Occupation in example sentence

Iraq’s Bullets and BallotsWhen the Iraq war started in 2003, the Bush administration had very ambitious plans: as in post-1945 Germany and Japan, a long and peaceful occupation was envisaged, during which expanding oil production would assure rising prosperity as democratic structures were built piece by piece.

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And for a moment I was wondering, are we going to live in order to see real change happening on the ground, a change that does not come through foreign intervention, through the misery of occupation, through nations invading our land and deepening the sense of inferiority sometimes?

These leaders are trying to forge a massive national nonviolent movement to end the occupation and build peace in the region.

When I say coring, it's like ice coring, but instead of layers of climate change, you're looking for layers of human occupation.

What this shows is that at this possible location of Itjtawy, five meters down, we have a layer of occupation for several hundred years, dating to the Middle Kingdom, dating to the exact period of time we think Itjtawy is.

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