Sentences with phrase «occupation of»

Judah Benjamin was born in 1811 in the West Indies during the British occupation of the Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands).

Rituals and tasks designed to accomplish these goals become much more difficult following the occupation of the Pakistan Army beginning on March 25, 1971.

Powerful illustrations illuminate a little - known aspect of World War II resistance: the heroic Muslim effort to orchestrate the escape of Jews who were aggressively pursued by Nazis during the four - year occupation of Paris.

Based on a true story of a small Jewish child who hid to survive the Nazi occupation of Holland — and didn't know his parents when they came to get him after the war — this spare, beautiful novel is a dramatic way to introduce middle - schoolers to Holocaust history.

As Ford continues its tireless march toward the occupation of every nook and cranny of the performance car market, the U.S. automaker announced power output changes for the upcoming 2017 Ford Fusion Sport.

Their claims feed the mantra of left - wingers, who are still celebrating their occupation of Wall Street and accompanying attack on the one - percenters.

Benjamin Netanyahu's announcement that Israel will build in area E-1 and make impossible a contiguous Palestinian state is in line with the objectives of the Jewish only settlement project that began in 1967 with the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

A building energy management system (BEMS) can typically control up to 80 per cent of a building's energy usage, so it's clear to see how using access control to optimise the system to suit the variable usage and occupation of a building can streamline energy usage.

Despite tight budgets and timescales, the school was in occupation of the build by the deadline of the Easter holidays 2017, with planning permission granted in 5 weeks.

The scorecards will cover young people aged 16 - 19 and rate how well councils perform in a number of areas, including the percentage of young people offered a place in education and how successfully councils are tracking the occupation of teenagers who are not in school.

And we connected our drawings to several concepts we explore in art, such as appropriation; occupation of physical space; art on, off, or outside the walls; and the nature of ephemeral art.

Teacher unions effectively define the occupation of public school teaching.

This handaxe was a chance find in an area of eastern England where research has led to the date of the earliest human occupation of Britain being pushed back by 300,000 years.

Insoluble Palestinian question, which has existed since the end of the 1st World War when the victorious powers contributed to the occupation of Palestine by the Jewish people and facilitated the creation of the State of Israel at the expense of the Palestinian people, makes the Palestinian and Jewish people to live at permanent war.

The big screen adaptation of Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows» international bestselling epistolary novel of the same name stars James («Cinderella») as journalist Juliet Ashton, a woman who forms a bond with a secret book society formed during German occupation of the Channel Islands during WWII.

In the alternative universe of Resistance (2011, Metrodome, 15), the failure of the D - Day landings has resulted in the Nazi occupation of Britain, leaving it to a group of plucky resistance fighters in the Welsh valleys to defend the motherland.

There's a serious film to be made about the German occupation of the Channel Islands.

Anne Brodie: The Zookeeper's Wife goes far deeper in to the realties of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw than the trailers suggest.

Written during the Nazi occupation of France but left incomplete at the time of Némirovsky's death in Auschwitz in 1942, Suite Française was completed posthumously and published in 2004.

The Handmaiden, 2016 Directed by Park Chan - wook Starring Min - hee Kim, Kim Tae - ri, Jung - woo Ha, Jin - woong Jo SYNOPSIS: During the Japanese occupation of Korea, young con - woman Sook - Hee is hired to be a wealthy heiress's handmaiden at an isolated countryside estate.

Losing fuel and oxygen rapidly, the once lofty objectives of scientific exploration are abandoned in the all - consuming, humble occupation of just keeping the crew alive.

During the Japanese occupation of Korea, young con - woman Sook - Hee is hired to be a wealthy heiress's handmaiden at an isolated countryside estate.

I would have serious concerns about my homeland security if a middling director could make a film about the infiltration and occupation of the White House that makes me think it could actually happen.

Opening with the much - publicized occupation of Tahrir Square, the film initially seems overly familiar, trotting out different angles of the same images seen on CNN.

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

This lush, Technicolor tragic romance from Luchino Visconti stars Alida Valli as a nineteenth - century Italian countess who, during the Austrian occupation of her country, puts her marriage and political principles on the line by engaging in a torrid affair with a dashing Austrian lieutenant, played by Farley Granger.

Emperor Rated PG - 13 for violent content, brief strong language and smoking (historical) Available on DVD and Blu - ray During the U.S. occupation of Japan directly after their surrender during WWII, a young general (Matthew Fox) is assigned by General MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) to investigate war crimes and the possible involvement of the Japanese Emperor in the decision to attack Pearl Harbor.

