Sentence examples for would have overrun from inspiring English sources

The protection the navy afforded Athens allowed it to prosper, to fend off the enemies that would have overrun it and changed its tolerant and inquisitive character.

It was, for example, deemed "provocative" when a senior Russian admiral approvingly declared that if such ships had been in the fleet in 2008, Russian forces would have overrun Georgia "within 40 minutes", rather than in 26 hours.

They would have overrun their newly conquered slaves with affordable health care, those savages.

Lowney declined in order to shoot a film in Ireland with Terence Stamp; production on it was scheduled to begin in October 1997 and would have overrun into Cold Feets production calendar.

Had the Americans given way, the German advance would have overrun the vast supply depots around Leige and Spa and possibly have changed the outcome of the Battle of Bulge.

Indeed, diplomats in the capital, Bamako, and at the United Nations say that if French warplanes and troops had not joined the effort, the Islamist fighters would have overrun the entire country.

Rebels claimed to have overrun nearby Olenivka as well.

"I really think," Butts told me in civilian mode, "that without Giuliani, we would have been overrun".

If I had tried to play 4-3-3 we would have been overrun by them," said the 62-year-old following the canny 2-0 victoverover Chile that ensured they topped the group and avoided the hosts Brazil in the second round.

Terrified that if Iraq were permitted to retain Kuwait, which it had overrun, it would come after them too, the Arab states supplied bases and financial support.

What would have happened if the Nazis had overrun Britain?