Examples of incursion

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The findings support the observation that languages in contact can sustain incursions and nevertheless remain robust and stable.
The desire to protect local authorities from incursions by housing associations is significant.
They were, rather, a response to the incursions of those who had invoked the question of access to national space.
Such incursions are routinely fitted to the utterance in a way that displays orientation to the developing syntax.
What kinds of action, then, can such incursions per form?
The miners were prepared to resort, if not to violence, then to acts of civil disobedience and incursions onto contested land.
He was alarmed by the incursions of biological determinism into such disciplines as sociology.
Of course, the remaining forest is thereby broken into fragments that continue to suffer incursions at their edges, as the cycle continues.
Perhaps officials are largely in control, with incursions from a wider society (in the all-fours cases) from time to time.
The concern seems less that of the predations of animals than an insistent and paranoid concern at the incursions of the poor.
At this stage, however, their association with marine incursions cannot be ruled out.
With the number of whitefly pest incursions increasing, identification guides to the whiteflies of specified geographical areas become especially important.
Narrative becomes the discourse of the secular world, but a discourse continually amenable to incursions from the doctrinal.
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