Sentence examples for direct occupation from inspiring English sources

Having failed to crush the resistance to direct occupation, they resorted to divide-and-rule to keep their foothold in Iraq.

The Crusades posed a serious threat to the city at the end of the 11th century, and although Damascus managed to escape direct occupation, it endured numerous attacks and sieges and lost large parts of its hinterland.

Besides direct occupation of cultivated land resources, urbanization has led to a loss of cultivated land with good site conditions and a deterioration of the site conditions of unconverted cultivated land in the peri-urban area.

The self-deception of such excuses was self-evident in front of the direct occupation, slaughter and looting; moreover, there were the disregarded desires, plans and goals for conquering China and Asia that were then expressed in public by the Japanese elites.

In the present study, by using cobalt spectrometry, we demonstrated that both inorganic and organic arsenicals interacted with zinc fingers by direct occupation of metal binding sites.

Recent studies have suggested that DAX-1 is not exclusively a nuclear orphan receptor but can be also detected mainly in the cytoplasm, functioning as a potent corepressor for estrogen receptors in mammalian cells, presumably by the direct occupation of the coactivator-binding surface and the subsequent recruitment of additional corepressor [ 37].

Still, the picture is clear: Chechen suicide terrorism is strongly motivated by both direct military occupation by Russia and by indirect military occupation by pro-Russia Chechen security forces.

With the disintegration of Seljuq power and its replacement by Mongol suzerainty, enforced by direct military occupation of much of eastern Anatolia, independent Turkmen principalities one of which was led by Osman emerged in the remainder of Anatolia.

Dr. Albright addressed a rising frustration in the West Bank and Gaza with a peace effort that after seven years still leaves the Palestinians there living either under direct Israeli occupation or in areas whose entrances and exits are controlled by Israeli security forces.

One of the programs, known as the Hardship Fund, pays reparations to Jews who became refugees when they fled the Nazis; the majority of payments from the Hardship Fund went to people from the former Soviet Bloc countries who were not under direct Nazi occupation, but who fled to escape the Nazi advance, according to the indictment.

In 1942, Tunisia became the only Arab country to come under direct German occupation.