Sentence examples for during its occupation from inspiring English sources

Whites were prevented from becoming landowners by an article of the Constitution, Mr. Dubois said, until the United States rewrote it during its occupation from 1915 to 1934.

Producing a stable Iraqi government is hard to do, as the US found during its occupation, when it left behind a sectarian and Shia-dominated government in Baghdad.

Mr. Mahfud also said that the Indonesian military, which was accused of human rights abuses during its occupation of East Timor, is uncertain just how far it should go to track down weapons.

Radio-TV of Kunduz, the station's proper name, was built by the Soviet Union during its occupation of the land from 1979 to 1989, when it broadcast Russian views, news and television.

The United States thinks it needs Pakistan now, he says, in order to fight Al Qaeda and the insurgents who are carrying out attacks on the NATO troops in Afghanistan (a recent attack on a 100-­ vehicle convoy was launched from Peshawar), just as it needed Pakistan as a base for fighting the Soviet Union during its occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.

Its report is expected to clear the army of systematic abuse of detainees during its occupation of southern Iraq.

One official confirmed that the United States had received valuable intelligence on Afghanistan's cave system from Russia, which had mapped it during its decadelong occupation.

The two then signed a joint declaration in which Japan apologised for "the huge damage and sufferings" it had inflicted on Koreans during its colonial occupation, and which expressed the two governments' desire to work towards normal diplomatic relations.

South Korea has demanded that Japan admit it forced young women into sexual slavery during its 1910-45 ofcupathen of the Korean peninsula, and offer an official apology and compensation.

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Human Rights Watch accused the rebels of imposing a "reign of terror" during its weeklong occupation of the area around Masiaka, a town 45 miles east of Freetown.