military occupation

collocation in English

meaningsofmilitaryandoccupation

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military
adjective
uk
/ˈmɪl.ɪ.tər.i/us
/ˈmɪl.ə.ter.i/
relating to or belonging to the ...
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occupation
noun
uk
/ˌɒk.jəˈpeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɑː.kjəˈpeɪ.ʃən/
a ...
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(Definition ofmilitaryandoccupationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The historical setting that follows introduces the contentious arena that took shape following the 1967militaryoccupation.
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The demands for timber together with themilitaryoccupationof the estate were to leave an important legacy for the succeeding estate managers.
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He shows how people's ' ethnic flexibility ' operated with various groups forming alliances to preventmilitaryoccupation.
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She describes the everyday meaning ofmilitaryoccupation, displacement, and violence among women who have made extraordinary efforts to carry out basic family and community needs.
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They would be wholly unreliable in a crisis if we made the answer entirely amilitaryoccupation.
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It is, therefore, a question of themilitaryoccupationcoming from us, and we have to find the money and the men.
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He called for self-determination, and graphically outlined the unsuitability ofmilitaryoccupationas a form of government for that area.
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Militaryoccupationcan exist only in that meaning—while there is a state of war.
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On the other hand, all forces engaged in foreign countries for the protection of life and property are not necessarily inmilitaryoccupation.
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What are foreign countries where troops are neither for the protection of property nor life, and yet in which they are inmilitaryoccupation?
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Has a similar reduction been made in any other country wheremilitaryoccupationhas taken place?
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Some countries invade their neighbours and hold foreign territory undermilitaryoccupation.
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They go wherever they can; but naturally they must start from the areas where we are inmilitaryoccupation.
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They have created the necessity for thismilitaryoccupation, and they ought to learn to bear its burden.
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Hundreds of thousands have become refugees and some 28 million people are being oppressed, plundered and violated under themilitaryoccupation.
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I say bluntly that, in the middle east, we are talking about themilitaryoccupationof land.
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Therefore, we have a second class of person who is not there to protect life or property, but yet is there inmilitaryoccupation.
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Now for the first time they are effecting amilitaryoccupationof territory inhabited by people with whom they have no racial connection.
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