Sentence examples for prolonged occupation from inspiring English sources

To rephrase a well-known adage, occupation corrupts, but prolonged occupation corrupts profoundly.

They also worry about a prolonged occupation in a post-Hussein Iraq.

What had been envisaged as a swift liberation had become a prolonged occupation.

Prehistoric tracks and other archaeological finds indicate a prolonged occupation of the area ringing the Fens, which were a swampy expanse in prehistoric times.

Most of my recent contacts with Iraqis in Britain indicate that in their view the prolonged occupation is exacerbating the situation.

But Beijing's interest in establishing the principle of legal, pre-emptive armed intervention and prolonged occupation of somebody else's country will not be lost on Taiwan or, indeed, on the Tibetans.

America's new military posture, as outlined by the Obama administration, will seek to avoid prolonged occupations and increasingly rely on units and systems that deliver more bang for the buck.

He realized that prolonged Japanese occupation of Malaya, Burma, Indonesia, and Indochina had unleashed nationalistic aspirations that exhausted European empires would not be able to suppress.

Therefore, in Met-rich conditions (SAM is rich), METTL16 briefly occupied MAT2A due to enzyme turnover, and in Met-deprived conditions (SAM is limited), lack of methylation prolonged METTL16 occupation of MAT2A, which then drives splicing of MAT2A intron and produced more mRNA.

The illegality of settlements is clearly defined in the 4th Geneva Convention, made into humanitarian law after the relatively prolonged Nazi occupation of France.

Ssangyong threatened to seek liquidation if the workers prolong the occupation.