Sentence examples for accepted the occupation from inspiring English sources

One Englishman who worked in the Special Operations Executive, sending agents into France, put it well when he said later that most French people were objective collaborators, in the sense that they accepted the occupation, and also objective résistants, in that they wanted to be rid of it.

With the German invasion, however, rapidly accepted the occupation and became a major force in collaboration in Wallonia.

Sent to sue for peace the next year, he managed to reduce his city's indemnities but was forced to accept the occupation of Athens' port, Piraeus.

I explained to the general that the Iraqi people, who are aware of their esteemed historic status in this region, do not accept the occupation.

Bob Herbert has it exactly right when he writes that Iraqi insurgents, like those in Vietnam, "will never accept the occupation of their country by America" (column, Sept. 3).

But local occupation officials appear in some areas to have accepted the flow of Kurds back to their homes.

The American occupation of Japan ended in 1952, after Tokyo signed the San Francisco Peace Treaty and accepted the Tokyo trials' verdict.

The Shiites, though the majority of Iraq's population, suffered severe oppression under the Sunni-dominated government of Mr. Hussein, and have so far appeared more willing to accept the American military occupation.

Meanwhile, Napoleon I, through the agreements of Tilsit (July 7 and 9, 1807) and Erfurt (October 12, 1808), abandoned active opposition to Russia and accepted its occupation of the principalities.

But no one in the international community accepts the legitimacy of Israel's occupation, and it has no moral claim on those territories.

Not until Mr. Chirac took office did a French president have the courage to avow fully what France did under the Nazi occupation and accept the responsibility that the nation as a whole bore.