Invasions

That highlights the one unquestionable good of those twin invasions -- the possible self-rule of Afghanistan and Iraq after suffering years of horrible dictatorships. ❋ Unknown (2004)

They owned estates in Central Russia, in those fertile steppes in which the ancient Muscovite czars had settled colonists from all over the country for their protection against Tartar invasions from the South. ❋ Unknown (1933)

Many of them live in "invasions" - slums constructed on public lands on the outskirts of Medellin, Cartagena, and elsewhere. ❋ Abhay N (2007)

Preventing Kuwait-style invasions is fairly easy for the U.S. with our air supremacy, and we don’t have much trouble finding an adequate number of countries in the region to host our airplanes. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It takes a cultivated ignorance to call the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan wars. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They began a terrible xenophobic campaign against non-arian citizens (jewish people were not the only victims, just the most privileged and wealthy of them) but the reasons were truly economical (nationalism and patriotism have always been the tools to drive ignorant people to war) and the invasions were the way they thought they could win markets. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The large scale involves recalling the invasions by the British in that area of the world on a number of occasions, and the politics that was going on at the time, and the similarity of the situations and arguments. ❋ Cjohnson (2005)

Some historians had speculated that their depiction on scrolls recording the invasions was a later addition. ❋ Unknown (2003)

But this was quickly disputed by delegates who were were adamant that the invasions were a "political gimmick" aimed at gathering support for the ruling ZANU-PF in the urban areas, where the party lost all parliamentary seats in last year's polls. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Instead, critics say, the invasions were a deliberate ploy by a desperate Mugabe to divert attention from his government's failings ahead of parliamentary elections due in May. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Hage Geingob - that the invasions were a "wake-up call," and noting that the crisis in Zimbabwe, which is scaring off investors, was affecting their countries too. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Critics charge, however, that the invasions are a campaign of intimidation ahead of parliamentary elections due next month, in which the MDC is expected to present a serious challenge to ❋ Unknown (2000)

Mugabe said the invasions were a political protest against land ownership imbalances dating back to the colonial era in Rhodesia, as Zimbabwe was known before independence in 1980. ❋ Unknown (2000)

On June 9, 1944, three days after the first landings, he then sent fictitious intelligence back to Germany, via his handlers in Madrid, claiming that the invasions were a "red herring" ❋ Unknown (2011)

In this chapter I shall show briefly, by what causes, and in what manner, they be again destroyed; not meaning to say anything concerning the dissolution of a commonwealth from foreign invasions, which is as it were the violent death thereof, I shall speak only of sedition, which is also the death of the commonwealth, but like to that which happeneth to a man from sickness and distemper. ❋ Unknown (1650)