Sentence examples for threatening invasion from inspiring English sources

It was a tiny, deeply threatening invasion.

But the North has regularly criticised the drills as threatening invasion.

President Putin's army and special services operate in eastern Ukraine, often covertly, supporting separatist formations that terrorize the local population and openly threatening invasion.

BAGHDAD, Oct. 22 — Deadly raids into Turkey by Kurdish militants holed up in northern Iraq are the focus of urgent diplomacy, with Turkey threatening invasion of Iraq and the United States begging for restraint while expressing solidarity with Turkish anger.

Now, with American forces slated to leave, Turkey, which has been threatening invasion for years, now has an opening.

Thrust into a position of leadership "with no experience of the affairs of state, he [Zara Yaqob] was faced by a kingdom seething with plots and rebellions, a Church riven with heresies, and outside enemies constantly threatening invasion".

Having stoked conflict, raised tension to breaking point and threatened invasion, he made a magnanimous concession.

The plan proposed by Hoover, the head of the F.B.I. from 1924 to 1972, stretched that clause to include "threatened invasion" or "attack upon United States troops in legally occupied territory".

By agreement with the British, they were sent to the Middle East along with thousands of Polish civilians, to bolster defences against Rommel's threatened invasion.

But a blockade alone could choke off the Confederacy from trade as well as well as alliances with Europe, plus threaten invasion, particularly of Texas.

After a further brief Syrian campaign in 596/595, Nebuchadrezzar had to act in eastern Babylonia to repel a threatened invasion, probably from Elam (modern southwestern Iran).