What's the difference between incursion and penetration?

Incursion


Definition:

  • (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.

Penetration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.
  • (n.) Acuteness; insight; sharp discoverment; sagacity; as, a person of singular penetration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The penetration of (22)Na was not prevented by the presence of metabolic inhibitors or by 500 mm NaCl in the suspending medium.
  • (2) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
  • (3) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
  • (4) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
  • (5) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
  • (6) Thus, although ferric-enterochelin cannot penetrate the cell surface from outside, the complex that is formed within the envelope is transported normally into the cell.
  • (7) Major limitations of the conventional sperm penetration assay are the inability to assess several aspects of sperm function (zona binding and penetration) and the absence of human ovulatory products known to influence fertilization.
  • (8) The cercaria, microcercous in type, is liberated and actively penetrates a second terrestrial pulmonate where development to the free metacercarial stage takes place in the pericardial cavity.
  • (9) The incomplete penetrance of the neoplastic phenotype and the monoclonality of lymphoid tumors suggest that tumor formation in v-fps mice requires genetic or epigenetic events in addition to expression of the P130gag-fps protein-tyrosine kinase.
  • (10) All of these factors make morbidity and mortality associated with penetrating injuries low.
  • (11) The treatment led to decreased spinnbarkeit, arborization and sperum penetration in the cervical mucus.
  • (12) The penetration coefficient, determined by the surface tension, contact angle and viscosity, is a measure of the ability of a liquid to penetrate into a capillary space, such as interproximal regions, gingival pockets and pores.
  • (13) The rational surgical methods of treatment in 85 patients with suppurative hepatic echinococcosis penetrating into the abdomen cavity are presented.
  • (14) This apparent lack of centrosomal staining was not due to problems associated with penetration of the antibody probes, since staining adjacent to and within the centriolar cylinder was observed when phosphoprotein antigens recognized by the MPM-2 antibody were localized.
  • (15) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
  • (16) Cefuzoname seems to be among the middle ranks of beta-lactam agents as far as penetration rate is concerned; however, when its potent antibacterial activity and broad spectrum are taken into account, the concentrations in CSF in patients with meningitis seem worth examining.
  • (17) The time of sperm penetration in the mouse eggs, however, was delayed for one-half to one hour when ejaculated sperm were used.
  • (18) Enzymatic lability does not, however, play as important a role as lipophilicity in the corneal and conjunctival penetration of cycloalkyl and aryl ester prodrugs.
  • (19) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
  • (20) Kinetic studies showed that significant inhibition of virus production occurred when the inhibitor was added to infected cultures up to 5 h after virus penetration.