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- noun Plural form of
occupier .
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Examples
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Afghans of all kinds are mad as hell, both at the insurgents and all the foreign troops, which they call the occupiers, who behave worse than the Red Army in the 1980s.
Afghanistan Kenneth Libby 2009
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Afghans of all kinds are mad as hell, both at the insurgents and all the foreign troops, which they call the occupiers, who behave worse than the Red Army in the 1980s.
Archive 2009-09-01 Jim Horn 2009
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We don't want to be long-term occupiers of Afghanistan or Iraq, which we are not going to be, or other countries in the world.
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Whether or not we think we are NOT occupiers is irrelevant.
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In the former homelands, ownership of the vast bulk of the land vested in the state, rather than with the long-term occupiers of this land.
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Simplifying the system is likely to take place in close co-ordination with the tenure reform process and to be part of the process of ensuring that long-term occupiers of land are able to have full recognition for the land rights they exercise.
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If a United Nations resolution defines Palestine as within the 1967 lines, that means 500,000 Israelis will be defined as occupiers in another country.
NYT > Home Page By ETHAN BRONNER 2011
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If a United Nations resolution defines Palestine as within the 1967 lines, that means 500,000 Israelis will be defined as occupiers in another country.
NYT > Home Page By ETHAN BRONNER 2011
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If a United Nations resolution defines Palestine as within the 1967 lines, that means 500,000 Israelis will be defined as occupiers in another country.
NYT > Global Home By ETHAN BRONNER 2011
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"Landlords are adopting more reasonable asking rents, although in the immediate term occupiers will still face rentals that are at all-time highs," the report added.
TODAYonline 2008
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