Sentence examples for incursions as from inspiring English sources

Also that year he returned to Ukraine to defend against continuing Tatar and Moldovan incursions, as well as Cossack unrest.

In a periodic report to the Security Council, Mr. Annan said that Israel saw the incursions as a "necessary security measure".

Except for such minor incursions as those of Ferdinand Magellan's surviving ship in 1522 and the Englishman Sir Francis Drake's voyage around the world in 1577 80, the Portuguese operated in the East for nearly a century without European competition.

Charles F. Seaton, a spokesman for New York City Transit, described such incursions as "trespassing, punishable by law," and said "anyone caught defacing M.T.A. property is subject to arrest and fine".

One person familiar with the results told The A.P. that that pilots reported at least twice as many bird strikes, near midair collisions and runway incursions as other government monitoring systems show.

Indonesia's relationship with Australia has been fraught over asylum seeker policies, after Australia's navy and customs vessels entered Indonesian waters in a series of inadvertent incursions as part of the government's boat turnback policy.

Cl− increases in groundwater where there is sea water incursion as well as where salt panning is active and SO42− increases in areas where anthropogenic activities prevail.

Mr. Netanyahu was informed of the incursion as he was being flown north in a helicopter.

Next day Indian troops freed the hostages.India regards the Kashmir incursion as a "betrayal of trust" by Pakistan.

The Russians cannot have meant this particular incursion as a signal, since it was meant to stay secret.

The Iraqi government was also working furiously to avert an incursion, as a delegation of senior Iraqi officials traveled to Ankara for talks on Friday.