Sentence examples for trying to overrun from inspiring English sources

Obama warned of the dangers of the Sunni extremists trying to "overrun sacred Shia sites".

I didn't want them to mistake me for an insurgent trying to overrun their post.

As the night unfolded, vendors ambled through peaceful streets, past couples holding hands and men still wearing bandages from their fight with government supporters trying to overrun the square.

One civilian was killed Monday by a stray bullet when United Nations soldiers fired over the heads of the protesters trying to overrun the Goma base, Mr. Doss said from Kinshasa.

TO GET TO THE HEADQUARTERS of the Strategic Plans Division, the branch of the Pakistani government charged with keeping the country's growing arsenal of nuclear weapons away from insurgents trying to overrun the country, you must drive down a rutted, debris-strewn road at the edge of the Islamabad airport, dodging stray dogs and piles of uncollected garbage.

Nazila Fathi (NYT) PACIFIC FIJI: GUN BATTLE -- Government soldiers exchanged gunfire with ethnic Fijian rebels trying to overrun a roadblock near Parliament, where about 60 gunmen have been holding Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, an ethnic Indian, and more than 30 members of his government hostage since May 19.

In July, they tried to overrun a new American outpost in Nuristan province, killing nine Americans.

In towns and villages throughout the region, protesters attacked and destroyed government buildings and tried to overrun police stations.

With the resumption of the civil war in 1983, the southern resistance repeatedly tried to overrun the central government's pivotal military garrison at Juba.

Spanish Sites offers a three-hour walking tour of key civil war sites, focusing on two ferocious weeks in November 1936 when Franco first tried to overrun the capital.

A3 Fighting the Iraqi Insurgency United States forces killed at least 25 insurgents who tried to overrun an American combat outpost in Mosul.