(n.) A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.
(v. t.) To pillage; to ravage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pope, whose foray into diplomacy helped spur negotiations between the US and Cuba , is expected to address the topic in a speech before the UN in New York in September.
(2) But the bedeviled foray also works as a potent allegory on the slow, vice-like workings of conscience, as guilt hunts down the protagonists with the shrieking remorselessness of Greek furies.
(3) So too does the new, smartly packaged version that forms part of the organisation's first foray into food retail.
(4) The Likud leader has the power, and possibly the inclination, to fatally undermine Obama's Middle East foray.
(5) The two women have worked together pretty much throughout their careers, from Saturday Night Live (highlights include Poehler playing Hillary Clinton to Fey's Sarah Palin) to their forays into film, Baby Mama and, of course, Mean Girls .
(6) Ghana’s first foray into opposition territory did not arrive until the seventh minute, when Asamoah Gyan surged away down the right and swung a cross in towards Jordan Ayew.
(7) Alexander's foray from the beltway to address hackers at Caesar's Palace had been compared to entering the lion's den.
(8) What can we infer from Lidl's foray into everyday British life – that something once a source of ignominy has become normalised?
(9) Arsenal's solitary foray into the transfer market during the January window was reserved for the final evening, when Arsène Wenger completed the £8.5m signing of the Málaga left-back, Ignacio "Nacho" Monreal.
(10) This brief foray into the Sixes is a new departure for Cavendish, who was a regular on the circuit as an amateur; until Ghent he had never raced a Six-Day as a professional.
(11) 6.54pm BST Neymar has company as he goes on a foray into the Chilean half.
(12) Those long enough in the tooth will remember that the Standard's former owner, Associated Newspapers , made a financially disastrous foray into TV back in the mid-1990s with the launch and closure of Channel One, a cable station it then futuristically billed as its "electronic newspaper" for the capital.
(13) Cleland has worked for the Bank of England for nearly 20 years having studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford and after a brief, abortive foray into accountancy.
(14) Sunderland boost survival hopes with late win over Manchester United Read more Two minutes later the Bournemouth winger Ritchie, having seen Imbula and Afellay’s forays into goal of the month territory, filed his very own contender.
(15) This was Clinton’s first direct foray into politics since she stood down as secretary of state, and her first visit to Iowa since the state’s Democrats delivered a devastating political blow to her campaign nearly seven years ago.
(16) The proposal, which has echoes of a policy recently espoused by Labour, was contained in an address that marked one of Justin Welby's most significant forays into public policy since be was enthroned last month as the new leader of the Church of England.
(17) ITV has made forays into building its production capability under Crozier – earlier this year deals were struck to buy Norwegian firm Mediacircus and a £17m agreement was reached to buy Graham Norton's So Television – however it is growth in the massive US market that is considered critical.
(18) And the groundbreaking forays into popular culture - his examinations of the British seaside postcard and boys' comics - and the revered polemical essays appeared in periodicals such as Horizon and Polemic.
(19) •As a tireless worker for community relations, Akbar Dad Khan felt well qualified to take issue with Nick Clegg's foray into the minefield of immigration.
(20) One of our first forays, I Live with Models , is produced by The Office’s Ash Atalla.
Warfare
Definition:
(n.) Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war.
(n.) Contest; struggle.
(v. i.) To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
Example Sentences:
(1) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
(2) The home secretary was today pressed to explain how cyber warfare could be seen as being on an equal footing to the threat from international terrorism.
(3) There was effectively a state of open warfare between Mourinho and the club captain Iker Casillas.
(4) Aware that her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, a former labour correspondent for the Guardian who understood the range of attitudes within trade unions, had tried to soften the impression that she saw Kinnock as another General Galtieri [Argentina’s president during the Falklands war], the draft text tried to distinguish between unions, rival parties and what the final text (the one she actually delivered) called “an organised revolutionary minority” with their “outmoded Marxist dogma about class warfare”.
(5) Can Advanced Warfare shake up the series in narrative terms?
(6) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
(7) Convicted of waging aggressive war and breaking laws of war at Nuremberg, but not of war crimes (or for unrestricted submarine warfare, after US Fleet-Admiral Nimitz admitted he used the same tactics).
(8) Official military doctrine in many countries is that these laws apply to cyberspace as they do to all other domains of warfare.
(9) I only think it’s inevitable if people who support marriage between a man and a woman don’t speak up.” Labor’s Penny Wong said the “open warfare” inside the Liberal party had the potential to “damage the cause of equality that so many Australians care about”.
(10) The need for psychiatrists in the military was recognized for the first time during World War I, which involved millions of men in unusually protracted warfare.
(11) "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning," the world's third richest man once warned fellow Americans.
(12) A soil sample originating from an area of suspected chemical warfare activity was subjected to chemical analysis and bioassay.
(13) One of the two women suspected of involvement in the poisoning vomited in police custody and was also suffering the effects of VX, which is only usually used in chemical warfare, the inspector general, Khalid Abu Bakar, said.
(14) In the context of what he called the "normalisation of war", Bacevich argued that unchallenged, expanding American military superiority encouraged the use of force, accustomed "the collective mindset of the officer corps" to ideas of dominance, glorified warfare and the warrior and advanced the concept of "the moral superiority of the soldier" over the civilian.
(15) West Side Story had become the acceptable face of teenage gang warfare, so Kubrick stylised and choreographed the violence, setting it to music that ranges from Rossini overtures to 'Singin' in the Rain'.
(16) In Asia, China has deployed a potent mix of psychological and legal warfare to strengthen its claims to hegemony over the South China Sea.
(17) Withheld documents · Sale of arms to Saudi Arabia · Special maritime surveillance operations · An improved kiloton bomb · Production of chemical weapons · Chemical warfare policy · Operations Grape and Tiara · Medical aspects of interrogation · Special operations and how they affect deception · Atomic energy: information received from US under military agreement · Nuclear warheads in the far east · Project R1 · SAS regiment: Borneo operations
(18) In the 1991 Gulf War, Israel's infectious disease surveillance system was utilized to follow the progress of a measles epidemic and to look for evidence of a concealed biological warfare attack.
(19) "It's a form of asymmetric warfare," said William Becker, a lawyer and conservative advocate who represented the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Committee in its losing battle with the city council.
(20) In that case, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg apologized to Norwegian prime minister Erna Solberg after the company deleted a post by her in which she shared the picture in solidarity with Tom Egeland, a writer who had included the Nick Ut picture as one of seven photographs he said had “changed the history of warfare”.