Sentence examples for first year of occupation from inspiring English sources

During the crucial first year of occupation, the one general who cut a conspicuously different path was Petraeus.

During the first year of occupation, Sovietization consisted primarily of remolding the old political, social, economic, and cultural structures into Soviet forms.

In the first year of occupation, the U.S. brought together prominent Iraqis to form the Iraqi Governing Council — a group, intended as a fledgling government, that in practice did little more than rubber-stamp American proposals.

Food supplies were precarious; production dropped in most areas of Europe, but not as much as during World War I. Greece experienced famine in the first year of occupation and the Netherlands in the last year of the war.

In order to evaluate the actual operation of the buildings and building systems during the first years of occupation of the neighbourhood, energy monitoring and commissioning activities have been performed.

He served in Okinawa and Japan during the first year of the occupation.

Living in Baghdad for the first year of the occupation, he led a surreal existence in a country that had been plunged into chaos.

Allawi had kept an extremely low profile during the first year of the occupation, and his well-known links to U.S. and British intelligence had damaged his reputation among Iraqis.

She thoroughly exposes the historical roots of the first year of the occupation and provides the most comprehensive analysis to date on how we got to where we are today.

Dan Senor is a very nice man — successful in the fields of politics, media, and finance — who slowly lost his credibility in the daily press briefings he gave as L. Paul Bremer's spokesman during the first year of the occupation in Baghdad.

Mr. Sahiq stood in what remains of a movie theater, built here on the grounds of the 108th infantry regiment headquarters, which was thrown up in 1980 in the first year of Soviet occupation.