Sentence examples for occupation of her from inspiring English sources

During World War II she witnessed the Allied occupation of her country.

Ms. Thorson, you're told, took up bounty hunting, the occupation of her husband, Ralph, after he was killed by a car bomb.

But until her release in March, she had defied that and worse while serving 11 years of a 21-year sentence for protesting against the Chinese occupation of her homeland.

A teenage girl slaps and taunts a soldier who has invaded her family's home, shot her cousin, and is a member of an illegal army of occupation of her people's land (Palestinian teenager who slapped soldiers agrees plea deal..., 22 March).

All she could remember was being intrigued by the occupation of her great,great, grandfather Joseph Davies.

Aminatou Haidar, a nonviolent activist from Western Sahara and a key leader in her nation's struggle against the 33-year-old U.S.-backed Moroccan occupation of her country, won this year's Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.

Certainly the morbid pre-occupations of her books seem to have had very little effect on the rest of her social life, for she was determined that her writing would always be of secondary importance to the living of her life, and the carrying out of her social wifely, and motherly duties.

Greta Kent was born into a musical family in 1895 and her book, A View From the Bandstand (Sheba Feminist Publications, published this week, £3.95) is leaves from her family album, showing the principal occupation of herself, her mother and numerous aunts and cousins: they were the girls in the bands.

Those years also included hard times: her hotelier father's bankruptcy, the declaration of World War II, the German occupation of France, her English mother's being arrested and ordered to report to the police every day.

Stein was an American who lived her adult life as a writer in France, where, historians suspect, she survived the Nazi occupation because of her connections to a Vichy figure.

But the first journalist to receive them was actually Laura Poitras, a documentary-maker whose 2006 film about America's occupation of Iraq earned her years of harassment by security officials at American airports.