incursion

Preposition: of

• Scot: This was in compensation for their losses by the incursions of the Scots!

Preposition: into

• territory: For some readers the book will be a first incursion into a strange territory.

Converse of object

• resist: One supervisor said they were prepared to join with Kurds to resist a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq.
• prevent: UNISON has helped the Welsh assembly put a program in place to prevent the incursion of the two-tier workforce into Wales.
• launch: This week, Benin's top military officer accused Burkina Faso of launching an armed incursion into the Benin side of the area.
• stop: They bewail the fact that their own fisheries inspection service seems powerless to stop these incursions or arrest the offenders.
• make: During the evening groups of Loyalist rioters began to make incursions into the Catholic Short Strand enclave of east Belfast.

Adjective modifier

• barbarian: Continuity of tax responsibilities in areas not affected by barbarian incursions.
• cross-border: The FARC and the ELN often use the area for cross-border incursions and regard Venezuelan territory near the border as a safe haven.
• Turkish: One supervisor said they were prepared to join with Kurds to resist a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq.
• frequent: Of course the native population were also busy and frequent incursions and skirmishes took place along this boundary line.
• gray: The scheme will also be able to monitor the rate of gray incursion into red squirrel areas.

Noun used with modifier

• squirrel: The magnitude of threat to red squirrels is the threat from gray squirrel incursion.
• runway: The system used gives the maximum protection against possible runway incursions.
• Viking: The burhs were a series of defended towns designed by King Alfred to counter act the Viking incursions.
• border: Manuscript D then mentions a border incursion by " Griffin, the Welsh king " .
• ground: On Thursday, large numbers of American and British aircraft were destroying Iraqi air defenses as a prelude to ground incursions.