Sentence examples for extended occupation from inspiring English sources

It could also mean an extended occupation of a large and historically violent country.

Through the Council on Foreign Relations report, the panel of experts and the council sounded an alarm that the Bush administration needed to be more forthcoming about the risks and costs of an extended occupation of Iraq.

During Rwanda's extended occupation of the mineral-rich eastern Congo, he had been accused of running a colonial war of pillage, but he had always said that Rwanda's economic well-being required peace and trade with its neighbors.

Yet Iraqi political figures who compose a seven-member "leadership council" say they believe that an extended occupation would turn the Iraqi population against the coalition and strengthen the Baath Party remnants that appear to be behind the series of assaults on American convoys in central Iraq.

Perhaps, though, after the mobilisation of tens of thousands of outraged workers in February, culminating in an extended occupation of the state capitol, Democrats' attempts to use this grassroots movement to gain control over one chamber of the state legislature couldn't help but feel anticlimactic, not to mention self-serving.

It is a concern of humanity". The intensifying interest in abuses at Unit 731, on the plains of Manchuria about 650 miles northeast of Beijing, is part of a rising tide of Chinese resentment over Japan's conduct during its extended occupation of China.

Mr. Chalabi, however, is now saying that "it was an over reaction," if Washington allowed its fears of Ayatollah Hakim to extend occupation rule.

When the Piedmontese forces entered Rome (1870), he requested them to preserve order by extending occupation around the Vatican, and the papal army was disbanded.

Throughout the 19th century Russia extended its occupation to much of Caucasia; western Armenia, however, was subject to Turkish rule.

The Obama Doctrine involves getting into a conflict zone and getting out fast without ground wars or extended military occupations.

Then, in 1952, Tokyo allowed Washington to extend its occupation of Okinawa for 20 more years.