When they made brief incursions, lasting one or two days, of about twelve men into Muslim-controlled territory.

This action worsened relations with the Chinese, who launched a brief incursion into northern Vietnam in 1979.

A brief marine incursion marks the early Oligocene in Europe.

Although a brief incursion into the city succeeded only in burning the main temple, the surrounding hinterland was devastated.

In a brief incursion into Sulaimaniya, they captured and executed opposition officials with chilling precision.

A brief incursion into the town of Corinth was repulsed.

His remarks came just hours after the latest salvos prompted a brief Israeli incursion in the area.

Until today, fighting around Basra had been restricted to the city's outskirts or brief incursions several miles inside.

Not much interested in politics, and no doubt disgusted by his brief incursions into public life, Yeats nevertheless makes political pronouncements.

At other times a quick, brief incursion into the branches above delayed it momentarily in its steady journey toward the east.