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Occupied in sentence

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They failed to comprehend that Iraq has long been an occupied and externally manipulated country.
What is the objective of this policy of expansion in the occupied territories?
Those territories that were to be used after the 1967 war as bargaining chips in exchange for recognition of Israel and peace are now permanently occupied in order to prevent the formation of a Palestinian state with the sovereignty and territorial continuity necessary for a small but autonomous state.
As a result, the occupied territories have become an obstacle to peace and, paradoxically, a threat to the very security of Israel, its citizens, and its soldiers.
Given magnitude of settlement and the power of vested interests, a forced evacuation of the occupied territories is unthinkable.
Iraq was established in the 1920's by the British, who occupied the region after the Ottoman Empire disintegrated at the end of WWI.
The US should now do right by this peaceful and democratic country: recognize Mauritius’ rightful ownership of Diego Garcia, renegotiate the lease, and redeem past sins by paying a fair amount for land that it has illegally occupied for decades.
(They owed their salvation mainly to resolute action in occupied France by the Emergency Rescue Committee, whose valiant volunteers included Varian Fry and Hannah Arendt).
The dialectic of occupation plays strange games, both with occupier and occupied.
Being tasked with maintaining the territories Israel has occupied since the Six-Day War in 1967 evidently causes the military and security brass to support political measures that would end the occupation.
Moreover, acts of incitement and terrorism emanating from the occupied territories have intensified.
Ukraine, which has been occupied for more than 300 years of its history, knows what it is like to have its language threatened.
Annexing occupied territories, disenfranchising Arab Israelis, and brutally subjugating the Palestinian people is a recipe for perpetual conflict between Israel and its neighbors.
Nonetheless, over the past 13 years, Netanyahu has enthusiastically supported the expansion of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
To rally support for Netanyahu in the election, Trump formally recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, bragging later that he arrived at the decision after receiving a “quick” history lesson from his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
As Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank continue to expand, time is running out.
Bennett has declared that he wants to annex over 60% of the occupied West Bank.
Shaked also wants to annex most of the occupied West Bank.
And, in fact, conditions at those centers are so poor that they invite comparisons with the internment camps in Vichy France that housed refugees from occupied Europe in the 1940s.
Yes, candidates on the left paid lip service to the problem, and Benny Gantz, the colorless leader of Blue and White, muttered something about the need for a “diplomatic move” with respect to the occupied territories, but that was it.
In 2017, China occupied the Doklam Plateau – at the intersection of Tibet, Sikkim, and Bhutan, and claimed by the latter – following a 73-day military standoff with India, the de facto guarantor of Bhutanese security.
Though Gantz has opposed unilateral annexation of Palestinian territories, he has committed to annexing the Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank.
Since late April, the People’s Liberation Army has occupied several areas in the northern Indian region of Ladakh, turning up the heat on a long-simmering border conflict.
According to an informally implemented quota system, the office of prime minister must be occupied by a Shia (the majority religious group in Iraq), which until now has made the choice of premier conditional on Iran’s approval.
Britain won’t be invaded and occupied.
In 1990, Iraqi troops invaded and occupied Kuwait, at the time the Arab world’s most dynamic economy, depriving the country of its sovereignty.
And, of course, in 2003 a US-led coalition invaded and occupied Iraq, a decision that plunged the regional order into turmoil and continues to affect it today.
Neither government disputes the fact that Chinese soldiers have occupied territory that India considers its own.
To that end, the US should honor its pledge to reclaim heavy weapons that it previously transferred to the Kurds, and press the PYD to restore local control to the communities it occupied during the campaign against ISIS.
In particular, the Convention prohibits the occupier from moving its civilian population into the occupied territories (hence all Israeli settlements are illegal under international law).
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