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If they pick an occupation that declines in the next half-century, they may deeply regret it.
But these trends tended to persist within occupations, industries, and educational attainment levels, thus providing little guidance concerning what occupation to choose or how much education to pursue.
Only the Gestapo, during the Nazi occupation, had ever broken this rule.
Parts of the invasion and occupation were certainly badly mishandled by the US, leading to a much greater loss of life than was necessary.
Stubbornly refusing to talk face to face while settlement activities are not completely frozen has focused attention on what many believe is the crux of Israel’s colonial occupation regime.
Thailand ’s universally loved and respected King has not taken a public stand on the occupation of the airports nor on any other recent public demonstrations.
Unlike their predecessors, the new Arab leaders will resolutely demand human rights for Palestinians under Israeli occupation.
In the 1980s, US President Ronald Reagan used Islam as an ideological tool to spur armed resistance to the Soviet occupation.
Indeed, apprentices should be compensated at least at the minimum wage rate in a given occupation.
The administration is paying the price for overselling the reasons for the war and bungling the post-invasion occupation.
As the political scientist Robert Pape has shown in a careful study, resistance to foreign occupation is a prime motivation for suicide bombers.
But, unless he makes it clear that American troops will leave in the near term, he will reinforce the impression of imperial occupation.
The Kashmir question has lingered since 1947, the Turkish occupation of Northern Cyprus since 1974, and Israel’s occupation of the West Bank from 1967.
Obama’s proposal to strike Syria, by contrast, is an attempt to enforce an important human-rights norm by directly punishing – through means that do not involve invasion and occupation – those who committed a gross violation.
Nevertheless, since the liberation of Kuwait following the Iraqi occupation in August 1990, the parliament has gained both stability and respect.
According to Article 9 of the constitution, drafted by American lawyers in 1946, when Japan was under Allied occupation, Japan renounces “war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.”
Constitutional pacifism was part of the postwar order imposed by the United States during occupation and largely supported by the Japanese people, who were tired of war.
This was true of Mao's guerrilla war against the Japanese occupation, the Civil War against Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, the Korean War against the US, and even the Vietnam War, where China backed the North.
As for the Palestinians, the political stalemate, and ongoing Israeli occupation, has led to radicalization: if they cannot have “something,” they want it all.
Whereas the West lost no time in imposing sanctions on President Vladimir Putin’s Russia following its annexation of Crimea, it has not punished Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands.
Like many territories in the region, Gaza has had a long history of foreign occupation, extending to ancient times.
The 1967 war placed all of mandatory Palestine (as well as Sinai and the Golan) under Israeli military occupation.
Like the US occupation of Iraq, the NATO war in Afghanistan will leave behind an ethnically fractured country.
When Germany's President came to Prague, shortly after our Velvet Revolution, on March 15, 1990 (the 51st anniversary of the Nazi occupation of the Czech lands), he did not have to say much, because the fact of his visit on such a day spoke volumes.
Dressed in his military suit until his last day, Abu Ammar (Arafat’s revolutionary nom de guerre) did not believe that it was time to become a civilian president while the Israeli occupation continued.
Although the direct threat of invasion and occupation has diminished, sinister forces still loom and must be confronted.
France's occupation of the Netherlands during the so-called French Period at the turn of the 19th century suggests a better alternative.
Indeed, while Hezbollah prospered under Syrian occupation, it never reached the extraordinary political power that it has today.
During those fifty years, however, the map of world conflict has been rewritten and the means of warfare transformed, while Japan remains locked in viewpoints forged in the trauma of wartime defeat and US occupation.
For Israelis, this would mean permanent occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and thus reckoning with an Arab majority, which would erode the foundations of their state – democracy and the rule of law – and thus its legitimacy.
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