Sentence examples for conducting occupation from inspiring English sources
When Germany unconditionally surrendered on 7 May 1945, the division was conducting occupation duties in northern Germany, which it continued to do until it was relieved by British troops on 14 June.
The frontline soldiers of occupation will spend election day chilling out, or conducting business as usual, at the other end of a gun.
It also provoked a campaign that saw protestors conducting an occupation of the partly-demolished caff.
It says the US refused a UK request to sign a memorandum of understanding to establish how to jointly conduct the occupation, since the US had little incentive to give the UK an influential role – it had supplied the overwhelming majority of the manpower and resources.
Over the next three decades, the Marines conducted long occupations of the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Nicaragua while fulfilling Roosevelt's charge to restore "the ties of civilized society".
It conducted a brutal occupation that killed an estimated one million Filipinos.
Two of the Ravensbrück doctors, Herta Oberheuser and her boss Karl Gebhardt, were among those convicted in the well publicised Nuremberg Doctors' trial of 1946, and the records of the trials, conducted by British occupation authorities, of another 21 women and 17 men for war crimes committed at Ravensbrück, have been open for decades.
Conducted a longer occupation.
This flexibility, combined with an aggressive temperament, makes them one of the world's best-known and most-hated invasive species.Yet, as any general knows, establishing a beachhead is not the same thing as conducting a successful, long-term occupation.
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Obama's defense budget wisely continues the conventional dominance of the U.S. Army and Marines while making the active forces too small to conduct protracted foreign occupations and counterinsurgency wars.
