#occupying

The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#conditions #economy #essential #exist #german

I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#am #assure #being #crisis #excellency

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#about #body #gills #made #man

We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#chaos #cuba #finally #free #go

I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991. ↗

— Jon Lee Anderson

#had #i #occupying #power #right

We will liberate our country from the occupying forces and put an end to relations between Russia and the Chechen State, no matter how difficult the task may be. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#chechen #country #difficult #end #forces