Sentence examples for incursion an from inspiring English sources

"This was in the early 60's," we are told in another story, a time when the heroine was "much involved in the peace movement" and saw her suitor's declaration of love as "an incursion, an invasion".

But the very premise is flawed: not all captivity narratives, let alone all our foundational dramas (there are others), involve a "homeland" incursion, an anachronistic formulation to begin with (Puritans like Rowlandson viewed England as the homeland, and the New World as howling wilderness).

I also went to Gaza before the last Israeli incursion a couple of years ago.

It was a time of enormous change — the Vietnam War, the Cambodia incursion, a time of turmoil — and there were very few women around.

Israeli Ambassador Daniel Ayalon called the expected ground incursion a "limited" mission designed to "mop up" Hezbollah strongholds and weapons sites.

But it is a tiny, almost microscopic incursion, a nasty little assault that perhaps belongs to the schoolyard, in keeping with the register of malign absurdity.

Rizvi called the incursion "a transgression of authority".

The Jarabulus Military Council, which is allied with the Syrian Democratic Forces, called the Turkish incursion "a dangerous precedent and escalation".

During the incursion a group of organized criminals abandoned a van, containing a bag of marijuana, in the La Playa community.

In the latest incursion, a man jumped the White House fence earlier this month, and managed to get deep inside the building before being tackled.

Equally it can be about a creating an incursion into a competitors' space which forces them to manoeuvre, destroying value for them, and creating value for yourself.