Sentence examples for costly occupation from inspiring English sources
The Soviet Union stayed in Afghanistan for a decade after its 1979 invasion, undeterred by events surrounding the Moscow Olympics, maintaining a stubborn, untenable and costly occupation.
BAGHDAD — The civil war in Syria is testing Iraq's fragile society and fledgling democracy, worsening sectarian tensions, pushing Iraq closer to Iran and highlighting security shortcomings just nine months after American forces ended their long and costly occupation here.
The warnings suggested the degree to which Israel's enthusiasm over the safe return of its troops and the end of a costly occupation is undercut by a portent of tension.
The long-awaited deployment took place two months and two weeks after Israel withdrew from its costly occupation, but military and government officials immediately made clear that they had no intention of deploying Lebanese troops along the border with Israel.
Russia is ambivalent toward the NATO mission in Afghanistan, in part because the Soviet Union had a long and costly occupation of the country in the 1980s that ended with a humiliating withdrawal.
On the hotly debated matter of postwar preparation for Iraq, Mr. Blair tries to diminish the role that planning failures played in the "nightmare" that ensued, even though a briefing paper reportedly put together for him and his advisers eight months before the start of war concluded that the American military was not preparing adequately for what could be a protracted and costly occupation.
The leading Republican candidates pledge to continue the costly occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Finally, progressive Democrats must continue to press the Obama administration to end the costly occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
He describes as "meagre" the results of Britain's costly six-year occupation.
Mr Sharon's invasion of Lebanon, as minister of defence in 1982, plunged Israel into a costly and pointless occupation that dragged on for two decades.
The conclusion Palestinians reach is that the way to get results is resistance, is to make the occupation costly to Israel".
