It's really our first foray into this.

Was the Chinese incursion intended to serve as a sort of diplomatic accelerator?

Japan withdrew from the League of Nations after being condemned for its incursion into Manchuria.

One junior European officer described a raid to punish a village that had protested.

Opera also began to be popular in London, and there was significant literary resistance to this Italian incursion.

India s parliament, not surprisingly, denounced the Chinese incursion in the harshest possible terms.

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

But, in this case, the book is an obscure and rare incursion of Lobato into adult science fiction.

These books were Lissitzky's first major foray in book design, a field that he would greatly innovate during his career.

China s leaders have yet to explain what prompted the incursion but there is no shortage of speculation.

Odysseus' account of his adventures After a piratical raid on Ismaros in the land of the Cicones, he and his twelve ships were driven off course by storms.

As well as recording piano rolls, Gershwin made a brief foray into vaudeville, accompanying both Nora Bayes and Louise Dresser on the piano.

On 10 April, he led a cattle raid on Banias, but was surprised by Saladin's nephew Farrukh Shah.

On 6 March, Tirpitz , escorted by three destroyers, launched a raid on the British convoys to the Soviet Union.

So, was China s incursion into Indian territory an error by a local PLA commander?

On November 1st, Costa Rican newspaper La Nación reported Government confirms incursion of Nicaraguan Army into national territory,

Louis XVIII was not particularly worried by Bonaparte's excursion, as such small numbers of troops could be easily overcome.

The next day, Iraq launched a ground invasion of Iran along a front measuring in three simultaneous attacks.

And Russian President Vladimir Putin s incursion into Ukraine, in the EU s backyard, has turned the common European foreign and security policy into a punch line.

Indeed, almost simultaneously with the PLA incursion, scholars at an official Chinese think tank questioned Japanese sovereignty over Okinawa.

Metzengerstein , the first story that Poe is known to have published, and his first foray into horror, was originally intended as a burlesque satirizing the popular genre.

In 447 BC Pericles engaged in his most admired excursion, the expulsion of barbarians from the Thracian peninsula of Gallipoli, in order to establish Athenian colonists in the region.

Kim visited China in April of that year, and met with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai to ask for military aid.

Israel conducted the recent showdown with Hamas in a regional context that has changed dramatically since its last incursion into Gaza, Operation Cast Lead in 2008.

Inspired by the classic children's literature, The Steadfast Tin Soldier , by Hans Christian Andersen, the musical is the third foray into playwriting by Luana Piovani child.

Bismarck conducted only one operation, Operation Rheinübung, a sortie into the North Atlantic to raid supply convoys sent from North America to Great Britain.

Number one this incursion into your land these past 20 years, and before, the reason anyone is interested in your land, and particularly the United States, it's oil.

The aggressive foreign policy of the Lords Appellant failed when their efforts to build a wide, anti French coalition came to nothing, and the north of England fell victim to a Scottish incursion.

After all, one of the lessons of the 1962 war was that a vacillating response to Chinese aggression is self defeating, particularly in situations like that posed by the incursion at Daulat Beg Oldie.

On July 13th, Le Nouveau Courrier published an investigative report on the coffee and cocoa export trade in Côte d'Ivoire, which provoked a police raid in the newspaper offices.

Field meetings to find interesting species of fungi are known as 'forays', after the first such meeting organized by the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club in 1868 and entitled A foray among the funguses sic .

Richard Dawkins urges all atheists to openly state their position and to fight the incursion of the church into politics and science. A fiery, funny, powerful talk.

There are reports that president Aziz and a security detail of the presidential guard were spotted in the vicinity while the attacks were in progress, indicating that he was personally supervising the raid.

Probably the most devastating strike occurred on the evening of 29 December, when German aircraft attacked the City of London itself with incendiary and high explosive bombs, causing a firestorm that has been called the Second Great Fire of London.

Among these was a raid taking place in Kent, an allied country in South East England, during the year 885, which was quite possibly the largest raid since the battles with Guthrum.

The Skin I Live In (2011) Identity, creativity and survival, frequent themes in Almodóvar's films, were given another twist in The Skin I Live In , the director's first incursion into the physiological horror genre.

It was Salles's first foray as director of a film in a language other than his native Portuguese (Spanish, in this case) and quickly became a box office hit in Latin America and Europe.

Earhart subsequently made her first attempt at competitive air racing in 1929 during the first Santa Monica to Cleveland Women's Air Derby (later nicknamed the Powder Puff Derby by Will Rogers).

Armored Cataphracts began to be deployed in eastern Europe and the near East, following the precedents established by Persian forces, as the main striking force of the armies in contrast to the earlier roles of cavalry as scouts, raiders, and outflankers.

The incursion has even been linked to the scandal surrounding Chongqing s disgraced former Communist Party chief, Bo Xilai, who had close ties with high ranking PLA and security services officers.

On 8 July 1912, forces loyal to the former monarchy, under the command of Henrique Paiva Couceiro, confronted government forces, commanded by Colonel Ribeiro de Carvalho, during the second monarchist incursion.

In response to this incursion, Alfred led an Anglo Saxon force against the Danes who, instead of engaging the army of Wessex, fled to their beached ships and sailed to another part of Britain.

The combined Danish and English forces defeated the Norman garrison at York, seized the castles and took control of Northumbria, although a raid into Lincolnshire led by Edgar was defeated by the Norman garrison of Lincoln.

According to Russian Primary Chronicle, Smolensk (probably located slightly downstream, at the archaeological site of Gnezdovo) was located on the area settled by the West Slavic Radimichs tribe in 882 when Oleg of Novgorod took it in passing from Novgorod to Kiev.

We are missing my mother's story, who made sure with every siren, with every raid, with every cut off of electricity, she played puppet shows for my brothers and I, so we would not be scared of the sounds of explosions.