Sentence examples for Short occupation from inspiring English sources

It then remained Turkish, except for a short occupation by forces of the Ottoman governor of Egypt, Muḥammad ʿAlī Pasha, in the late 1830s.

But in 1517 the Ottoman Empire defeated the Mamlūks and established control over Egypt that lasted until 1798, when Napoleon I led a French army in a short occupation of the country.

Songo Mnara is particularly well-suited to a study of Swahili public space because of its short occupation and clear town plan understood through standing architecture; it is likely the best example of how the southern Swahili understood a planned town should be organized in the fifteenth century AD.

She's powerful enough to warrant me writing this Dispatch to bid her farewell, and to try and unpack the phenomenon I've just witnessed, critical as it is to any complete history of Tony Abbott, and his short occupation of the prime ministership.

The day before, a short occupation took place at Oxford Circus station forcing British transport police to temporarily close it.

Short of occupation, the world cannot eliminate Iran's capacity to gain the bomb.

Better to imitate the short United States occupation of Japan, where people benefited from land reform, more open education, workplace rights, government-led economic development and political democracy.

The stakes this time are real, not fabricated; the insurgency is genuine and indigenous; we have options far short of occupation.

After a short Russian occupation, it became (1815) part of the British protectorate of the Ionian Islands; it prospered with the revival of Greek culture.

Fears that the child was at risk led the protesters to cut short their occupation, but the air ambulance company director later denied the protesters were to blame; he said the flight was delayed solely by operational problems.

The short story Occupation: Warrior, published in 1959, provides the backstory of the Monitor Corps Commander Dermodd, who appears in some of the books.