Sentences with phrase «military occupation of»

Following up on your historical analogy, I forgot to mention within my earlier post that Chamberlain accepted the Nazi invasion of Poland, and essentially made an «agreement» with Hitler, in person, in writing, that Britain would not object to the Nazi military occupation of Poland, so long as Hitler «agreed» not to expand militarily any where else... period.

During the U.S. military occupation of Cuba and the construction of the Panama Canal at the turn of the 20th century, U.S. officials made great strides in the control of malaria and yellow fever.

The game takes place in Philadelphia, four years after a Korean military occupation of North America.

Twenty - first century America has spent a very real two decades invested in a global war on terrorism, including military occupation of desert countries.

But even in these cases, the defeats were via domestic «loss of will to fight», not via military occupation of the United States, Soviet Union, or South Africa.

Article 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention is clear about the military occupation of land: the occupier may not under any circumstances exploit and profit from the resources of occupied lands.

We mourn the ongoing 50 - year military occupation of Palestinian land by the Israeli government that has led to such despair and tension.

«Nearly everything was dictated by the central government, with a sort of military occupation of the area by the Civil Protection Department which alienated the townspeople,» he said.

Not exact matches

But — and here's an analogy I'll probably never get to make again — it reminds me of my days writing about military counterinsurgency and the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

These include: itinerary details; the name of the person or organization paying for the trip; the names of every country the applicant has visited in the past 10 years (99 for me); the applicant's current and two previous places of work; every educational institution the applicant has attended; all the professional, civil, and charity organizations of which the applicant is a member or with which he has «cooperated»; the names of all the applicant's relatives in Russia; the details of any training in firearms, explosives, nuclear weapons, and «biological and chemical substances» (which arguably would include everything from acidophilus yogurt to Drano); and details of the applicant's military service, including rank and occupation.

After more than 80 rounds of matching and guessing faces to occupations, the researchers found that the participants were able to accurately pick out the business, military and sports leaders more consistently than if they were guessing by chance.

Finance has become the new form of warfare — without the expense of military overhead and an occupation against unwilling hosts.

The number of American lives lost in the occupation of Iraq now exceeds the number of lives lost in military combat.

watch how the Zionazis are trashing this Jew for showing a little sympathy to the victims of Israeli military dictatorship and occupation / colonization in the UN-recognized state of Palestine.

He and his family live in the West Bank and daily experience the weight of military occupation and oppression.

His Yom Kippur reflections, first published in the Los Angeles Times and widely available on the Web, questioned Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory and criticized the military force with which Israel responded to Palestinian provocations.

Despite preemptive military action, the post - «victory» occupation of Iraq and global involvements elsewhere, America's present policy makers and public officials insist that the term «empire» simply does not apply.

The system is «designed to allow Israel to control every aspect of Palestinian life in the occupied territories while lowering Israel's military profile in order to give the impression to the outside world that what Palestinians refer to as «occupation» is merely proper administration, and that Israel has a «duty» to defend itself and the status quo, Halper says.

It is time for the US to take its troops out of Afghanistan and send them to the West Bank to drive the Israeli military back to Israel and give the Palestinians freedom from Israeli military occupation.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

We should have asked real questions about the grievances caused throughout the world by our economic and foreign policies, military occupations and wars — but of course we don't want to go there!

Strangely, they find the liberation of Iraqis from a vile dictator just, but do not find it unjust for us to be under military occupation for 38 long years.

«Freedom of speech falls alongside other freedoms to live and be free from bombs falling on people's heads and to be free from occupations,» says Omid Safi, religious studies professor at the University of North Carolina, referring to American military and intelligence operations in parts of the Muslim world.

The exceptional circumstance of the Japanese military occupation meant that her home parish of Macau was inaccessible for priests to visit.

As our occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq turned into major fiascoes, discrediting our military leadership, ruining our public finances, and bringing death and destruction to hundreds of thousands of civilians in those countries, I continued to ponder the issue of empire.

Even now, the Democratic majority remains reluctant to use its power of the purse to cut off funding for the war, thereby ending the American occupation of Iraq and starting to curtail the ever - growing power of the military - industrial complex.

Instead of behaving in a professional manner, our military invaded Iraq with far too small a force; failed to respond adequately when parts of the Iraqi Army (and Baathist Party) went underground; tolerated an orgy of looting and lawlessness throughout the country; disobeyed orders and ignored international obligations (including the obligation of an occupying power to protect the facilities and treasures of the occupied country — especially, in this case, Baghdad's National Museum and other archaeological sites of untold historic value); and incompetently fanned the flames of an insurgency against our occupation, committing numerous atrocities against unarmed Iraqi civilians.

Missionaries, usually supported by a military guard, went beyond the borders of white occupation, persuaded the natives to settle down, and taught them the arts of peace and Spanish culture as well as the Christian faith.

The ten years (1979 - 1989) of war against Soviet Union occupation, fought with the military support of the USA, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, ruined the country enormously.

They listed the «occupation» of Palestinian lands, Israel's separation barrier with the West Bank, its military checkpoints, political prisoners, demolition of homes and disturbance of Palestinians» socio - economic lives as factors that have made life increasingly difficult for Palestinians.

After World War II, the military headquarters recognized the need for some guide to the religious groups in Japan and asked the Religious and Cultural Division of the Civil Information and Education Section to prepare a concise description of Japanese religious organizations for the guidance of occupation personnel.

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.

For example a 50 + year military occupation and systematic political - cultural indoctrination of my country of birth complete with Orwellian thought policing, mandatory Russian language classes in school, revisions of known history, and mandatory displays of support for communism.

The case for a military invasion, conquering and occupation of another universally recognized sovereign nation - a war of aggression, or pre-emptive invasion, is against International Laws.

But a future of military occupation or infinite austerity would be catastrophic.

He was an internationalist at heart, also serving on the Council of Europe and campaigning for the rights of Greek people during its military occupation.

Fidel Castro, in contrast, admired the General as a national liberator, in the Bolivarian tradition (and also for standing up to the Americans), while the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat celebrated him as the defender of his people against military occupation.

PAPE: Military occupation is the root cause of suicide terrorism.

And there are two types of military occupation.

Islamic jihadist groups Boko Haram and Al Shabbab terrorize African communities in Kenya, Nigeria, Mali, Somalia, Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Tanzania - which of those countries is engaged in military occupation?

The rest of the world sees Palestine as under belligerent military occupation, but it is not seen in the same light in Israel.

Conflict was narrowly averted in 1995 when the Philippines chose not to shell fort - like Chinese military structures on Mischief Reef (China maintained they were only intended as shelter for fisherman); however, the Philippines continues to assert that this is an example of «creeping occupation».

A partisan is a member of an irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation by some kind of insurgent activity.

There are two classes of Arabs in Israel primarily: Israeli Arabs, who are citizens of Israel, and Palestinian Arabs, who mostly live under occupation by the Israeli military.

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.

A state that's erroneously described as the only democracy in the Middle East treats international law and conventions with contempt, flouts them with increasing regularity and maintains a brutal military occupation [of Palestine] while the whole world looks on,» Mubarak wrote.

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.

The group warned that if the current occupation by the military was not stopped, fleeing residents of the area would face serious humanitarian crisis and pose a problem to the state and the nation at large.

The Cyprus dispute, also known as the Cyprus conflict, Cyprus issue or Cyprus problem, is the ongoing issue of Turkish military invasion and occupation of the northern third of the island since 1974.

«The city was an object of intense interrogation in the build up to the 2007 elections and was among the centres of military occupation immediately after.»