Sentence examples for a long occupation from inspiring English sources

That there's a long occupation about to follow is, as you would expect, prefigured here.

Because Madrid was loyal to the Spanish Republic, it lived through the postwar period as a long occupation.

If the upstairs represents the end of an empire, the basement is where the detritus of a long occupation was dumped.

He may want Russia to lead a new Eurasian Union, but he doesn't dream of world conquest; Russia has plenty of nuclear weapons, but its conventional military forces are ill prepared for a long occupation of Ukraine.

Finally, some northern Athabaskan languages that are located adjacent to one another are linguistically very different; the deep differentiation of neighbouring languages suggests a long occupation of a territory.

In the end Arnold lost, mainly because London did not want to pay the costs, either in soldiers or in money, of a long occupation of what was proving to be an unruly new country.

9.40am: An email reminds me that Manchester University has also seen a week-and-a-half long occupation of a lecture theatre.

Protests against the marketisation of higher education have also been held in London, Falmouth and Birmingham, while an eight-week long occupation ended in the arrest of four students at Sussex University.

Members of a women's group in east London are staging a week-long occupation of an almost empty housing estate next to the Olympic Park.

But his remark, that the military had a "once in a lifetime" opportunity to strike at Hamas, was accompanied by a warning that such an escalation could mean a year-long occupation of Gaza.

During the time of the American Revolution, New York suffered from a long British occupation and two fires that destroyed one-third of its buildings.