Sentence examples similar to states occupation from inspiring English sources

France has been slow to extend financial aid to Iraq as long as that country remains under United States occupation.

When San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marichal lifted his bat to swing at the head of Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Johnny Roseboro -- a moment captured in an iconic photo that paints Marichal as the villain -- he was already emotionally charged from the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic, his home country.

Better to imitate the short United States occupation of Japan, where people benefited from land reform, more open education, workplace rights, government-led economic development and political democracy.

The Islamic nations said the United States occupation should end as quickly as possible.

That has changed under the United States occupation, said Fakhir Ali al-Jamaly, the secretary general of Iraq's Paralympic committee.

Haiti's army has been feared since it was founded in 1915, during a United States occupation that lasted until 1934.

He started learning about Japanese art in 1946, as a Navy officer in Tokyo with the United States occupation forces.

Under the United States occupation, Ms. Takamine flourished in the sort of roles -- modern, liberated women -- encouraged by the American authorities as a break with imperial traditions.

The current palace was designed by a Haitian architect but completed by American naval engineers in 1920 during a United States occupation.

Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru once mocked the United States occupation in Japan for "its generally happy ignorance of the amount of requisite knowledge it lacked".

And until the United States occupation gives way to an international administration, most of those troops will have to be American.