Sentence examples for formidable invasion from inspiring English sources

After resisting the Ottoman empire's formidable invasion force during the Great Siege of 1565, they embarked on the ambitious project of rebuilding Valletta from scratch.

Its mountain ranges lie further apart, and its rivers are not such formidable barriers to invasion.

Assigned to the Eastern Fleet in the Indian Ocean in early 1942, Formidable covered the invasion of Diego Suarez in Vichy Madagascar in mid-1942 againsthehe possibility of a sortie by the Japanese into the Indian Ocean.

In 1587, as Philip II massed a formidable fleet for the invasion of England, Queen Elizabeth did not wait to be attacked.

An ascent up the ranks of the interwar Army to command his nation's greatest military endeavor during World War II, the D-Day invasion, required formidable political talent.

Despite this formidable barrier, saline to freshwater invasions have been overrepresented among aquatic invaders, relative to their rate of transport (Jażdżewski 1980; Lee and Bell 1999; Ricciardi and MacIsaac 2000; Cristescu et al. 2003, 2004; May et al. 2006; Ricciardi 2006; Lee and Gelembiuk 2008; Keller et al. 2011).

After using his formidable artillery train to take Norham Castle he marched south, where the invasion was stopped decisively on 9 September 1513 at the Battle of Flodden Field.

Inhibition of UPEC binding to bladder cells will potentially inhibit invasion and limit the bacteria's ability to build up formidable numbers within the bladder.

Formidable returned home for a brief refit before participating in Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa in November.

The ability to penetrate the formidable physical barrier of the plant cell wall is fundamental to successful pathogen invasion of plants and is facilitated by the secretion of cell wall degrading enzymes (CWDEs) by the pathogen.

Marshes, rivers and lowland sandy spits buffered Charleston from invasion by land, and her military defenses against a naval attack were formidable.