occupation

He was born in a barn to penniless parents who were part of a people under occupation.

They have endured intifadas and an often cruel military occupation.

In reality, the Iraqi borders had been arbitrarily drawn and disregarded 2,000 years of tribal, sectarian, and nomadic occupation.

Tatar control—part occupation and part suzerainty over impotent, tribute-paying Russian principalities—lasted more than 200 years.

His writings usually identify an enemy, such as the U.S. government, minorities, or the chimeric Zionist Occupation Government.

At an early hour next morning the train of wagons got into motion, and the hunters went out to their usual occupation.

But, fortunately, they had scant time for repining, and there is nothing like active occupation to banish useless brooding.

Everywhere there was a sense of recent occupation, an impression of sadness and gloom.

Let the wags laugh on; but a far pleasanter occupation is to sleep until breakfast-time, or near it.

The proportion of the population engaged in gainful occupation at the present time is significant.