Sentence examples for occupying powers from inspiring English sources

But, almost a decade after the war, the occupying powers showed few signs of clearing out.

As a general rule, occupying powers tend to push countries into corruption, not pull them out of it.

The Hague regulations require that occupying powers respect the laws in force in a country "unless absolutely prevented".

Those elected were to make up a National Assembly, establish a government, and arrange with the occupying powers for the withdrawal of their troops from Korea.

It also opens the way for other states "that are not occupying powers" to come to Iraq and work under the occupying authority.

"Primary duty for security rests with the occupying powers, particularly in the case of revenge killings," says Kathleen Cavanaugh of Amnesty International.

The resolution would give a limited but independent role to a United Nations special representative to help the occupying powers and Iraqi groups create a new government.

By 1946, the failure of the occupying powers to get to grips with the problem of Germany was not only an eerie recapitulation of Versailles, 1919.

In 1948 the Soviet Union began a road and train blockade of Berlin in order to cut the city off and chase away the three other occupying powers.

Perhaps itself blinded by a strain of arrogance peculiar to occupying powers, it continued to pummel a subject population into submission.

Without that order the machinery in the plant would probably have been disbursed among the occupying powers and the factory shut forever.