Sentence examples for long occupations from inspiring English sources

Over the next three decades, the Marines conducted long occupations of the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Nicaragua while fulfilling Roosevelt's charge to restore "the ties of civilized society".

During the events of 1968, there were long occupations by students of the architecture faculty in the city as well as massive strikes by workers at Port Marghera.

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.

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.

During the electorate of George William (1620 40), Brandenburg at first sought neutrality in the Thirty Years' War (1618 48) but nevertheless suffered invasions and long occupation by the Swedes.

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

If the upstairs represents the end of an empire, the basement is where the detritus of a long occupation was dumped.

The Lebanese, who had been rather mild in their attitude toward Israel, were embittered by the long occupation and by civilian deaths and suffering.