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incursions
1. There were no more incursions for the next several weeks, but nonetheless everyone was on the alert
2. He received messages from the other Holds and discovered that several had had incursions also
3. Taking a few more general measurements, gauged by his own steps, he was satisfied of the necessary tasks required for preventing any future incursions
4. To divide it was to ruin it, and to expose every part of it to be oppressed and swallowed up by the incursions of its neighbours
5. When Jesus came onto the scene of this ancient diorama, he was an instantly polarizing distraction to the Jewish yearning for the appearance of another champion, the new judge who would resurrect their national entity, and identity once more as the Hasmonean Maccabees had seemed to accomplish for a while, during the interregnum in which the Greeks tried to fend off Roman incursions into their fractured Hellenistic world
6. You are aware of the fishing incursions of your fellow Ferengi, I presume?”
7. I supposed it was to check any incursions from the Choson, however unlikely that seemed
8. after the incursions of several Spanish expeditions (Pardo, Narvaez, de Leon, and De Soto) because of the diseases they brought with them
9. Since the Dominican Republic is very close to Cuba, there was quite an extensive discussion of Fidel Castro’s government internal problems and international incursions, such as in Mozambique, the deaths in Bolivia of Jorge Massetti and the Argentinian “Che” Guevara a few months after his almost fatal fight with Castro in Havana, and Castro’s chronic accusation of United States’ interference in Latin American affairs
10. The area north of this line was either not secure at all or was at risk of barbarian incursions and chronic revolt
11. “two patrol our northern borders in order to defeat any unwanted incursions into the subject
12. New military defences are being prepared, I am informed, to prevent any future incursions from the sea
13. positive incursions at its base
14. While none had reported seeing new incursions by the mysterious fleet,
15. Bill said they were used in small military incursions to have the least amount of destruction, city block destruction
16. Unfortunately most of his account was lost during his battles with the farmers and his incursions into various lands with his robot army of 300 which Mom relayed to me from time to time
17. “We are ready to sign a mutual treaty of non-aggression as long as Princess Margaret and Group Captain Townsend are returned safely and that the Imperium refrains from incursions into the past from now on
18. In the case of Pakistan, which had lived through multiple wars with India and watched diligently its eastern borders and airspace against possible Indian incursions, the Pakistani Air Force was a factor that could be ignored only at one’s peril
19. We just exercised that mandate by shooting down Egyptian planes violating Palestinian airspace and I fully expect more such Arab armed incursions in the hours and days to come
20. to the Maquis incursions,” Undine said
21. this was leading – one of Skye’s regular incursions into the very unromantic life of
22. This was to be the first of a series of incursions and counter-incursions that would escalate to the Cambodian– Vietnamese War in 1979
23. All along the line of the Wall were Roman camps that we could use to base troops and defend against Pictish incursions
24. Over the wall and into the north was a rampart built to hold back Saxon incursions, as if such men could be stopped by mounds of earth
25. He started his incursions on the links and started playing for nine holes with other beginners
26. Why? Because the Spanish resisted the Roman incursions into their land longer and harder than many others did
27. marking distinct incursions from Obalid and his ilk
28. Israel and Babylon to the Greek and Roman incursions into the so-called Middle East
29. “Don’t you think the king would be better able to deal with Scottish incursions if he were in the north of
30. One whose civil code protects the legal person against harassment, libel, and other incursions against liberty
31. For his part, he could not let go of the bait once he had bitten, and he continued his almost daily incursions
32. Common examples would be things like the loss of a giant customer, or market incursions from a powerful competitor
33. The suspicions and uneasiness existing in the midst of the heterogeneous population attracted to the new colony, the constant state of alarm from the threatened incursions by the Spanish from the South and the presence of Indians and negroes, furnish plenty of material for an exciting tale of which a high-spirited and refined young woman is the central figure throughout
34. It may reasonably be expected that the good effects of this critical defeat and dispersion of a combination of savages, which appears to have been spreading to a greater extent, will be experienced not only in a cessation of the murders and depredations committed on our frontier, but in the prevention of any hostile incursions otherwise to have been apprehended
35. Lawrence, and the Lakes to Fort Malden, and from thence to the Mississippi, do we not find almost every point and place where there are inhabitants, subject to the incursions of the enemy? Have they not more troops on and near the line than we have? Yes, sir, they have ten to our one, and a militia which the Government of Canada have been fully vigilant in training
36. He again called for information as to the object of the army now proposed to be raised; declaring, that, if the President should say they were necessary for the protection of New Orleans, to be employed against the Indians, or to repel incursions from Canada, (although this seemed not to be much thought of,) he should not refuse to grant them
37. Sir, said he, you well know that we cannot so guard any part of our extended line of frontier as to prevent entirely the incursions of savages, so long as they have a place of safety or hiding place upon our borders; by reason of which a few desperate savages, well armed with their rifles, tomahawks, and scalping knives, and paid for the scalps of our citizens, may travel in the night, watch their place of assassination undiscovered, and fall upon our infant settlements thus exposed and massacre them without distinction of age or sex, and not leave even an infant to lisp the sad tale of sorrow to the passing stranger
38. It would seem with the force of fifty-five thousand regular troops, we are to conquer all the residue of North America; exterminate every tawny infidel this side of the Isthmus of Darien, and defend a seacoast many hundred miles in extent from the incursions of the enemy! This is truly a gigantic project
39. Here we have no powerful neighbor whose incursions we dread
40. In short, sir, the Indian towns have been swept from the mouth to the source of the Wabash, and a hostile country has been penetrated far beyond the most daring incursions of any campaign during the former Indian war
