"occupation" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This was an American military post, painfully un-French and lacking even a knowledge of prior Spanish occupation.
- From 1947 to 1954, the Japanese government's claim shifted from prior occupation of a terra nullius to effective occupation by "executing state intention to acquire territory".
- It had been still considering how to deal with the prior occupation and ownership of the land by Victorian Aborigines.
- The second custom, closely observed until 1925, held that Supreme Court nominees, regardless of their prior occupations, were not expected to testify before the Judiciary Committee.
- He represented the electorate of Hastings in Parliament from 1990 to 1993, when he chose not to stand for re-election and returned to his prior occupation of pharmacist.
- "We dispute any claim of prior occupation!"
- Some of his prior occupations include:
- Emperor Cheng wanted to make Feiyan the new empress, but Empress Dowager Wang complained about her low birth and prior occupation as a dance girl.
- The auxiliary police force consisted primarily individuals of police, army, and militia organizations which had been disbanded upon the prior Soviet occupation.
- The expansion and urbanisation of Hobart has destroyed much of the archaeological evidence of prior indigenous occupation, although Aboriginal middens are often still present in coastal areas.
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