What is "invading"

Usage examples of "invading".

But the friendship of Heraclius and Mahomet was of short continuance: the new religion had inflamed rather than assuaged the rapacious spirit of the Saracens, and the murder of an envoy afforded a decent pretence for invading, with three thousand soldiers, the territory of Palestine, that extends to the eastward of the Jordan.

A third wall rose beyond it and varied roofs and towers could be made out behind that, all tall enough to give vantage over the outer defences, not so much as a paving slab left where an invading enemy could stand without a rain of arrows puncturing his pretensions.

Iraq had an unemployment problem before the Gulf War, which was one of the predicaments Saddam believed he could escape from by invading Kuwait.

What this means is that, especially given the difficulty of convincing Saddam beforehand that this was the course the United States would take, it was probably impossible for the United States to have deterred Saddam from invading Kuwait.

United States, it is doubtful that he could have been deterred from invading Kuwait in 1990.

If there is anything that would solidify American popular support for invading Iraq and rally international opinion in our favor, it would be an Iraqi preemptive attack on our forces in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia before a shot had been fired by the United States and after the American president had indicated that he was still considering other options.

Only when the administration can meet this standard should we embark upon so large an additional endeavor as invading Iraq.

It had been resolved, that whilst these two great detachments penetrated into the opposite extremes of the Persian dominions, the main body, under the command of Alexander himself, should support their attack, by invading the centre of the kingdom.

The villages on either side of the Meyn, which were plentifully stored with corn and cattle, felt the ravages of an invading army.

Assyrians with the means of opposing a sudden deluge to the progress of an invading army.

He also knew that if that event should come to pass which the Captain warned of, the invading army reaching some unnamed goal, then whatever preparations he made would be meaningless.

When Duga saw the third company of two hundred come past early the next morning, he commented that he and his men had been led to believe they were invading a country of weak, ill-prepared cities.

It was early evening here in Elvandar, so it would be morning where the invading fleet would be found.

Arrows rained down on any who did not shield themselves, and men of the invading army fell into the water, their bodies pierced by multiple shafts.

They had been constantly righting with smaller elements of the invading forces, and had reports that similar fighting had begun near the sea gate, the northwestern gate.