Sentence examples for idea of occupation from inspiring English sources

Although some Hussein loyalists either paid or prodded by his sons are suspected of killing American soldiers, the attacks are also likely to be the work of Iraqis opposed to the very idea of occupation, tribal members bent on revenge for dead relatives and fanatics who believe Islam is at war with the West.

But America has returned to the idea of military occupation".

The authors of the letter play on the idea of foreign occupation over and over again.

There is great resistance to the idea of foreign occupation of any sort".

For Palestinians, most of whom are under the age of fifty, the idea of perpetual occupation is nothing new it has defined their entire lives.

But social media also plays a negative role, encouraging Palestinians to live in a virtual reality and romanticizing the idea of resisting occupation at a time when they lack a clear way forward.

"A lot of people feel like LaVoy — he can't speak here now — but a lot of people feel like he was a man that was a coward or anything, and he stood his ground, and so let's not let his death be in vain, let's not let this event be trampled over," the militiaman said, adding that the idea of the occupation was that "everybody was supposed to hold their ground".

Arab nations have a painful history of Western colonization, and there is an instinctive resistance to the idea of a Western occupation of Arab soil.

Sen. John McCain appeared on the Today Show this morning and continued to promote his idea of a long occupation in Iraq.

Seen in different ways by different commentators with different agendas, the only thing they could agree on was that the images represented a vivid summation of some idea: of the brutality of occupation; of the weakness of the soldier involved; of the need to use more or less violence on demonstrators; of the use by Palestinians of children as a propaganda tool.

— John Ensslin, President of the Society of Professional Journalists "We have not given up our commitment to the tactic of occupation — the idea of having an outdoor space with tents and so forth.