Sentence examples for modern incursion from inspiring English sources

Instead, Napoleon organized and carried out the invasion of Egypt, which became the first modern incursion by the West into the Middle East.

It is a beautiful rotting corpse which has resisted every modern incursion and convenience that might have kept it alive … apart from the crass tourism which is systematically destroying its remains.

Napoleon's invasion of Egypt — the first modern incursion by the West into the Middle East — is often remembered as the beginning of Egyptology or a template for Napoleon's later campaigns.

He showed a cemetery, the first incursion of modern architecture in Georgetown, the house where Mrs. Dean Acheson lives, and a park in Foggy Bottom with wild grasses and herbs.

That will change as the details are filled in; and with the support of Mr Brown, who has described CEQA reform as "the Lord's work", campaigners are optimistic they will find satisfaction this year.CEQA is a law of conservation, designed to protect sensitive habitats from the incursions of modern industrial living.

Published in 1986, it remains a classic, a profile that extends from the tiniest wildflower in the tundra to the aurora borealis, from the musk ox to polar bear to narwhal to, as importantly, the Eskimo, the people who have been there for centuries and among whom Lopez immersed himself in their nomadic life, traditions, and reactions to the incursions of modern technological society.

The Kazakhs' traditional customs uneasily coexist alongside incursions of the modern world.

Meanwhile the United States has been engaged in a new form of war, one goal of which is to transform preliberal societies into modern democracies while protecting against incursions at home.

"A large element of Tibet's historical allure grew precisely out of its isolation, that it was untouched by the modern world and did not welcome incursions," Orville Schell, author of "Virtual Tibet," a book about the enduring Western fascination with Tibet, wrote in an e-mail message.

Thankfully, our history hasn't generated major Supreme Court wrangling over the government trying to billet Sergeant York in private houses; the biggest military incursion in private homes in modern memory is probably G.I. Joe.

Yet even if a tanks-and-soldiers invasion seems unlikely, a Russian invasion of another sort began long ago: one that resembles the slippery, post-modern war described by Mr Surkov.The nature of the incursion speaks volumes for the reach of the Russian state under Mr Putin.