Sentence examples for occupy hostile from inspiring English sources

It is not illegal for victorious powers to occupy hostile territory seized in the course of war until they are able to negotiate a successful peace treaty with their former enemies.

"Five years ago, downtown was occupied by hostile forces," Mr. Protopappas said.

If a country is invaded and occupied by hostile forces, it might expect to lose its freedom and its voice.

This would give Sunni towns and districts the feeling of policing themselves rather than of being occupied by hostile Shia forces.

The march toward cops who look and behave like soldiers occupying a hostile country started in the 80s.

The march towards cops who look and behave like soldiers occupying a hostile country started in the 80s.

The Warner family had occupied a "hostile world", where the "night-riding of cossacks, the burning of houses, and the raping of women were part of life's burden for the Jews of the 'shtetl'shtetl

The US swept Iraq's military away like gauze paper when they invaded in 2003, but it turns out that, even after you overthrow a brutal dictator, even when it's one of the most oil-rich nations on the planet, attempting to occupy and control a hostile nation inevitably becomes a horribly expensive catastrophe that costs enormously more than any possible benefits.

It gave commanders discretion to occupy or destroy and expel hostile villages or potentially hostile villages; some destroyed swathes of villages and a few did not.

The house she was forced to flee in the Dora district, occupied now by hostile Sunni neighbours, stands tauntingly close.

In the light of the Snowden revelations, citizens who guard their privacy may already feel that it has been occupied by a hostile force.