Sentence examples for any occupying from inspiring English sources

There is no direct reference to Iraq, but the film stresses how difficult it is for any occupying force to outlast guerrilla warfare and acts of terror.

Any occupying army here will haemorrage money and blood to little gain, and in the end most throw in the towel, as the British did in 1842, as the Russians did in 1988 and as Nato will do later this year.

The resolution reiterated four previous U.N. Security Council resolutions underscoring the illegality, under the Fourth Geneva Convention, of any occupying power settling civilians into territories seized by military force.

"Iraqis won't cede their independence and nationalism to any occupying power," said Judith Kipper, a specialist in Middle East affairs with the Council on Foreign Relations.

Though Libya lacks the mountainous terrain conducive to insurgencies, the urban warfare seen in Zawiya is indicative of the grave cost that would be imposed on any occupying force.

I kept wondering how any occupying power, including the Coalition Provisional Authority, intended to keep a country stable with no effective control of borders, with not even any plan, explicit or implicit, to do so.

Queuing systems in which an arriving customer finds the server busy and waiting positions (if any) occupied leaves the service area but repeats his demand after some random time are called retrial queues.

Today, DJs such as Tiesto, David Guetta, Deadmau5 and Armin Van Buuren play stages and stadiums as big as any occupied by Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire or Britney Spears.

We do not know which endophyte species, if any, occupy the niche space previous occupied by the wound-infecting Fusarium species, but it seems likely that a different suite of host-entry mechanisms is required for colonization in herbivore-resistant maize.

The Soviets, of course, did not see themselves as an occupying army any more than we do.

The words "any areas occupied by the United States" are substituted for the words "occupied areas wherever located".