occupied country
collocation in Englishmeaningsofoccupiedandcountry
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occupied
adjective
uk/ˈɒk.jə.paɪd/us/ˈɑː.kjə.paɪd/
An occupied place is being controlled by an army or group of people that has moved ...
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country
noun
uk/ˈkʌn.tri/us/ˈkʌn.tri/
an area of land that has its own government, ...
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(Definition ofoccupiedandcountryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Everyoccupiedcountryhas still an underground movement.
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It would provide the kind of localised, almost cellular, organisation for anoccupiedcountrywhich makes life almost impossible for the occupiers.
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And how is it possible to land catches in anoccupiedcountryunder this agreement?
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Could anything be more representative, coming from anoccupiedcountry, than that?
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For them, it must be like living in anoccupiedcountrywhere a small minority have power.
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They are not an underground movement in anoccupiedcountry.
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I recall a case in which a rather important consignment of medical supplies was sent, in 1942, to a certain destination in anoccupiedcountry.
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There would have been revolution in everyoccupiedcountryon the morrow of this happening.
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People who are citizens of anoccupiedcountryhave a right to fight for their country.
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What we see before us is anoccupiedcountryand international law being totally rejected.
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In many parts of everyoccupiedcountrythe most dire suffering undoubtedly exists, and that is a terribly true fact that we must never forget.
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We arc a fairly fullyoccupiedcountrywith a high standard of living.
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We are becoming anoccupiedcountry.
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We do not want to find ourselves in the position of being anoccupiedcountryin which foreign forces are immune from the jurisdiction of our courts.
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We are in effect anoccupiedcountry.
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In anoccupiedcountrydifferent questions arise.
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But it is a generally recognised principle of international law that the occupying country is responsible for maintaining nutrition in theoccupiedcountryabove starvation level.
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Public opinion is not easy to express in anoccupiedcountry.
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The prison capacity was boosted to 2,200, and it became the largest prison in theoccupiedcountry.
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In anoccupiedcountryindigenous history can only be radical.
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