Sentence examples for occupation act from inspiring English sources

Cooley was living near the Homosassa River, where the Armed Occupation Act of 1842 allowed the distribution of 160 acre land grants.

Florida's Armed Occupation Act of 1842 had granted land to squatters in order to force the local Seminole Indians off the land, but Disston's contract would force the squatters off any land that Disston could show was submerged.

In the early months of the occupation, SCAP acted swiftly to remove the principal supports of the militarist state.

The exception was exposure to the occupation, which would act as a competing exposure in analyses exploring the relationship between birth weight and CVD in later life, since it did not precede birth weight in this cohort and was not considered to be directly related to birth weight in the causal path diagram [ 20].

American occupation leaders also acted out of racial animus, avoiding fuller reforms because they "regarded the Japanese as childlike people, prone to savagery if not taken firmly in hand," the historian Ian Buruma wrote in his 2003 book, "Inventing Japan".

Still better, how could a successful terrorist attack help McCain win the presidency when most terrorism experts argue the American invasion and occupation of Iraq acted as a recruiting coup for al Qaeda.

Individuals don't need permission to take up positions, organize actions, start new occupations or otherwise act on their personal convictions.

But blockade and occupation are recognized acts of war most of us would support resistance to anywhere else in the world.

Much of the money has gone to Occupy efforts in other parts of the country, which sprouted after the movement's first act: the occupation of Zuccotti Park on Sept. 17.

The pope's appeal was based on a longstanding view of the Roman Catholic Church that the Israeli conquest of East Jerusalem and its annexation to Israel was an act of occupation.

Built form can suggest territory, but it is the act of occupation that defines the extent of a territorial claim.