Sentence examples for major invasion from inspiring English sources

About 3.5 million years ago, the mollusks of the North Pacific staged a major invasion of the North Atlantic.

Searching a computer is a major invasion of privacy — one that may be necessary to protect the country's security.

Three years ago, Israel mounted a major invasion of Gaza that lasted three weeks and killed about 1,300 people.

Butterfly scientists believe the summer of 2009 - with thousands already spotted from Cornwall to Scotland - could surpass the last major invasion of 1996.

While conducting numerous raids in and out of Gaza over the last year, Israel has also periodically threatened a major invasion of the densely populated coastal strip.

Though China's Army outnumbers Taiwan's six to one, the country lacks a transport fleet large enough to ferry a major invasion force across the Taiwan Strait.

In 1993, a leading apostle, Boyd K. Packer, spoke, with alarm, of the "major invasions into the membership of the Church" by feminists, homosexuals, and scholars and intellectuals.

The fragility of Mobutu's power base was demonstrated in 1977 and '78, when the country's main opposition movement, the Congolese National Liberation Front Frontt de la Libération Nationale Congolaise; FLNC), operating from Angola, launched two major invasions into Shaba (which Katanga was called from 1972 to 1997).

Russia has endured major invasions from western powers for centuries; in particular, Sweden, France and Germany as well as Britain (again with France) in the Crimea and of course Britain, America, France and others invading northern Russia via Murmansk and Archangel at the end of the first world war.

Israel killed thousands of Gazans in three major invasions since 2008.

He did, however, ask a panel of military experts to offer an estimate of how many Americans might be killed if the United States launched the two major invasions of the Japanese home islands scheduled for November 1 , 1945 and March 1 , 1946