Sentence examples for effective occupation from inspiring English sources

We defeated them with large numbers of troops and we imposed an effective occupation.

We never defeated the Sunnis of Iraq and we never imposed an effective occupation controlling the country.

The universal importance of Gaza was that its effective occupation by the United Nations offered a possible key to the whole refugee problem of the Middle East.

The Berlin Congress had called for the demonstration of "effective occupation," though, and, in an attempt to satisfy this condition, the brutal "pacification" campaign of Capt.

The Rambouillet text, proposed by the then US secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, included a wide range of freedoms and immunities for Nato forces within Yugoslavia that amounted to an effective occupation.

By contrast, during the phase of effective occupation (Middle Holocene) —a period coinciding with climatic fluctuations and decreasing rainfall a greater number of obsidian sources were used suggesting increased knowledge of the landscape as well as a pattern of territorial range shifting.

These migrations marked the beginning of effective Han occupation and the rapid cultural development of Guangdong.

"Raising the Flag" is in essence a cautionary film, carefully detailing the elements of an effective postwar occupation.

They divide into 22 chiefdoms, about half of which were tributary to a larger chiefdom before effective Portuguese occupation in the 20th century.

Britain based its claim on its "open, continuous, effective possession, occupation, and administration" of the islands since 1833 and its determination to apply to the Falklanders the principle of self-determination as recognized in the United Nations Charter.

For Britain the BSAC's great advantage was its promise to make British occupation effective against contending European powers and to bring capitalist development at minimum cost.