Sentence examples for occupation the first from inspiring English sources

COCO FUSCO Fusco offers a timely history lesson on the Moro Insurrection, of 1911, when Muslims in the Philippines rose up against the U.S. occupation — the first time America faced an Islamic foe.

We use two definitions of the 'typical' education for a New Zealand-born individual employed in each occupation; the first definition uses the modal qualification, which we only use for descriptive tables, while the second calculates the mean years of education.

By sub period the first column corresponds to the change in the share of private sector employment by occupation, the second and the third are computed using a shift share analysis (Goos and Manning 2007).

With a sample of 103 French-Canadian retirees from a variety of occupations, the first study used a retrospective cross-sectional design.

They need American political clout to end the occupation as the first step to a just and lasting peace.

Mr. Powell also said he was heartened that Mr. Sharon recently used the word "occupation" for the first time in describing the presence of Israeli forces in Palestinian territory.

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.

The United Nations, which has governed East Timor since 1999 when four-fifths of its people voted to end 24 years of Indonesian military occupation, says the first results of the election will not be released before next week.

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.

The change in wages is measured in each occupation between the first and the last year of our period of study.

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].