Sentence examples for while under occupation from inspiring English sources

"It was unable to defend its citizens and, while under occupation, assisted their deaths".

Hungary, which imposed one of the most thorough extermination policies of the Holocaust while under occupation, has a population of about 100,000 Jews.

Their electro-dub and drum and bass uses the electric oud as a hook to draw people in to listen to the field recordings of people going about their daily routines while under occupation.

It is not easy, and certainly not popular, for the Palestinians to stop their antagonistic statements against Israel while under occupation.

The "Vélodrome D'Hiver" incident, commonly referred to as "Vel D'Hiv," is a historical stain for the French, whose founding principles of liberty, equality, and universal citizenship are at odds with the country's collaboration with the Nazis while under occupation.

We claim it is holy and yet the Coptic Pope Shenouda III and the Grand Sheikh of al Azhar, Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, both refused calls to visit Jerusalem while it is under occupation.

Several of the Iraqi political leaders also have said they do not want to conduct trials while the county is under occupation.

One concern expressed by human rights experts, however, is that the decisions of such an Iraqi court would be tainted because it would be formed while the country was under occupation.

A small minority native to the West Bank (about 1.3 million people), for whom the PA claims to speak, will gain UN status as a state under occupation, while the Palestinian refugees in the West Bank (1 million people), along with six million other refugees, risk losing their right of return.

But, right now, much of the change seems to be pushing in a welcome direction, towards a new peace chance in Palestine and the spread of democratic ideas around the Arab world.Arabs everywhere were affected by the spectacle in January of Iraqis defying terrorists to cast their vote and elect a new government, and of Palestinians managing to hold a free election even while under Israeli occupation.

Similarly, Iraq did not cease to be a state while under American occupation.