Sentences with phrase «occupies territories of»

A number of small groups in the occupied territories of Palestine began to call for jihad, or holy war, against Israel.

Procedure for entry to the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine and exit from it mentions diplomatic and consular functions, journalist activities, and religious activities.

Every year on September 10th Belize celebrates St. Georges Caye Day, the day that a heroic crew of British settlers, buccaneers and slaves defeated the Spaniards from occupying the territory of Belize.

This radical re-marketing of the island's contemporary art raises funds to resist the oppression of communities displaced by civil war, channelling resources that are not under government control to the formerly Tamil - occupied territories of the North and East of the country.»

It was also a tour de force for the artist, whose work previously has largely occupied the territory of drawing installations, with sculpture as a secondary part of his production.

As a result, the Act now prohibits Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and stateless persons residing in Canada from illegally exporting cultural property from an occupied territory of a State Party.

Not exact matches

Th round catapults the firm into «unicorn» territory, the swelling ranks of private firms occupied by young guns valued at $ 1 billion or more.

Both sides have staked out nearly identical corners of the Bitcoin space, with one group occupying bitcoin.org, Bitcointalk and / r / Bitcoin, while the Cash upstarts are squatting on the barely - distinguishable territories of bitcoin.com, @bitcoin and / r / btc.

It says: «As referred to in UN Security Council Resolutions 446 and 465, Israeli settlements in the occupied territories are a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

5 a: a politically organized body of people usually occupying a definite territory; especially: one that is sovereign b: the political organization of such a body of people c: a government or politically organized society having a particular character

@ momoya: It's a kinder version of taking over an occupied territory.

The Occupied Territories include large areas of rich soil which need only water to flourish.

The curtain rises upon two small kingdoms of kindred blood and speech, occupying the territory now known as Palestine: the Kingdom of Judah in the south, with its capital at Jerusalem, and the Kingdom of Israel (or of Ephraim) in the north, with its capital at Samaria.

From the prophets, Mary knew that God could very well use someone like her — an unmarried teenage girl, a minority in an occupied territory at a turbulent time in history — to bring the Messiah into the world in the most unceremonious way: through water and womb, blood and labor pains, lullabies and gentle kisses and the helplessness of a baby's cries.

It occupies a territory 150 miles long and 80 miles wide, about the size of the state of Vermont, and is in nearly the same latitude north of the equator as our state of Georgia.

The US has never recognised Israeli sovereignty over the territory occupied, including east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians want to make the capital of a future independent state.

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.

@Chad «ok, so you have given up on maintaining that Babylonians Romans, Persians, Ottomans ever had any «common practice of destroying the gods, and killing the religious followers of the conquered indigenous people (don't forget, Christianity arose as a sect of Judaism, in an occupied Roman territory (Judea).

The Romans were usually tolerant in religion but they sometimes persecuted Christians (a religion that arose in an occupied territory (Judea), a sect of a religion (Judaism) that the Romans had allowed to stay after their conquest].

Commerce was often followed by territorial conquest and this by the conversion of the inhabitants of the occupied territory.

For a peasant woman's child in occupied territory in an out - of - the - way corner of the Roman Empire to have become the man he did, attracting what looked like flash - in - the - pan attention during his brief years of ministry, unknown to most of his contemporaries and viewed as an upstart, a wonder - worker, or a fanatic by most of those who knew about him, dying a felon's death deserted by most of his close and trusted friends with the incredible rumor then circulated that he had risen again — what chance had he of any lasting fame?

The more obvious answer is, of course, that life in Eastern Mediterranean occupied territory, in a simple, leisurely, prescientific age, among a small minority having no political power, was very different from the conditions of today.

Its cities lay in ruins, foreign armies divided and occupied its territories, millions of people were in flight and without shelter; the entire population faced starvation.

«The Palestinian sites of al - Haram, al - Ibrahimi / Tomb of the Patriarchs in al - Khalil / Hebron and the Bilal bin Rabah Mosque / Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem: the Board voted 44 to one (12 abstentions) to reaffirm that the two sites are an integral part of the occupied Palestinian Territories and that any unilateral action by the Israeli authorities is to be considered a violation of international law...»

