Sentence examples for maintained their occupation from inspiring English sources

Since then the Russians annexed two Georgian provinces, maintained their occupation, oversaw the departure of international monitors, and announced a doctrine stating Russia's "privileged" status in relation to the former Soviet republics on its borders.

Some protesters wanted to maintain their occupation of the area to press their demands, but others said it was time to leave.China's Communist Party expelled Zhou Yongkang, who retired two years ago from its most powerful body, the Politburo Standing Committee.

The bill, he argued, would ensure that "federal bureaucrats will never have the authority to require those who believe in the traditional definition of marriage to choose between their living in accordance with those beliefs and maintaining their occupation or their tax status".

A1 Some 250 Palestinians maintained their two-week occupation of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem despite harsh conditions.

It offers Saturday and evening classes, as well as online coursework, the objective being to allow students to complete the program while maintaining their daytime occupations.

They maintained their innocence.

The biggest road occupations, near the government headquarters and the legislature, remained in place Friday, and many hundreds of activists maintained their blockade of Mr. Leung's office.

All lymphomas maintained their phenotype.

"They maintain their shape.

(Both men maintain their innocence).

Since then, Turkey has maintained its occupation over Northern Cyprus that proclaimed its independence in 1983.