Sentence examples for pending invasion from inspiring English sources

The Bush administration sent an envoy who confronted North Korea — and the regime was said to have belligerently confirmed it in 2002, just as the Bush administration was mostly focused on the pending invasion of Iraq.

Pointing to the recent discovery of a Shakespeare first folio on a Scottish island, Fforde also directs his readers' attention to the "Frightfully Bad" quarto, which "featured Hamlet with the now notorious 'Scooby Doo' ending, where King Hamlet turns out to be Fortinbras simply pretending to be a ghost in order to divert attention away from his pending invasion".

This duty kept Patton busy in early 1944 preparing for the pending invasion.

I organized the Wolverines and we prepared to defend the Bronx against the pending invasion.

The Peninsula is also facing a pending invasion of king crabs that are no longer being held at bay by low temperatures.

As for Iraq, Zimmerman notes, "At the start of the war in Iraq, in March 2003, there were millions on the streets and millions more lobbying against the pending invasion.

The goal of the plot was to mislead Hitler himself about the pending Allied invasion of Sicily and deflect his defense toward Sardinia and the Balkans.

Last month, Judge Denny Chin approved a prosecution request to introduce as evidence the diary of a former Iraqi oil official that indicates that in 2003 Mr. Wyatt told the Hussein government details about the pending American invasion of Iraq.

While the two leaders had a strong and affectionate personal rapport, the British official papers reveal how little warning Mrs. Thatcher was given about the pending military invasion, a move that left the British irritated, bewildered and disappointed.

Amid torrential rain and freezing cold, a council of war headed by Smyth decided to postpone the invasion pending more thorough preparations that would enable the embarkation of whole force.

But with the U.S. invasion pending, they pleaded with us, "Go home and tell your government that our liberation will not come on the wings of U.S. bombs or from the barrels of US guns.