Sentence examples for under harsh rule from inspiring English sources

Since 1967, Israel has militarily occupied the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, placing four million Palestinians under harsh rule, suppressing their right to self-determination and foreclosing on their ability to live under their own free and democratic governance.

Women who lived under harsh rules when al-Shabaab held sway can watch sports and even play.

The country lived under the harsh rule of a dictator, Francisco Franco, for nearly forty years.

Many Afghans have suffered under the harsh rule of the Taliban.

But administration officials said there were psychological benefits to dropping bags of food, because under the harsh rule of the Taliban -- and four years of drought -- conditions have become steadily more bleak.

Or, conceivably there could be a Sunni autonomous region where Sunnis will decide if they would prefer to live under the harsh rule of a terrorist group.

Under the harsh rule of the Martial Empire, there are those who are subject to the Emperor's will, and there are those who enforce it.

They decided to endure life under the Isis harsh rule rather than face destitution in a refugee camp, and until last weekend thought they had survived.

After the death of Stalin, the Chechens fought their way back to their homeland in their beloved mountains and continued to live under harsh Soviet rule.

However, harsh rule was not relaxed after 1960.

Olympio's increasingly harsh rule and policy of fiscal austerity came to an end on January 13 , 1963