(Grade: B)-- Lake Bell's charming In A World may be the first film to explore the occupation of voice - over artists (otherwise known as the folks with soothing and booming voices narrating trailers and commercials).

They include a Todd Haynes retrospective and a conversation with the filmmaker; the documentary premiere Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock, which looks back at the 2016 Native American occupation of the Dakota Access Pipeline; and Amazon's Cannes Film Festival closer, Lynne Ramsay's sublime noir You Were Never Really Here, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a befuddled assassin who is hired to bust down a sex - trafficking ring that has captured a senator's daughter.

Based on true events in the resistance against the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, the film is so effective at its generic thrills, the suspense and action sequences and quiet moments of melancholy patriotism and laments for lost comrades that form the core of the resistance / war film, everything from For Whom the Bell Tolls to Army of Shadows, that one almost doesn't notice that she's radically revised one of the most masculine of genres into a story about the unbreakability of women.

For twenty years, he wrote in 1967, he had been waiting for «the real film» about the Nazi occupation of France, showing the French majority «who were involved neither in t...

For those who missed the first film, Ip Man (played by Hong Kong martial arts maestro Donnie Yen) is the real - life martial Chinese arts teacher and proponent of Wing Chun style who was a hero during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria but is more famous to the western world for mentoring the young Bruce Lee.

The biggest irony about Best Laid Plans is Nick's occupation of working at a recycling plant, since the plot is basically nothing but recycled bits of much better films.

Yet another war film is set to hit your screens this Spring, as Nicholas Hoult stars as a US Army soldier in «Sand Castle»; a Netflix Original Film about the occupation of Iraq in 2003.

Richard Armitage co-stars as a knight enforcing the Norman occupation of Ireland who accompanies the group for awhile, and John Lynch and Hugh O'Conor appear as monks who aren't quite ready for the viciousness of the world beyond the monastery.

In an early scene, when the women briefly observe the meaningless occupation of the construction site and begin laughing, the choral function of the perpetually amused black characters in Elia Kazan and Tennessee Williams's Baby Doll is what sprang to my mind.

KITE is a sadistic little film that returns us to a dystopian future where civilization is just a suggestion, and mayhem is the main occupation of everyone, no matter what their official calling.

A story centered around a romance between a French villager and a German soldier during the early years of the German occupation of France.

Here is a gorgeous and dutifully sombre film that tells the (mostly) true tale of Warsaw zookeepers Jan and Antonina Żabiński, who kept 300 Jews hidden in their zoo's labyrinthine grounds during the Nazi occupation of Poland.

The film is set in 1938, near the beginning of the Shōwa era in Japan, a tempestuous period that ended in 1989 with Hirohito's death and included such major traumatic events as the Sino - Japanese War, WWII, and the Allied occupation of Japan.

Yet, curiously, it does the details rather well — the hardships that went with the German occupation of Guernsey, for instance.

Together they uncover papers proving government cover - ups and atrocities committed during the occupation of Vietnam.

Defying the Nazis: The Sharps» War (Unrated) Ken Burns co-directed this documentary recounting the heroic mission mounted in 1939 by American minister Waitstill Sharp and his wife Martha to rescue scores of Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi occupation of Europe.

September 7, 2016 • Wednesday marks the start of the federal conspiracy trial against militia leader Ammon Bundy and six other defendants who staged an armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.

In the first essay of the three, Dong Hoon Kim asks questions about the definition of Japanese cinema in light of the occupation of the Korean peninsula and the validation of the Japanese cinema laws there during this time.

Tackling the role at 12 years of age, he displayed stunning range in the story of a young British boy's experiences in Shanghai during the Japanese occupation of World War II.

Niki Caro's The Zookeeper's Wife recounts the efforts of Antonina Żabiński and her husband, Jan, who risked their lives during World War II to harbor Jewish refugees in the basement of their zoo during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw.

Ip Man (Well Go USA)-- Hong Kong martial arts star Donnie Yen plays the legendary Ip Man, teacher and grandmaster of Wing Chun, in this biographical drama (one in a long line of such tributes) based on the master's life during the Japanese occupation of China.

Based on real characters and events, this haunting drama focuses on the personal sacrifice of a Prague history student, Jan Palach, who set himself on fire in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1969.

Lake Bell)(Grade: B)-- Lake Bell's charming In A World may be the first film to explore the occupation of voice - over artists (otherwise known as the folks with soothi...