6 sentences with 'incursions'
Example sentences and phrases with the word incursions and other words derived from it.
• « With a few violent exceptions, no major incursions were able to cross the Sinai, and consequently contact with Mesopotamian and Near Eastern cultures was limited. »
• « Egypt traded with the kingdom of Nubia, but also suffered from the incursions of the warring Nubian kingdoms... One of the key political posts in Egypt was the Guardian of the Southern Gate, a military governor who tried to protect trade from these attacks. »
• « In 513 BC Darius I led a gigantic invasion of Central Asia in an attempt to put an end to the Scythian incursions once and for all; he was forced to retreat without winning a decisive victory, but his army was still intact and he had added Thrace (modern Bulgaria) to the empire. »
• « Storm clouds had already gathered under Aurelius, who was forced to lead military campaigns against the incursions of Germanic tribes in the north despite his own lack of military background (or, indeed, temperament). »
• « For the rest of the Roman imperial period, Rome and Persia periodically engaged in incursions and large-scale warfare, with neither side able to defeat the other decisively. »
• « Various wild vegetables and even a tea made from pine leaves provide the necessary substances for the body to function properly in times of prolonged combat, escape from prison camps or incursions into enemy territory. »