9 sentences with 'occupation'
Example sentences and phrases with the word occupation and other words derived from it.
• « By 338 BC, Greece was no longer the collection of independent city-states it had been for over a thousand years; it was now united under an invader from the north. The Greeks deeply resented this occupation. »
• « Thus, what began as an invasion and occupation of Roman territory evolved over time into the first version of the kingdom of France. »
• « The financial costs of the invasion and occupation were enormous, and over the next seven years nearly 200,000 French soldiers lost their lives in Spain. »
• « Even as Napoleon envisaged the expansion of his empire, most of his best soldiers were trapped in Spain. Napoleon came to refer to the occupation as his "Spanish ulcer", a wound in his empire that would not stop bleeding. »
• « In turn, they experienced the West first-hand when Russian armies fought against Napoleon's forces and then during the occupation of France. There, the sheer backwardness of Russia contrasted with the dynamism and vitality they discovered in French society (especially in Paris itself). »
• « In many ways, unification had amounted to the occupation of the rest of the country by the north. It would be many years before the new Italian state began to serve the needs and interests of the majority of its citizens. »
• « Significantly, however, Bismarck persuaded the Prussian king not to order a march on Vienna and the occupation of Austria itself; Bismarck's aim had been to eliminate Austria from contention as a potential ruling power in Germany, not to attempt to conquer and control it. »
• « Klimt's paintings were all beautiful and skilfully executed, but also dark and disturbing (the originals were destroyed by the Nazis during their occupation of Austria - modernism was considered 'degenerate art' by the Nazi party). »
• « Thus, the war experience of civilians in countries that were in or near combat often revolved around terror and hardship. All, including those spared from bombing or foreign occupation, faced food and supply shortages that worsened over time. »