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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.
So, we have a dense layer of occupation dating to the Middle Kingdom at this site.
What 'The Sultan's Elephant' represents is no less than an artistic occupation of the city and a reclamation of the streets for the people."
"What occupation do you seek?"
Two men, Rahul and Rajiv, living in the same neighborhood, from the same educational background, similar occupation, and they both turn up at their local accident emergency complaining of acute chest pain.
So if I had to think of some kind of occupation as a metaphor for my work, I would much rather be a fisherman.
And so the thousands of young Muslim men who flocked to Afghanistan in the 1980s to fight against the Soviet occupation of a Muslim country, in their minds they were fighting a jihad, they were doing jihad, and they named themselves the Mujahideen, which is a word that comes from the same root as jihad.
Well, of course, we use Thomas Edison's light bulb to invade the night, and we occupied the dark, and in the process of this occupation, we've treated sleep as an illness, almost.
Now, I know this might sound like a dream job, or possibly a highly dubious occupation, but for me, it's something else altogether.
And after 9/11, there was an entirely new context about the occupation that I chose.
Less than one month after the first physical occupation in Zuccotti Park, a global protest was held in about 82 countries, 950 cities.
I have some ones that were long lasting: from the age of five to 15, this was supposed to be my side occupation, and it led to a sense of failure.
For 18 months in the Intifada, women were the ones calling the shots behind the scenes: Palestinian women from all walks of life in charge of mobilizing hundreds of thousands of people in a concerted effort to withdraw consent from the occupation.
In 1942, my aunt and my grandmother were living in Brussels under German occupation.
She was thrown in prison in Tibet for two years for putting up a little tiny placard protesting the occupation of her country.
First, I'm not here ... just to talk about the occupation we have back home.
So, finding life on another planet is a non-trivial occupation and we spend a lot of time trying to think about that.
"People in the electronic age have no possible environment except the globe, and no possible occupation except information gathering."
Born in Kyoto in 1949, Murakami grew up during the post-World War II American occupation of Japan.
Across India, people hold their breath for the declaration of independence after nearly two centuries of British occupation and rule.
French attempts to reinstate slavery met fierce resistance, with General Christophe even burning the capital city to prevent military occupation.
This map isn't from Hudson's time, but from the American Revolution, 170 years later, made by British military cartographers during the occupation of New York City.
1858 was the year when the courageous uprising against the foreign occupation of India was defeated by the British forces.
It's the symbol of his own occupation: I am a shepherd.
I want to talk about Rachel Corrie who was in her teens when she stood in front of an Israeli tank to say, "End the occupation."
My adolescence was spent during the German occupation of France.
We're advising the Polisario Front of the Western Sahara, who are fighting to get their country back from Moroccan occupation after 34 years of dispossession.
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