Sentence examples for immediate invasion from inspiring English sources

The reports strengthen our conviction that whatever threat Iraq posed did not require an immediate invasion without international support.

Some officers gave orders to arrest or shoot any French civilians encountered in the immediate invasion areas.

The common thread here is that the Bush administration took unlikely worst-case scenarios and inflated them drastically to justify an immediate invasion without international support.

According to articles published in Indian newspapers after his death, General Manekshaw firmly resisted demands by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the spring of 1971 for an immediate invasion of East Pakistan in support of rebels there.

Further dislocation accompanied the outbreak of World War I. Locally this involved the immediate invasion of the German-held Kamerun (Cameroon) by Nigerian forces, followed by a costly campaign that lasted until 1916.

The waiter was referring not to the impending arrival of mass tourism but to a more immediate invasion: a tour bus had just pulled up by the entrance gate and two dozen well-heeled tourists in their sixties were pouring into the lobby, the villa's former living room; a small army of uniformed waiters showed them to their table.

There is also, at bottom, the Jewish psyche shaped by history: the centuries of persecution culminating in the Holocaust, the triumph of the creation of Israel in 1948 and the immediate invasions by Arab neighbours to eradicate it and the unceasing rejectionism, wars and attacks since then.

One of Sisco's most delicate assignments was in July 1974, when an attempted coup against President Makarios of Cyprus provoked an immediate Turkish invasion.

After carefully considering the alternatives of an immediate U.S. invasion of Cuba (or air strikes of the missile sites), a blockade of the island, or further diplomatic maneuvers, President John F. Kennedy decided to place a naval "quarantine," or blockade, on Cuba to prevent further Soviet shipments of missiles.

Most men in the prison were scooped up in the aftermath of the immediate US invasion and destruction of Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks.

These victories saved France from the immediate threat of invasion.