Sentence examples for successful occupations from inspiring English sources

As the insurgency grew -- a feature missing from those two successful occupations -- they dropped that comparison.

Germany and Japan after World War II were textbook examples of successful occupations, but they did not proceed according to a predetermined, consistently applied blueprint.

Our successful occupations of Japan and West Germany enabled democracy to be established.

The successful occupation is second time lucky for the activists.

Last night, though, the President showed up and staged a successful occupation of Capitol Hill.

Does America's successful occupation of Japan after World War II provide a model for a constructive American role in a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq?

Progressives have seen the electoral consequences of the tea-party movement's successful occupation of the populist low-ground, and they'd like to occupy it for a little while, too, perhaps to similar electoral effect.

Michael Tomasky The successful occupation of the Republic Windows & Doors factory in Chicago alongside the Republican attack on the United Auto Workers over the terms of Detroit bail-out presage a year of bitter labour struggle in the United States with unpredictable outcomes.

They too have made new promises to support anti-cuts campaigns but we have learned through six days of successful occupation that this support, though welcome, is not vital.

Ms. Rice also believed that "the postwar phase would be like the successful occupation of Germany after World War II, and that it would be possible to plant democracy in a shattered Iraq".

Dan McNeil, the American general who was NATO's top commander in Afghanistan until he left in June, said shortly before concluding his tour that according to current American counterinsurgency doctrine, a successful occupation of Afghanistan, which is larger, more complex, more populous and very much less governable than Iraq, would require 400,000 troops.