentence examples for enemy invasion from inspiring English sources

(When his overbearing father, played by Bill Camp, turns up there, unheralded, it's an enemy invasion).

Wheeler had served in Bosnia and the Falklands and approached the refugee influx as if it were an enemy invasion.

It's a subtle, historically accurate but not unsympathetic look at ordinary people suddenly tested by war, defeat and enemy invasion.

Further investigation reveals a plan to repel an enemy invasion and an oath of secrecy sworn, in blood, by members of the Home Guard.

Its machine-gun slits looked directly into the tunnel entrance and south to the sea beyond it, from where the enemy invasion was expected to come.

For the first time in nearly two centuries, an enemy invasion had taken place, and, when it was followed by a Swedish aggression, a veritable "deluge" overtook the Commonwealth.

These localities were strategically situated along the main routes to the city, and formed the outer defenses of Constantinople throughout its history, serving to muster forces, confront enemy invasions or at least buy time for the capital's defenses to be brought in order.

Except the enemy is an invasion of aliens.

Thrust into a position of leadership "with no experience of the affairs of state, he [Zara Yaqob] was faced by a kingdom seething with plots and rebellions, a Church riven with heresies, and outside enemies constantly threatening invasion".

They never saw active service, but their intended role was to surface as secret agents, sabotaging and harrying the enemy, after a German invasion.

In fact, most of Britain's 55 surviving seaside piers have been rebuilt or remodelled more than once since they were first erected, not least in the years after the second world war, when fears that they might be used to land enemy troops in an invasion led to many being partly blown up.