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Syrian militants, including Islamic State fighters, have penetrated Lebanon, threatening to rekindle the country’s ethnic war and undermining Hezbollah’s legitimacy as the guarantor of its security.
When the first well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 1859, it penetrated less than 70 feet into the soil before hitting oil.
Apps have penetrated nearly every area of modern life, from the consumption of news and entertainment to the management of health and finances.
As a customer, I felt as if I had penetrated the enemy’s strategy session.
But the images themselves – even redacted to shield the identities of the victims – have not penetrated the US media stream.
When it was deployed as part of the battle against the Islamist uprising of the 1990’s, insurgents penetrated a number of units.
As ISIS’s spread into Libya and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula underscores, there are plenty of loosely controlled areas available to be penetrated.
A North Korea open to Western businessmen might soon find itself penetrated by Western ideas.
High-speed Internet connections have penetrated remote corners of Russia in recent years, and blogging services such as LiveJournal have been prominent for a decade.
The souring of relations with the US when American commandos penetrated deep into Pakistan to kill Bin Laden was the culmination of both countries’ mutual disappointment.
ISIS has also penetrated Pakistan.
A Tale of Two COVID-19 ResponsesKARACHI – By the time COVID-19 reached South Asia, it had already penetrated most other regions of the world.
The US first reacted by attacking Shia militias in Iraq and Syria, to which Suleimani responded by fomenting a “spontaneous” mob that penetrated the US embassy compound in Baghdad.
Although renewables have penetrated 40% of the electricity market, coal still accounts for 38%.
'Now I will go and gather mushrooms quite on my own account, or else my harvest will not be noticeable,' said he, and went away from the skirts of the wood, where they were walking about on the short silky grass under sparsely growing old birches, and penetrated deeper into the wood, where among the white birch trunks grew grey-stemmed aspens and dark hazel bushes.
Afterwards, as they penetrated more deeply along other passages which only received a meagre share of air, the wind fell and the heat increased, a suffocating heat as heavy as lead.
But this time he caught a glimpse of the developing curves of her breast: he suddenly understood the warmth which had penetrated him.
In essence, I was already familiar with the whole forward part of this underwater boat, and here are its exact subdivisions going from amidships to its spur: the dining room, 5 meters long and separated from the library by a watertight bulkhead, in other words, it couldn't be penetrated by the sea; the library, 5 meters long; the main lounge, 10 meters long, separated from the captain's stateroom by a second watertight bulkhead; the aforesaid stateroom, 5 meters long; mine, 2.5 meters long; and finally, air tanks 7.5 meters long and extending to the stempost.
The outcome: an immense vista of reflections that penetrated every liquid molecule.
The smell of melted butter penetrated through the walls when he saw patients, just as in the kitchen one could hear the people coughing in the consulting room and recounting their histories.
She would fain have known their lives, have penetrated, blended with them.
During the whole of the first act of the opera, Mathilde sat dreaming of the man whom she loved with transports of the most intense passion; but in the second act a maxim of love sung, it must be admitted, to a melody worthy of Cimarosa, penetrated her heart.
He felt himself penetrated by love to the innermost recesses of his heart.
Through his agency might not Julien have penetrated to some extent into her father's intentions?
The thought of suicide, so absorbing in itself, and hitherto so remote from that proud spirit, penetrated its defences and soon reigned there with an absolute sway.
Until then he had felt himself penetrated by an unmixed contempt for all the men who were taking part in this trial.
The observation of Miss Peyton seldom penetrated beyond things that were visible, and to her the situation of Henry Wharton seemed to furnish an awful excuse for the fading cheeks and tearful eyes of her niece.
But the peddler was familiar with every turn in their difficult route, knew where the ravines might be penetrated, or where the streams were fordable.
The thick atmosphere of the dining-room stifled her; the shivering silence, the yellow gleams of the lamp penetrated her with vague terror, and inexpressible anguish.
When the report was completed, Laurent experienced lively joy, which penetrated his being like new life.
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