Sentence examples for despite the occupation from inspiring English sources

Meetings were suspended after the brief Georgia-Russia war last August; they will restart despite the occupation of the breakaway Georgian enclaves of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

"Without the passport and despite the occupation.

All three of the teachers interviewed for this article agreed that if they had it to do over again, they'd still become teachers, despite the occupation's notoriously low salaries.

VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky visited the occupied building, which despite the occupation, was surprisingly calm.

Despite the occupation of South Kasai, the South Kasaian state was not dismantled and co-existed with the rest of the Congo.

Despite the occupations constant and intense incitement to violence in Bil'in, we have chosen another way.

Knowledgeable diplomats say that France has signaled that, despite misgivings over the occupation of Iraq, it will not veto a resolution to lift the sanctions and may even vote yes.

The Former Jewish Ghetto During World War II about 20,000 Jewish refugees settled in Shanghai, which as an open port required no visa, despite the Japanese occupation.

Despite the German occupation, literary life had managed to flourish along with the other arts: Picasso continued to paint in Paris, and "Les Enfants du Paradis", produced at the time, is regarded as one of the dozen or so best films ever made.

Azerbaijan is ready to host Eurovision song contest and show the world that despite the continued occupation of our lands by Armenia, a large number of refugees and internally displaced people, political games around the country, we go forward and join the number of leading countries in all areas of development in the foreseeable future.

Despite all the disappointments of the occupation, there has been little change in that view, judging by what was almost certainly the first scientifically conducted public opinion poll in Iraq, by the Gallup Organization in late September.