Sentence examples for swiftly occupied from inspiring English sources
Belgium was neutral in 1914 and, though her tiny army chose to fight – and created a breathing space for the British and French forces to organise their campaigns in doing so – the country was swiftly occupied.
and the state was swiftly occupied by Union soldiers to prevent any reconsideration.
On 1 September 1939 the German Wehrmacht launched their invasion, and swiftly occupied Poland along with the Soviet Red Army.
France declared war in September and was swiftly invaded, defeated and occupied by German forces.
This was the outer fringes of the notorious "ghost estates," tens of thousands of structures, half-built and abandoned, or finished but never occupied and swiftly falling apart, which colonized the island in beige clusters during the Irish housing madness.
At Porcupine, which has opened in the downtown spot that Mix It briefly occupied, the transition happened so swiftly that the owners simply kept the generic bistro décor.
By Andrea Thompson At Porcupine, which has opened in the downtown spot that Mix It briefly occupied, the transition happened so swiftly that the owners simply kept the generic bistro décor.
In the 20th century alone, the Japanese occupied the country for 35 years to 1945, swiftly followed by the North Koreans, who were bombed out by the Americans in 1950.
Over four days in August 1995, the Croatian Army swiftly took Krajina, about one-third of Croatia, from the Serbian forces that had occupied it for four years.
(Ending the war swiftly was part of that new order, Mr Bush argued: occupying Iraq would have shattered the coalition and placed America outside international law).
