Sentence examples for under British occupation from inspiring English sources

But he was raised in the Ogaden, a region between the Somali-Ethiopian border under British occupation from 1941 to 1948 and now under Ethiopian control.

Those critical features are even more marked in another neoclassical and transitional narrative, Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī's Ḥadīth ʿĪsā ibn Hishām (1907; "Īsā ibn Hishām's Tale"), a highly sarcastic account of turn-of-the-century Egypt under British occupation.

As Richard Archer notes, in "As If an Enemy's Country" (Oxford; $24.95), a lively and sympathetic history of pre-Revolutionary Boston under British occupation, the rioters scattered or stole nearly everything inside, including jewelry, dishes, furniture, paintings, about nine hundred pounds in cash, and an archive of New England history that Hutchinson had spent thirty years collecting.

India was under British occupation less than 70 years ago.

The islands remained under British occupation without any further French attacks until 1802.

New York City, which was under British occupation throughout the Revolution, was under particular threat, Madison felt.

The major set of reforms that began under the rule of Isma'il Pasha continued under the British occupation.

And here was a people, numbering barely 600,000, living cheek-by-jowl with often hostile Arab neighbors, under unsympathetic British occupation, on a harsh soil with no significant natural resources other than human capital in what was then Mandatory Palestine.

The region gradually came under Dutch possession, except for British occupation briefly in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Further south, in the Al Amara area, at least 20 Iraqis were killed after British occupation forces came under attack during the night, said a spokesman, Dominic D'Angelo.

Further efforts to modernize the educational system were made under Hilmi's rule during the British occupation.