Sentence examples for course of the occupation from inspiring English sources

Over the course of the occupation, the Israelis moved their security fences forward, and the settlement spread over the old border.

Much of the reconstruction expense had no useful political effect: as Spencer Ackerman has pointed out, Iraqi officials cannot point to a single completed project that the US managed during the course of the occupation.

Over the course of the occupation, the Americans have already spent $11.3 billion of the $20.2 billion DFI revenues and have committed a further $4.6 billion, much of it in recent weeks.

The spokesman said: "Over the last 12 years, many cases of abuse made against the [Ministry of Defence] during the course of the occupation of Iraq have come to light and been accepted by the government.

American commanders are preparing to pull their troops back from the city of Ramadi, a center of guerrilla activity, and turn it over to Iraqi security officers, an experiment that could change the course of the occupation of Iraq.

An American commander is preparing to pull troops back from Ramadi, a city at the center of guerrilla activity, and turn it over to Iraqi officers, an experiment that could change the course of the occupation of Iraq.

I am speaking, of course, of the U.S. occupation of the Philippines.

They had waited 13 years to hear such words -- words that might have changed the course of the American occupation and the future of Afghanistan had they been spoken in 2001 by Hamid Karzai.

During the course of the Israeli occupation, Deir al-Balah's urban areas extended into lands designated for agriculture largely as a result of building restrictions which hindered organized expansion.

And, of course, the occupation of Lebanon was not like those of the West Bank and Gaza; no Israeli wanted to stay in south Lebanon, and Barak's withdrawal was met mainly with domestic approval.

The political corrosion begins, of course, with the occupation of the Palestinian territories the subjugation of Palestinian men, women, and children that has lasted for forty-five years.