Meanwhile, Palestinians are the first occupied population to be placed under international sanctions.

Even towns which were associated with particular manufactures did not have more than half of their occupied populations employed in them.

He also showed respect for occupied populations and never tolerated pillaging nor violence from his men.

All the year and half of military-political activities started to pay off as the occupied population saw a glimmer of hope.

The first duty of an occupier is to establish a system of "direct administration" over the occupied population.

Despite this, the various occupied populations quickly found themselves suffering harsher and more brutal treatment than they had ever experienced under their former colonial rulers.

Couples who became involved tried to hide their relation because of these interdictions and the unfavourable mood of the occupied population.

There isn't a single democracy in the Middle East - except Israel, which in effect makes some citizens second-class and rules an occupied population.

Initially Hitler encouraged mass reprisals as a means to reduce the occupied population and provide greater "Lebensraum" for Germany.

They were also used to create informational papers, to instruct occupied populations, and also soldiers about the countries they occupied.

We showed them in 1956 that the more brutal and humiliating the occupation becomes, the more desperate and willing the occupied population becomes to resist it.

By 1939 4 million manual workers and another 4 million or so non-manual workers were receiving annual holiday pay, going on for half of the total occupied population.

In fact, there is no parity between Israel and the Palestinian Authority: one is the government of a powerful state, the other, the relatively powerless representative of an occupied population.

Consequently, to handle an occupied population, the religions of the Middle Ages exercised an absolute repression of all the old fertility rituals, since they required and recreated the memory of the old codexes.

Many of his Bengali patriotic songs were regularly played on the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, the clandestine radio station broadcast to revolutionaries and occupied population during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

In this case the court ruled that the existing and planned route failed the principle of "proportionality" in both Israeli and international law: that harm caused to an "occupied population must be in proportion to the security benefits".

The agricultural industry had ceased to be the greatest employer; in 1914 about 43 per cent of the occupied population was working in agriculture in France, 35 per cent in Germany, 22 per cent in Belgium and only 8 per cent in Great Britain.

Having served with the Israeli Army in Gaza during the first intifada, I and many of my colleagues quickly came to the conclusion that the occupation had to end - not necessarily because of thedamage to the occupied population but because of the harm to the morals and morale of the occupiers.