He advanced claims which were not only an invasion of its independence by the civil power, but in themselves rested only upon the practice and the sentiments of the Church's two great enemies, the Jew and the Saracen.
During two centuries of Lombard invasion and of Byzantine oppression she had remained unbroken.
We learn, by the very words of these Popes, that even in the eighth century the radical opposition between Romans and Lombards continued still as in the time of the first invasion under Alboin.
What proportion of its once eleven provinces and 161 bishops belonged to it at the time of the Mohammedan invasion might be difficult to ascertain.
The city of Constantine was then the material rampart which stopped the impetuous current of Saracen invasionto the north.
War and Peace is a historical novel and is extremely interesting, not only in its description of the times of the greatinvasion eighty years ago, but in its vivid pictures of life and character in Russia.
The tide of Moslem invasion and the counter-current of patriotism were temporarily swayed by the intermingling currents of sectarianism, ecclesiasticism and individual self-interest.
England is begirt with mailed foes; and if by one process she were to accumulate treasure and lose soldiers, she would but tempt invasion and emasculate defenders.
None of Brown's New England supporters approved of his invasion of Virginia, and Mr. Sanborn especially argued the matter with him and endeavored to dissuade him from it.
Mr. Sanborn is much better known for his connection with the Harper's Ferry invasion than for his Concord school, or later service on the board of State Charities.
The French foreign minister, Choiseul, had hatched a crafty plan for theinvasion of England, but before it could be executed the British fleet had to be cleared out of the way.
It baffled Napoleon in the same fashion when he thought out an invasion plan in the next century.
For various reasons the projected invasion of England was abandoned, and the expedition to Egypt was substituted.
Our imagination is not less astonished by the portrait of a Mogul, who, in his camp before Smyrna, meditates, and almost accomplishes, the invasion of the Chinese empire.
A rash and inhuman deed provoked and justified the Tartar arms in the invasionof the southern Asia.
The invasion of the Moguls he encountered with feeble arms and haughty embassies.
In the invasion of Italy by Attila, I have mentioned [35] the flight of the Venetians from the fallen cities of the continent, and their obscure shelter in the chain of islands that line the extremity of the Adriatic Gulf.
A just retaliation might be urged for the invasion of Turkestan, or the Eastern Tartary.
The long reign of Andronicus [1] the elder is chiefly memorable by the disputes of the Greek church, the invasion of the Catalans, and the rise of the Ottoman power.
Such was the influence in Europe of the invasion of the Moguls.
In relating the invasion of a great empire, it may seem strange that I have not described the obstacles which should have checked the progress of the strangers.
The date of the Mogul invasion is marked in the soft and charitable language of John Vataces.
John Gull's money to the Russians, as a compensation for the losses which they had suffered by the invasion of the French!
The plan of the invasion of Cape Breton was laid at Boston, and New England[428] bore the expense of it.
On the first of May, 1690, these deputies assembled, and promptly determined to set an expedition on foot for the invasion of Canada.
By these means he affirmed that the English colonies would be restricted within the narrow tract lying eastward from the Allegany Mountains, and in time laid open to invasion and ruin.
The Comte de Frontenac had failed in his attempts to negotiate with the savages; and on the arrival of his successor, an invasion of the colony was hourly expected.
Their memories, together with their recollection of what had been told them by their parents, carry back, on the average, to the period of the American invasion or just before it.
The volume of invasion increased slowly over the next three decades, but the effect was intensified by the escape of numerous mission neophytes into the valley.
A regular programme prescribes what he shall believe and say and do; and any departure from this order is considered a violation of the laws, or at least a reprehensible invasion of the time-honored customs of the city.
The evidence seems to suggest than an invasion of relatively cultured people from the East overthrew, and in time supplanted, the Neolithic civilization of the Nile Valley.
It is impossible to date this invasion accurately, but it cannot well have been later than the year 5000 B.
The Gothic invasion under the reign of Valens is the first that establishes a Teutonic nation within the frontier of the empire; but they only thereby bring themselves more directly under its spiritual power.
National character varies as it fades under invasion or in corruption; but if ever it glows again into a new life, that life must be tempered by the earth and sky of the country itself.
But this invasion of the so-called Salian Franks, never retreats again.
Of course, in saying that the invader cannot be the possessor of any country, I speak only of invasion such as that by the Vandals of Libya, or by ourselves of India; where the conquering race does not become permanently inhabitant.
Such an invasion had not been known in the land of Persia for many years.
After Saladin's death his empire gradually crumbled to pieces, and under Ghenghis Khan an invasion took place of hordes of Mongols and Tartars, of whom the Ghuz had been merely the precursors.
His invasion of Florida has paled the cheek of the Spanish Minister at Washington and given European diplomacy a chill; he knows nothing of that, however, and would care even less if he did.
That tremendousinvasion which, with "Beauty and Booty!
All my ancestors have been Invasion Chiefs, back to the beginning of time.
After he planted the Displacer, he would go off by himself for a while and do it just a little more--somewhere where Ilg and Ger would not see him--before the Grom Army arrived and the invasion began.
Pid," theInvasion Chief had said at their last interview, "we need this planet desperately.
The Invasion Chief had warned him; but still, he had to do something about it.
Stuart, together with many valuable papers and orders relating to the contemplated invasion of the North.
It seems that during the Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania, the New York militia regiments had been called off for duty in Washington, Baltimore, and other places.
At length the hearty cheers of our comrades rang out, and we knew that the Confederate tide of invasion had been safely rolled back.
Buckeye, which was popularly supposed to sleep with one eye on the river, and always first repaired there in the morning to wash and work, was only awake to the knowledge of the invasion at noon.
This unexpected invasion had pleased and flattered Blake; it spoke an influence used on his behalf that he dared not have claimed--dared not have expected.
The anger smouldering in his heart since the girl's invasion flamed to speech.
Disliked when he lived in Jersey before the invasion years ago, that seemed forgotten now; for word had gone abroad that he was a patriot raised from the dead, an honour to his country.
They had not seen each other since the year before Rullecour's invasion of Jersey.
While plans were being laid by the French for the invasion of New York the Iroquois invaded Canada, and the massacre of Lachine faced Frontenac on his return in 1689.
Sheltered on the land side by Three Rivers, Montreal, and the military outposts of the Richelieu, the town was practically safe from the Iroquois, while civil wars and Stuart Kings in England prevented invasion from the sea.
Virginia and Pennsylvania were still half-hearted, and inclined to think that the danger {237} of French invasion was a scare created in the interests of the Ohio Company.
Her invasion of East Prussia had done much to relieve the strain in the West, and heavily she paid for her quixotry.
On the 17th I received a letter from Kitchener from which I gleaned that the Cabinet were much perturbed by rumours of a contemplated invasion by the enemy, which apparently emanated from the Admiralty.
The question of munitions and the fear of invasion formed the basis of our long conversation at Walmer.
Many different views have been put forward regarding the initial foundation upon which the Germans built up their strategic scheme for the invasion of France.
Their prompt invasion of Eastern Prussia did much to make the victory of the Marne possible.
Over all towered the monument to the greatest world-soldier--the warrior Emperor who, more than a hundred years before, had from that spot contemplated the invasionof England.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "invasion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
