Sentence examples for day of occupation from inspiring English sources

Today marked their 22nd day of occupation.

He urged Israelis to accept "the unalterable truth: the last day of occupation will be the first day of peace".

I have spent 20 years of my life in Israeli jails, including the past 13 years, and these years have made me even more certain of this unalterable truth: the last day of occupation will be the first day of peace.

"The lesson of Tahrir Square was that once again, democracy has become a revolutionary force," says Shimri Zameret, who spent four months organising the global day of occupation on 15 October that saw people in more than 900 cities turn the square's tent city into a worldwide phenomenon.

Even Ms. Leonard had to smile after she started one story: "I ran into a big crew of kids from Oberlin…" Mr. Saval described the first day of occupation in Philadelphia.

Organisers left full of plans, including a day of occupations on 3 December, plus a day of community outreach on 6 December, with visions of larger and more radical actions (possibly a Quebec-style student strike) in the months to come.

What Liebling in his frequent dispatches provided was a richly textured sense of the day-to-day reality of occupation, invasion, and battle — a foxhole successor of "Homage to Catalonia," a forerunner of "Dispatches".

I arrive on Tuesday, the fourth day of the occupation, and already the place seems staggeringly well organised – and growing fast.

"I sympathized with the Iraqis when we first got here," a young sergeant who has served every single day of the occupation in Iraq said.

Two of his four brothers, police officers, were killed on the first day of the occupation last Thursday, and he himself had just returned from five days of detention, Mr. Kheiralla said.

Cooper's luck ended on the final day of the occupation when he was arrested in Utah – as one of nine additional people charged as the standoff came to a close.