• White House aides privately hoped the new NATO assessment would call for so many troops to invade--perhaps up to 150, 000 in Kosovo alone--that it would scare off ground-war advocates.

    CNN: IT'S FLIGHT OR FIGHT

  • It can sometimes lead to pneumonia as bacteria invade flu-damaged lung tissue.

    FORBES: Influenza Wants You

  • Pirates in need of a pampering can invade the on-site Hollis Cosmetics and Day Spa for facials and massages, or to wax their Blackbeards.

    BBC: Daily deal: Bahamas island fun

  • "I never, never expected the Argentines to invade the Falklands head-on, " she told the committee.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Did he not invade Iraq on trumped-up charges, bend America's laws and values to permit the torture of prisoners, and leave his successor the worst economic crisis since the 1930s?

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • Then there was the refusal of the prime minister of the time, Tony Blair, to state whether his son Leo had received the triple vaccine - on the grounds that this would invade their child's right to privacy - which added to the controversy.

    BBC: MMR: How parents feel now about avoiding jabs

  • But then that's the natural reaction in any old-line industry when aggressive leveraged-buyout artists invade.

    FORBES: Cowboy capitalism

  • Committee chairwoman Sue Watts said if spectators continued to invade the field at half-time then they would have to look at the capacity of the ground.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | South West Wales | Crowd cut threat over pitch ban

  • They fought off an attempt to open a betting shop at South Horizons, for fear that working-class gamblers would invade.

    ECONOMIST: Hong Kong

  • Pulte's Del Webb unit, for example, has built 41 of these boomer complexes--in the suburbs of Boston, New York and Chicago, among other places--and now plans to invade metro Atlanta and Minneapolis.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • This tasty narrative premise is quickly abandoned for two and a half hours of disconnected drivel when the enemy Decepticons invade Chicago, and the Autobots, well-intentioned metal dunderheads who reside on Earth to protect humankind, save the day with help from Sam (LaBeouf).

    NEWYORKER: Fired

  • Despite all the disputes over the islands, historians are agreed that the fateful decision to invade in 1982 made by Argentina's then-leader General Leopoldo Galtieri was an attempt to gain popular support for a military dictatorship that, by the early 1980s, was morally and economically bankrupt.

    BBC: How Argentines feel about the Falkland Islands dispute

  • But then that's the natural reaction in any old-line industry when aggressive leveraged buyout artists invade.

    FORBES: Cowboy Capitalism

  • After months of hearings on the matter and voluminous legal submissions, the High Court of Delhi issued a 147-page opinion finding that Forbes did not invade Ms. Jain's privacy.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Possibly 2K softened us up by first mooting a first-person shooter based on the X-Com narrative (in short, aliens invade Earth, and are opposed by a shadowy transnational agency).

    FORBES: Fly-Past Friday: New X-COM: Enemy Unknown Video

  • It's understandable if the prospect creeps you out -- it should -- but the end goal isn't to invade a user's privacy (though the data mined would be significant), it's to anticipate and assist.

    ENGADGET

  • In a sense, Giordano is racing the clock: Can it successfully reposition itself before the 900-pound gorilla of affordable fashion retailing, Gap, decides to invade Asia?

    CNN: An All-New Dress For Success

  • The cause of pre-eclampsia is unknown, but it is clear that the placenta fails to invade into the wall of the mother's uterus.

    BBC: Treatment for pregnancy danger

  • But as computers invade the car industry, bringing new opportunities, benefits and problems, they will no doubt bring the gee-whizz claims of the computer industry along too.

    ECONOMIST: When crashing is not an option

  • This month a mob of 250 youngsters, many of them sporting baggy clothes, multicolored hairdos and multiple piercings, will invade the refined Aspen Mountain resort to appear at the Winter X Games, part of ESPN's twice-yearly "extreme sports" lollapalooza.

    FORBES: X-treme Economics

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