Sentence examples for serious raid from inspiring English sources

Schooling now wondered if this was a precursor to a more serious raid.

The diocese had suffered a serious raid from the Welsh in 1055, and during his administration, Ealdred continued the rebuilding of the cathedral church as well as securing the cathedral chapter's rights.

Turning once again, and this time more generally, to the question of invasion, I would observe that there has never been a period in all these long centuries of which we boast when an absolute guarantee against invasion, still less against serious raids, could have been given to our people.

In 793 Lindisfarne was devastated by the first serious Viking raid in England, but Cuthbert's shrine seems to have escaped damage.

"We had serious police raids and groups turned up on our doorstep, issuing search warrants looking for Nembutal".

All the most serious charges armed raids by tax collectors, unjustified subpoenas, aggressive collection of taxes people didn't actually owe were later proved false.

Four of the alleged syndicate ringleaders, including two Irish nationals, are in custody on serious fraud charges after raids on Gold Coast offices connected to the alleged scam by the CCC and police on Monday.

The UK's Serious Fraud Office raided Bredenkamp's Knightsbridge townhouse and his offices in Berkshire.

The talk has been that the European champions had not met any serious opposition, yet raiding parties to north London have now returned with a full complement of points from Arsenal and Tottenham.

A more serious aspect of the raid was the desecration of the memorial fountain erected by the side of the South Ballater to Braemar road, which skirts and practically runs through the golf course.

In Russia, where the authorities in Moscow have long contended that the insurgency that has simmered in Russia's predominately Muslim North Caucasus has been masterminded from outside the country, a statement from the office of President Dmitri A. Medvedev called the U.S. raid a "serious success" against international terrorism.