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Invasion in sentence

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So, the house is no longer suitable for invasion.
His campaigns in France and his brutal invasion of Scotland drained the treasury, and his attempt to pay for it by debasing the coinage led to constant inflation.
We are hearing, in essence, an invasion of the Arctic by subarctic species.
Following the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, a few statues and artifacts were relocated to Baghdad, but this statue remained.
This is in 1999, so 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq was still in the future, and he helped scout New York bombing targets.
And that's one of the reasons they say a robot invasion is happening.
But it's not just an alien invasion of intelligent machines.
And I don't even want to call this a lie, [Immigration without assimilation equals invasion] because it feels more like a hate crime to me.
It's hard to remember, but there was actually a time in the summer of 2003, even after the U.S. invasion, where, apart from looting, civilians were relatively safe in Iraq.
He was in Cyprus right after the Turkish invasion.
And it stays there through the invasion of Fallujah until the Samarra bombings in the Iraqi elections of '06.
Six years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the country still exists more on a map than it does in reality.
That meant he was instantly killed at the time of the Chinese invasion.
When war with Iraq was imminent, I realized the American troops would be very well covered, so I decided to cover the invasion from inside Baghdad.
Inside the man are discovered alien embryos -- he is the host for what could be a terrible alien invasion!
I don't care what neo-pagan axe you have to grind, but in the 18th century, "witchcraft" meant selling your soul to the Devil in exchange for diabolical powers; this whole fluffy white-witch goddess-worship "an'-it-harm-none" approach to witchcraft dates back, historically, about as far as the British Invasion.
The opening caption tries to tell us that the film is a portrayal of the current invasion of South American countries (Costa Rica, in this particular case) by North American oil companies, and the negative effects, both economic and environmental, of this invasion.
Jim Brown stars and produces a tale set in the Philippines just after the Japanese invasion.
My mother-in-law lived through the Italian invasion and German occupation...barely.
The base where the dead astronaut is taken to becomes the scene of a bizarre invasion plan from outer space.
The first detailing the lives and friendship of two boys (one a privileged Pashtun and the other a down-trodden Hazara) in late 70s Afghanistan before the invasion by the USSR works extremely well.
Cheaters, aside from the political machinations is an invasion of privacy and a violation of rights, furthermore most of these women assault the men!
The unpleasant "home invasion" genre can be traced back to Wes Craven's early sleazefest "Last House On The Left", with such nasty off-shoots as "I Spit On Your Grave", "Wrong Way" and "The Visitors" soon following in the footsteps of that film.
In its favor, the plot does manage to pull off an alien invasion without actually producing the aliens themselves.
These were there to protect us from the expected Soviet invasion, but they should come in handy, given the threat of very large insects.
November 11, 1969, Nixon ordering mass celebration for the 1918 armistice, which became the order for teachers at all levels to take their students to the celebration and the march, supporting thus the invasion of Cambodia that was in full swing.
It takes the invasion theme in somewhat different directions, but has done it in a very exciting way.
Charlie Wilson's War, based on a true story, tells the tale of a Texas congressman and a CIA agent working to secure funding for covert support of the Mujaheddin in 1980s Afghanistan following the USSR invasion of the country.
The film takes place in the 13th century during an invasion of Russian by Germans (Teutonic Knights - I think).
'Toy Soldiers' is the story of five misfits boys (most noteably being Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, and Kieth Coogan) attempt to save their school from a terrorist invasion after the American government imprisons the leader's father.
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