Sentence examples for act of occupation from inspiring English sources

The pope's appeal was based on a longstanding view of the Roman Catholic Church that the Israeli conquest of East Jerusalem and its annexation to Israel was an act of occupation.

Built form can suggest territory, but it is the act of occupation that defines the extent of a territorial claim.

The built environment is observed as territorial organization, as spaces under control, thus territory is defined by acts of occupation (Habraken 2000).

It is the act of switching occupations that leads to lost human capital investments, and so our estimate of the return to switching is conditional on that decision.

In different situations they may express a genuine aspiration to an inclusive participation or themselves act as forms of occupation and control of the urban spaces with exclusionary effects in relation to other actors or other practices.

It was only in response to the insurgents that we had to act like an army of occupation".

Much of the money has gone to Occupy efforts in other parts of the country, which sprouted after the movement's first act: the occupation of Zuccotti Park on Sept. 17.

The Palestinian lawyers' union refused to practice before Israeli military courts in an act of protest against the occupation.

So if there is an American invasion of Iraq in which only a few civilians perish and Iraqis treat American troops as liberating heroes, the attack is still certain to be portrayed on these anti-American Web sites and broadcasts as an act of aggression, arrogance and occupation.

"But this was also very much an act of protest against the occupation.

Cooley was living near the Homosassa River, where the Armed Occupation Act of 1842 allowed the distribution of 160 acre land grants.