Sentence examples for great invasion from inspiring English sources

Classic headlines like "OUR GREAT LOSS: Death of President Lincoln" and "ALLIED ARMIES LAND IN FRANCE IN THE HAVRE-CHERBOURG AREA; GREAT INVASION IS UNDER WAY" and "MEN WALK ON MOON" convey a remarkable historical immediacy.

But there comes a point where police intrusion is so great, even if there is no traditional expectation of privacy, that the very concept of freedom is lost by such a great invasion of the public sector.

Lee too had once launched a great invasion across the Mason-Dixon line, but unlike Sherman's, his fated expedition into the enemy's heartland ruined his own army, led to thousands of Union dead and prolonged the war instead of shortening it.

Had events followed their normal course, the resurgent Canaanites, who had not been driven from the coastal plain or the Plain of Esdraelon, might have overwhelmed the scattered and unorganized Israelite clans, but this was prevented by the great invasion of the Sea Peoples in the time of Ramses III, in the early decades of the 12th century bce.

He wanted to intervene on several occasions in the internal affairs at Constantinople but was prevented from doing so by a threat from the Visigoth chieftain Alaric, whom he checked at Pollentia in 402, then by the Ostrogoth Radagaisus' raid in 406, and finally by the great invasion of the Gauls in 407.

The Sun has written of Wembley preparing this weekend for "the great invasion of our Anglo-Saxon cousins".

In the meantime, the Goths had been converted to Arianism by Ulfilas during the period of Constantius and Valens, thus presaging conflicts that were to come after the great invasions.

Grinding across the Soviet Union was the greatest invasion force in history: four million German soldiers; 207 Wehrmacht divisions; 3,300 tanks.

MacGregor says re-arresting and re-sampling a suspect following his conviction outside England and Wales could prove a greater invasion of their privacy than simply holding onto the DNA and fingerprints samples already taken from them.

In this "greatest invasion in history", Lovat wanted pipes to lead the way.He was ordering now, as they waded up Sword Beach, in that drawly voice of his: "Give us a tune, piper".

Thus, the greatest invasion threats may come from species that combine tolerance of sub-optimal conditions with intermediate rates of habitat modification.