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  • noun Plural form of invasion.

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Examples

  • That highlights the one unquestionable good of those twin invasions -- the possible self-rule of Afghanistan and Iraq after suffering years of horrible dictatorships.

    08/16/2004 2004

  • They owned estates in Central Russia, in those fertile steppes in which the ancient Muscovite czars had settled colonists from all over the country for their protection against Tartar invasions from the South.

    Ivan Bunin - Autobiography 1933

  • Many of them live in "invasions" - slums constructed on public lands on the outskirts of Medellin, Cartagena, and elsewhere.

    Chiquita's hundred year history in Colombia Abhay N 2007

  • Many of them live in "invasions" - slums constructed on public lands on the outskirts of Medellin, Cartagena, and elsewhere.

    unknown title 2009

  • Many of them live in "invasions" - slums constructed on public lands on the outskirts of Medellin, Cartagena, and elsewhere.

    unknown title 2009

  • Many of them live in "invasions" - slums constructed on public lands on the outskirts of Medellin, Cartagena, and elsewhere.

    unknown title 2009

  • Many of them live in "invasions" - slums constructed on public lands on the outskirts of Medellin, Cartagena, and elsewhere.

    unknown title 2009

  • Preventing Kuwait-style invasions is fairly easy for the U.S. with our air supremacy, and we don’t have much trouble finding an adequate number of countries in the region to host our airplanes.

    Matthew Yglesias » Does The Middle East Matter? 2007

  • It takes a cultivated ignorance to call the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

    For Some, the Dark Ages Never Ended. 2009

  • They began a terrible xenophobic campaign against non-arian citizens (jewish people were not the only victims, just the most privileged and wealthy of them) but the reasons were truly economical (nationalism and patriotism have always been the tools to drive ignorant people to war) and the invasions were the way they thought they could win markets.

    Think Progress » The task of winning hearts and minds 2006

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