Sentence examples for long occupation from inspiring English sources

Because of the long occupation of Spain by the Moors, a style called Mudéjar evolved.

That there's a long occupation about to follow is, as you would expect, prefigured here.

The Free Tibet campaign will also protest against China's long occupation of the Himalayan territory and subsequent rights abuses there.

Because Madrid was loyal to the Spanish Republic, it lived through the postwar period as a long occupation.

The long occupation has paralyzed the glittering commercial center of the city, which has become a lawless zone sealed off from traffic and guarded by protesters.

The style matches the pulp novels that were popular with American readers during the Marines' long occupation of Haiti that began in 1915.

The French did their best to name every island during their century-long occupation.

This week her latest work, "Color Jam," begins a summer-long occupation of an intersection in the Loop in downtown Chicago.

Police and university security in Birmingham have broken up a week-long occupation at the university in an early raid this morning.

— The Texas Rangers have proved dominant and resilient during their nearly season-long occupation of first place in the American League West.

"It is very hard to figure out what to commemorate, what to remember and what to forget, during a nineteen-year-long occupation," she writes.