Sentence examples for enemy occupation from inspiring English sources

Does this sometimes feel like a country under enemy occupation?

That struck home with Italians, whose country was under enemy occupation at the time.

The island doctor described his regime as "living under enemy occupation, without the satisfaction of being able to shoot the bugger".

As the fortunes of war finally turned in the Allies' favour, Beatrice advanced through Belgium, a land destroyed by war and enemy occupation.

Of the terrible years of partition and enemy occupation, a Pole remarked to me in 1976, "With the Germans we lose our life, with the Russians our soul".

These viewpoints match with wider discussions about whether people perceive Roman Britain as the origin of European civilization or as an enemy occupation — and illustrate how perceptions of Britain's past are still colouring its politics and society today.

Hull focuses on seven cases in which each government's response was shaped by its understanding of and respect for the law: Belgian neutrality, the land war in the west, the occupation of enemy territory, the blockade, unrestricted submarine warfare, the introduction of new weaponry (including poison gas and the zeppelin), and reprisals.

"The prominent culture in our society is that [Israel] is an enemy, an occupation.

In February, he declared his militia "the enemy of the occupation".

The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said, 'The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews.' " I asked Yassin whether this was propaganda or policy — whether the enemy was the occupation, or Israel.

Yet during my recent visit to Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut and the West Bank, I often heard, "it's not the Jews, the enemy is the occupation".