Sentence examples for occupied islands from inspiring English sources

Soviet troops then occupied islands—still held by Russia that Japan claims as its Northern Territories.As Xinhua, the Chinese news agency, reported it, the purpose of linking Chinese and Russian commemorations would be jointly to "safeguard the outcome" of the war and the "post-war international order".

"If you examine the facts closely, you will recognize who are the countries that have occupied islands under other countries' sovereignty by illegal means.

The facts were still sketchy from the scene — the jointly occupied island of Hispaniola.

She was sunk by Turkish artillery while anchored at the recently occupied island of Kastellorizo in early 1917, five members of her crew being injured.

In fact, China's bark is often far worse than its bite: China has not been at war with another country since a brief armed conflict with Vietnam in 1979, and has been very cautious in its dealings with its neighbors who occupy islands claimed by China in the South China Sea.

That has led to occasional flare-ups and to competition to occupy islands, reefs and sandbars.

Baker compared it to the Pacific Theater of World War II, when Japanese forces occupying islands like Saipan and Iwo Jima held their positions ferociously for months in the face of the American onslaught.

Across snake species there is a tendency for populations that are dwarfed on islands to specialize on small lizard prey and for snakes that are giant to occupy islands that support colonies of nesting seabirds, which provide a seasonally available food source [23], [25]; however, there are exceptions to this pattern (e.g., [26]).

Argentina says it inherited ownership of the islands from Spain, arguing that British colonists occupied the islands by force in 1833 and expelled settlers, violating Argentina's territorial integrity.

We collated data for each of the following three physical characteristics for islands occupied by C. mitchellii: island area, island distance, and island age (Table 1).

Argentina says it inherited ownership of the islands - which it calls Las Malvinas - from Spain, arguing that British colonists occupied the islands by force in 1833 and expelled settlers - thus violating Argentina's territorial integrity.