Sentence examples for occupation imposed from inspiring English sources

Military defeat in 1940, went the myth, was followed by occupation imposed on the French people by Marshall Pétain, which was lifted only when the Free French led by General de Gaulle joined with the Resistance to deliver France from the Nazis.

The new president condemned what he said was the criminal occupation imposed on the Palestinians.

The army of occupation imposed restrictions, which meant a substantial reduction in energy intake and consumption of fat, meat and milk, and an increase in consumption of fish, cereals, fresh vegetables and potatoes.

The occupation "imposes a myriad of restrictions on the Palestinian economy.

Judging from comments by officials, ordinary Egyptians and newspaper editorials, the Gaza riots are viewed here not as another routine flare-up in the long cycle of violence in the territories, but as the first stirrings of a popular revolt by fellow Arabs against an unwanted occupation and the disadvantaged economic, social and political conditions that occupation imposes upon them.

They committed to a years-long occupation that imposed democratic institutions.

Our relatives, from the Abu Al Saoud family, used to live there until the occupation was imposed.

The occupation has imposed on Palestinians a system of economic dependency, with all transactions subject to Israeli whim.

Hitler tolerated the temporary existence of a quasi-independent Vichy state as a useful device to help police the country and to collect the enormously inflated occupation costs imposed by the armistice.

But an occupation tax imposed upon 100percentnt. of the net receipts of foreign insurance companies admitted to do business in Illinois is a heavy discrimination in favor of domestic insurance companies of the same class and in the same business which pay only a tax on the assessment of personal property at a valuation reduced to one-half of 60percentnt. of the full value of that property.

In the first two decades after the war, the American occupation government imposed strict trade restrictions with Japan.