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End of the war would be when the Russian occupation troops leave Ukrainian territory and we close the uncontrolled part of the Russian-Ukrainian border.
Petro Poroshenko
War
Ukrainian
Border
Would
Would-Be
Russian
Troops
Part
Uncontrolled
Occupation
Territory
Leave
End
Close
Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.
Ralph Allen
Good
Will
Painting
Stars
Adequate
Rapidly
More
Individualist
Policy
Occupation
Without
Always
Cultural
Shooting
Stop
Forgotten
Help
Who
Profitable
Israeli ingenuity was never more evident than in the Ayalon bullet factory built during the British occupation of Palestine. It was constructed underneath an urban kibbutz. The workers had a bakery and laundry which provided constant clatter to disguise the work carried on below ground.
Richard Edelman
Work
Disguise
Evident
Carried
Laundry
Constant
More
Constructed
Factory
Never
Had
Bakery
Underneath
Occupation
Built
Israeli
Bullet
Provided
Than
Which
Urban
Ingenuity
Workers
Ground
Palestine
Below
British
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
Richard Powers
Time
Great
Pleasures
Out
Writer
Like
Occupation
Am
Doing
Rewards
Who
Each
Each Time
Reinvent
I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved occupation, so he didn't have to enlist. My mother was a housewife. She worked in a bank before marrying my father.
Robert Powell
Mother
Engineer
Father
Before
Marrying
Born
He
Days
She
Occupation
Housewife
Five
Bank
Which
Worked
Mechanical
Reserved
Enlist
If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?
Roger Ebert
Life
Love
You
Enough
Spend
Find
Entire
Entire Life
Occupation
Working
Your
Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.
Ruth First
Law
Area
Write
Study
Policy
Occupation
Began
African
Apartheid
Aside
Workings
Reserves
Early
Set
Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.
Sander Levin
Women
Men
Every
Earn
Nursing
Jobs
Almost
Like
Occupation
Female
Traditional
Than
Average
Teaching
Less
Including
My chosen occupation isn't necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.
Sarah Gadon
See
Occupation
Movie
Movie Star
Star
Chosen
Actor
Necessarily
What kind of people will these ghettos of Palestinians produce? What form of morality, national consciousness and hope will people be left with after so many years of stifling occupation and a sense of hopelessness?
Sayed Kashua
Hope
People
Will
National
Sense
Kind
Hopelessness
Morality
Occupation
Stifling
Years
Left
So Many Years
Form
After
Produce
Many
Palestinians
Consciousness
The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush.
Segolene Royal
World
Only
Since
Safer
Occupation
Iraq
Bush
Who
Thinks
I am passionately invested in the survival of Israel and everything Israel represents. But I am extremely critical of much of its policy. I believe that the occupation must end. And if it doesn't, it will end Israel. I'm not in favor of settlements.
Simon Schama
Survival
Will
Believe
Settlements
Everything
Extremely
Favor
Critical
Must
Invested
Policy
Occupation
Am
Israel
Passionately
End
Represents
Much
From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.
Stephane Hessel
Mistakes
Big
Settlement
Occupation
Territories
Making
Israeli
Continue
Governments
Two
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.
Terry Eagleton
Sometimes
Political
Crimes
Secure
Has-Been
Brought
Invasion
Only
Thrust
Unconscious
Feel
Safely
Occupation
Been
Denying
Sovereignty
Nations
Being
Them
Original
Usurpation
Flourish
Extermination
When the Romans in the last age of the republic came into immediate contact with Iran as a consequence of the occupation of Syria, they found in existence the Persian empire regenerated by the Parthians.
Theodor Mommsen
Age
Immediate
Syria
Contact
Empire
Occupation
Came
Iran
Existence
Persian
Romans
Republic
Found
Last
Consequence
Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.
Tim Russert
Needs
Better
Country
Looking
Down
Deficits
High
Would
Cost
Smaller
Occupation
Been
Iraq
Tax
Order
Tax Cuts
Cuts
Keep
One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the job over to the United Nations.
Timothy Noah
Job
Mysteries
Nation
United Nations
Over
Occupation
Nonetheless
Iraq
America
Nations
Refuses
Enduring
Little
Turn
Peacekeeping
United
Why
I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation.
Walter Cronkite
Service
Man
Old
Press
Pretty
Write
Part
Occupation
Quickly
Fast
Necessity
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper
Mind
Rest
Distressed
Absence
Occupation
Quite
Vacant
Occupation - pressing occupation that will not be said nay - is a sovereign remedy for grief.
William Godwin
Grief
Will
Pressing
Remedy
Occupation
Said
Sovereign
Nay
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
William James
Life
Knowledge
One Thing
About
Through
Another
Occupation
Passing
Effective
Currents
Being
Dynamic
Place
Your
Thing
When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.
William Morris Hunt
Work
Time
Respect
People
Must
He
Employing
Occupation
Leaves
Loses
His
Artist
Artists
Legitimate
Them
Amuse
Amused
For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.
Winona Ryder
Time
People
Long
Long Time
Every
Would
Would-Be
Shallow
Almost
Like
Occupation
Felt
Move
Being
Ashamed
Actress
Watching
Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation.
Wole Soyinka
Politics
Believe
Occupation
Full-Time
What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
Zendaya
Think
She
Occupation
Been
Done
Barbie
Create
We declared jihad against the U.S. government because the U.S. government is unjust, criminal and tyrannical. It has committed acts that are extremely unjust, hideous and criminal, whether directly or through its support of the Israeli occupation.
Osama bin Laden
Government
Unjust
Jihad
Criminal
Tyrannical
Extremely
Hideous
Directly
Through
Support
Occupation
Because
Israeli
Committed
Whether
Against
Acts
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