Their life as an «odd sect» with the simplest of economic pursuits within occupied territory did not give occasion for such responsibility.

German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order throughout the occupied Russian territories, and a system of military strong - points must be evolved to cover the entire occupied country.»

I think drones are the way to go 1) cheaper 2) Cuts down on the loss of servicemen 3) less injuries to servicemen mean less cost to the taxpayer 4) The enemy can't say «we're occupying» their territory 5) Instant response 6) keep enemy off guard Last but not least 7) THEY WORK!

The Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, also mentioned by Bartley, saved tens of thousands of Jews in Nazi occupied Hungary from the Holocaust by sheltering them in buildings designated as Swedish territory and by issuing them with protective passports.

However, last week, the United Nations condemned Israel's presence there, calling the site «an integral part of the Occupied Palestinian Territory».

The influx of cheap Arab labor from the occupied territories has undermined one of the most basic concepts of mainstream Zionism, avodah ivrit — the sacredness of Jewish labor, the idea that Jews must stop being middlemen, as they were so often forced to be in the Diaspora, and do their own dirty work.

In the seventh century the Bulgars, an Asiatic folk of Turkish or Hunnic stock, occupied territory north of Constantinople.

Reared in a Jewish tradition that prided itself on being the chosen people of God, living in occupied territory where Roman superiority and Jewish superiority were always in uneasy tension, he lived on a plane that made a Roman centurion say of him, «Truly this was a son of God!»

But 61 percent of respondents opposed any compromise on Jerusalem, and 75 percent agreed with the statement, «The goal of the Arabs is not the return of occupied territories but rather the destruction of Israel.»

Deborah seems to belong to the the hills between Ramah and tribe of Issachar in territory Bethel, in Canaan's central region occupied by Benjamin.

C. S. Lewis wrote in his book Mere Christianity that this world is enemy - occupied territory and that Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.

occupied a territory in the sparsely settled central hill country of Canaan bounded on the cast by the Jordan, on the west by the coastal plains, and on the north and south by strong Canaanite city - states.

The people in Palestine still occupied their own territory and continued to live by their own traditions; but for that very reason they were not obliged to cut themselves off so completely from the rest of the world as were the Jewish people later, when it became necessary for their self - preservation, exiled as they were from their land and scattered among the nations of the world.

In addition to confiscating land, Israelis have taken control of road systems, water supplies, electricity, employment and markets in the occupied territories.

Thus, Israel's repressive policy toward Palestinians in the occupied territories is designed to keep the non-Jewish populace in the status of noncitizens, and to force many of them to emigrate.

When Israeli soldiers killed a woman and her six children on Lebanese territory, which they have occupied in violation of all UN resolutions, this is not called terrorism.

The real reason for the raid was probably the fact that the Alternative Information Center was collecting data on the torture of Palestinian prisoners in the occupied territories.

The essays gathered in The End of the Peace Process speak eloquently and defiantly of the failure of Palestinian leaders to recognize the need to move from a revolutionary guerrilla entity to a mature democratic movement representing the needs of its constituency within and outside of the occupied territories.

Israel has the structures of a Western democracy, with a representative government and courts, but the non-Israeli residents of the occupied territories are ruled by the military government.

It is estimated that 90 per cent of the schoolchildren between 12 and 20 in the occupied territories have been arrested at least once.

For example, the water from the Sea of Galilee has been diverted for Israeli agricultural use in the Negev while West Bank residents now rely for some 60 per cent of their water on supplies controlled by Israel, which has prevented the digging or repairing of wells by residents in the occupied territories.

Every such state has the right to territorial integrity which means that another state may not occupy parts of its territory.

«It can not be force used against the territorial integrity or political independence of another State because the actor State is merely occupying its own territory.»

It was a clear anti-Jewish insinuation,» recalls Kaufman who is one of Parliament's sternest critics of Israeli policy in the occupied territories.

Therefore, what the question comes down to is whether a state has the right to try to recapture part of its territory occupied by another state.

Trump did move the US embassy to Jersualem, half of which the EU consider part of the occupied Palestinian territories.