He was appointed Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers, the leader of the occupation forces that would rule Japan.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

It ended when an allied force of American,British,French,German and Japanese soldiers reached Beijing and ended the Boxer occupation.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

During the Union occupation of Fredericksburg, thousands of escaped slaves fled through Virginia on their way North.

VOA: special.2011.04.15

It ended a 38 year occupation of the narrow strip along the Mediterranean coast in 2005.

VOA: special.2009.01.10

American occupation of the Philippines made the United States a major power in the Far East.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

In two thousand, Tony Hawk wrote a book about his life called "Hawk: Occupation: Skateboarder."

VOA: special.2009.09.11

Polk asked Congress to give him permission to end the joint occupation agreement.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

The new settlers were not satisfied with the joint occupation agreement.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Another play was "Alive from Palestine: Stories Under Occupation."

VOA: special.2009.03.11

Alexander Rondeli,the director of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies welcomed Clinton's use of the term "occupation".

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

He said the only thing holding up a prisoner swap is what he described as the "stubbornness of the Zionist occupation."

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

Those strategies include lobbying the international community, building institutions, and encouraging acts of popular, non-violent resistance against the Israeli occupation.

VOA: standard.2010.05.03

He says there should have been an election to re-establish legitimate authority, which was overthrown during the first Soviet occupation in 1940.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

The United Nations refugee agency says that as many as 60,000 Somalis, who fled during Ethiopia's occupation, have moved back to Mogadishu.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

Twal,a Jordanian who heads the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land, said the Israeli occupation must end.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Marituu works at Tallinn's Museum of the Occupation, where Nazis and Soviets are both presented as occupiers.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

President Saakashvili notes that Clinton's use of the word "occupation" is especially meaningful.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

Ukraine,Georgia and Latvia have Soviet occupation museums similar to the one in Estonia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

After Indian occupation in 1947. This is a weapon (of) every resistance.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

Some news agencies have compared the operation to a military occupation.

VOA: standard.2010.01.26

The growing strains stem largely from Ankara's increasing criticism of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory, and more recently, Ankara' canceled joint military exercises with Israel scheduled for later this month.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

The day-to-day situation for many Palestinian women living under occupation involves supporting their children while their husbands are in prison, finding housing after their homes are demolished, and navigating their way through Israeli checkpoints.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

The Kenyan-born suspect reportedly was highly involved in al-Shabab's fight against the Western-backed transitional federal government and participated actively in the insurgency against Ethiopian troops after the 2006 invasion and subsequent occupation of Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

"There are going to be a lot of young people in the government; they don't remember the war, they don't remember the occupation, they don't necessarily believe Japan needs to have a special relationship with the United States."

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

"We continue to call for Russia to abide by the August 2008 cease-fire commitment signed by President Saakashvili and President Medvedev, including ending the occupation and withdrawing Russian troops from South Ossetia and Abkhazia to their pre-conflict positions."

VOA: standard.2010.07.05

"If he does not show some progress and it just seems like we are getting deeper and deeper into an occupation and a counter-insurgency effort without any positive news for a number of months, I think he could face some real opposition,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.02