5 sentences with 'intrusion'
Example sentences and phrases with the word intrusion and other words derived from it.
• « Catherine the Great also forced the Ottomans to agree to the construction of an Orthodox cathedral in Constantinople and the 'protection' of Orthodox Christians in Ottoman lands, a massive intrusion on Ottoman sovereignty over their own subjects. »
• « In short, the Ottoman Empire was beset by external pressures in the form of growing European military power and European intrusion into its economy. It also suffered from internal problems, notably the corruption of the janissaries and the intransigence of reactionaries such as Abdulhamit. »
• « This westward movement brought the settlers into conflict as never before with Indian tribes such as the Shawnee, Seneca-Cayuga, Wyandot and Delaware, who increasingly stood firm against any further intrusion by white settlers. »
• « In response, Mohawk leader Joseph Brant helped form the Western Confederacy, an alliance of native peoples pledged to resist American intrusion into what was then called the Northwest. »
• « Not all efforts to assert American control were peaceful; some Indians rejected the explorers' intrusion into their lands. An encounter with the Blackfeet turned hostile, for example, and members of the group killed two Blackfeet men. »