(n.) A running into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid.
(n.) Attack; occurrence.
Example Sentences:
(1) The killings set the stage for the departure of former president Viktor Yanukovych, the installation of the new government, the Russian incursion in Crimea and Ukraine's current crisis.
(2) Strange in that Chomsky's interview was given to the state-owned news agency at about the same time as another arm of the Russian state despatched two Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers for a cheeky incursion into the Nato-protected zone off Scotland's north coast .
(3) Many of the metabolic incursions resulting from stress and oxidative damage are detrimental to disease resistance.
(4) The report says incursions were becoming more regular: “In anticipation of the entry of Australian warships (foreign war vessels) into Indonesian territorial waters, already occurring more and more often, it is necessary to increase Indonesian sovereignty in carrying out more patrols in and around the waters of Rote Ndao and Dana Island, so that foreign warships do not enter Indonesian territorial waters again,” it says.
(5) He defined the military takeover of Crimea as a "humanitarian mission" to save all Ukrainians from mortal peril, although no such danger had been apparent to the great majority of Crimea residents at the time of the incursion.
(6) TEM investigation of round-cell infiltration, observed in both group, revealed incursions of hydroxyapatite and bismuth in the macrophages.
(7) The Russian embassy in Ankara said the country’s envoy was summoned twice on Saturday and Monday to address the incursions, according to the Russian Tass news agency.
(8) With this in mind, three broad scenarios suggest themselves: The most benign outcome is that Putin envisages a Georgia-style incursion, a brief week of creating new facts on the ground, limiting the campaign to taking control of the Crimean peninsula with its majority ethnic Russian population, and then negotiating and dictating terms from a position of strength to the weak and inexperienced new leadership in Kiev.
(9) Al-Shabaab rebels, who are fighting the weak Somali government and the African Union force that supports it, have said they would retaliate for Kenya's military incursion.
(10) The rapid scaling up of the party has led Professor John Curtice, a leading political scientist, to claim that Ukip presents the "most serious fourth party incursion" into English electoral politics since the second world war.
(11) 9.08am BST Reuters has more on the pro-Russian incursion in Slaviansk Six armoured personnel carriers entered the eastern Ukrainian town of Slaviansk, on Wednesday with the lead vehicle bearing the Russian flag, a Reuters eyewitness said.
(12) But in the case of Chilapa, locals believe that the masked men were simply members of a rival gang, Los Ardillos, who launched a daylight incursion into Rojos territory – while local and federal authorities watched from the sidelines.
(13) Ankara stressed the incident had followed a string of Russian incursions in recent weeks.
(14) 9.20pm BST US defense secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday that NATO should reconsider its relationship with Russia in light of its incursion into Ukraine, which should bury the idea that the end of the Cold War brought permanent peace to Europe, the Associated Press reports: "Russia's actions in Ukraine shatter that myth and usher in bracing new realities," Hagel said in a speech that captured the Obama administration's deepening concern that decades of effort to draw Russia closer to the West may be failing.
(15) The Crimes (Foreign Incursions and Recruitment) Act makes it illegal for an Australian citizen to enter a foreign state and engage in a hostile activity, or to intend to engage in a hostile activity.
(16) As Khalid al-Mubarak, a Sudanese diplomat, noted in Sudan Vision, the African Union, the EU, the US, the UN and Russia are all of the view that, whatever the rights and wrongs of other border disputes, the Heglig incursion was unjustified and illegal under international law.
(17) Islamic State’s incursions in Iraq and Syria have left large areas of both countries under the militant group’s control.
(18) There are reports of almost daily Chinese incursions, including the unprecedented Pacific deployment of an aircraft carrier from China , the Liaoning.
(19) He has been visiting since 1998, but his properties are let as guesthouses most of the time, offering a model of small-scale tourism he hopes will ward off the incursions of modernity.
(20) "By secretly embedding weaknesses into encryption systems in order to create a 'back door' for surveillance access, the NSA creates a road map for similar cyber-incursions by others with less noble intentions," Black said in a statement.
Inroad
Definition:
(n.) The entrance of an enemy into a country with purposes of hostility; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion; raid; encroachment.
(v. t.) To make an inroad into; to invade.
Example Sentences:
(1) That unit, he said, had made some inroads in tackling extremism in prisons.
(2) In spite of inroads made by CT, ultra-sonography, radionuclide scans, and other modalities, there is still diagnostic information that is best supplied by the IVU.
(3) This side will kill them, that side will kill them.” However, with the launch of their annual spring offensive, the Taliban has made recent inroads in several Afghan provinces.
(4) Responding to news of the Delta deal, which began to circulate on Thursday , Harry Breach, an analyst at Westhouse Securities, said the deal could help Rolls-Royce and Airbus make inroads into the American market.
(5) The poll also shows that while the public is increasingly fearful of deteriorating economic conditions, Labour is making only limited inroads as a result.
(6) We've made inroads into tackling it, but the key now is keeping up momentum.
(7) The devices I'd seen were already becoming popular in Asia, and now they're making serious inroads in other parts of the world, including America.
(8) The formal investigation could recommend that individual big six members separate their units that generate power from those units that sell it to households to try to make inroads into their 95% market share.
(9) 5.40pm BST 40 min : Uruguay have the ball but, faced with diligent and numerous Italians, they can't make any inroads.
(10) As an example, it is an accepted fact that dentistry more than any other profession has made serious inroads into putting itself out of business through research.
(11) Ermir Lanjani, making inroads with his persistence on the left, saw a shot deflect off Patrice Evra.
(12) Therefore, while significant inroads have been made in understanding the initial events, we still do not fully understand all the processes involved in the proliferation of arterial intimal lesions.
(13) Real now have half the time to do the job they were make any inroads into in the first period.
(14) He added: “What we are saying is that there is a series of steps that we can take, some quite quickly, that over a couple of years should make real inroads into the numbers of preventable deaths.” A government spokesman said: “It is vital that all services – NHS , prisons and the police – are honest and open when things go wrong and work with families and staff to prevent further tragedies.
(15) The results indicated that alteplase has made dramatic inroads, being used exclusively in 14.6% of the hospitals; in 64% of the hospitals both alteplase and streptokinase were on the formulary.
(16) As China makes economic and developmental inroads into Africa it may only be a matter of time before Mauritania's largely untapped resources come into focus.
(17) The volume levels among the crowd at the bottom of the 3.5km run at Rosa Khutor then rose appreciably as Miller made inroads on Mayer's time at the top of the course.
(18) They are looking for equality, they want respect from the world’s space community.” To that end, China’s biggest inroad has been made with the ESA through the space science programme.
(19) No school or teacher can be expected to pick up something like preventing violence against women and their children and make inroads in entrenched societal issues like gender inequality – the key driver of violence against women.
(20) Meanwhile they have seen their rivals make serious inroads on the summer transfer market.