Sentence examples for returned to occupied from inspiring English sources

When Germany invaded France in 1940, the Wertheimers, who were Jewish, fled to New York, where Estée Lauder helped set them up; a daring employee returned to occupied France and smuggled out enough jasmine and rose extracts to produce No. 5 in large quantities.

Fichte soon returned to occupied Berlin, however, where, in the winter of 1807/8, he delivered his celebrated Addresses to the German Nation (published in 1808).

As a young man, he returned to occupy the house he grew up in.

In 1648 a group of nuns returned to occupy the buildings, and the Solitaires moved to Les Granges on a neighbouring hillside.

They dismantled a sprawling protest camp in Bangkok's historic quarter but the protesters returned to occupy the road later on the same day.

From Canaan the Hebrew ancestors of the people of Israel (named after the patriarch Jacob, also called Israel) migrated to Egypt, where they lived in servitude; a few generations later they returned to occupy part of Canaan.

He is largely credited with the defeat of French forces who had returned to occupy Indo-China at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, where Viet Minh fighters besieged the French from rugged mountain terrain.

At the same time as Milton S. Eisenhower returned to occupy the presidency temporarily, a new provost was also named.

Ms. Malik cautioned that any of several troublesome factors could return to occupy center stage.

There's a particularly poignant moment in Jean-Pierre Melville's film The Army of the Shadows when two French résistants on a secret mission to see de Gaulle in London take the chance to see Gone With the Wind before returning to Occupied France and their probable deaths.

The Turks returned to take and occupy the town from 1596 to 1687.