Sentence examples for occupation in the first from inspiring English sources

An ethnically mixed city of more than two million people, Mosul was something of a showcase for the American occupation in the first months after the war.

Tokyo's military ambitions are particularly sensitive because many in China say Japan has not adequately recognised or atoned for its brutal occupation in the first half of the 20th century.

German occupation in the first world war was followed by two decades of independence, although Vilnius was occupied by Poland for most of that time.

As has been shown, a substantial number of beads from the Mapungubwe Hill collection were found to postdate the heyday of the site's occupation in the first half of the second millennium AD and were European imports [21, 22].

The Bosnian capital lost 10,000 people in the war, more than under the German occupation in the Second World War.

Bitterness at the memory of the barbaric Japanese occupation in the second world war sharpens this desire.

He had reigned during Japanese occupation in the second world war and won independence for his country from France in 1953.

Kuper uses soccer to explain, and often upend, Dutch myths about resistance and capitulation during the German occupation in the Second World War.

The series told tales of resistance and collaboration in a fictional French village during the Nazi occupation in the second world war, and starred John Thaw in one of his most accomplished performances.

A 98-year-old man has been charged with Nazi war crimes, with Hungarian prosecutors accusing him of executing and torturing Jews when he was a police chief under German occupation in the Second World War.

Papan is Hong's special project: he has lovingly recreated the dispensary where Sybil Kathigasu, known as the Malaysian Florence Nightingale, secretly treated guerrilla partisans during the Japanese occupation in the second world war.