Sentences with phrase «military occupation meant»
The exceptional circumstance of the Japanese military occupation meant that her home parish of Macau was inaccessible for priests to visit.
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As mad as it sounds, the Germans actually organised a football league during their occupation - consisting of several military teams from the Fatherland, Hungary and Rumania plus two Russian teams - but their bid to use this league for their own propaganda means came unstuck when the former players of Dynamo Kiev refused to lay down and die.
The resolution called for an «immediate ceasefire», and permitted the international community to use «all means necessary short of military occupation'to prevent further civilian casualties.
Whereas other parts of Nigeria have dispensed with military occupation, in Igboland Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Igbo governors have actively encouraged it as a means of holding the people down for their northern masters.