Sentence examples for occupation of the two from inspiring English sources

Dr. Richard Potts, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington who was co-leader of the Chinese excavations, said in an interview that the span of almost 100,000 years between the occupation of the two widely separated sites was "a drop in the bucket in terms of evolution".

Most Western European countries, dependent on Russia for oil and especially natural gas, have been eager to restart relations with Moscow despite its continued occupation of the two secessionist regions, and they overcame hesitation from the Bush administration and some Eastern European countries, which wanted Moscow to pay a stiffer price.

Ties have been strained because of a territorial dispute between China and Japan in the East China Sea and objections in both China and South Korea to Japan's stance on its occupation of the two countries during the second world war.

Prince Avalanche gave literal meaning to the road movie: the occupation of the two male characters, Emile Hirsch and Paul Rudd, was painting the center yellow lines on a road through a fire-ravaged forest coming back to life.

A seminal event occurred in 1821, when the rise of Greek nationalism in various parts of the Balkans in connection with the Greek War of Independence led to occupation of the two states by the Filiki Eteria, a Greek secret society who sought, and initially obtained, Russian approval.

For couple households, the highest status occupation of the two partners was used; if the respondent (or partner) was not working, their most recent job was used.

The Russian occupation of the three countries for much of the 20th century makes Swedes seem rather benign.

The occupation of the seven regions arouses more ire within Azerbaijan than the occupation of Karabakh itself, because Armenia has no claim on those territories.

For all his kind words in Tehran, Mr Attiya recently likened Iran's occupation of the three Gulf islands claimed by the UAE to Israel's occupation of Palestinian land.Iranian businessmen have lately complained that it is harder for them to do business via Dubai, since ever-fewer banks in the free-trading emirate are willing to open accounts for them.

Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan, the UAE's foreign minister, called Ahmadinejad's visit "a flagrant violation of the UAE's sovereignty over its territory and a transgression of efforts to find a peaceful settlement to end Iranian occupation of the three UAE islands".

In 1969, the paramilitary Provisional IRA, which favoured the creation of a united Ireland, emerged from a split in the Irish Republican Army and began a campaign against what it called the "British occupation of the six counties".