#occupation

It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#been #british #had #hold #mile

The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

#citizens #freeing #illusion #nation #occupation

The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels. ↗

— Kathleen Kenyon

#behind #clear #contents #derived #earlier

That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State. ↗

— Ali A. Saleh

#achieved #capital #establish #international #israeli

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#being #human #human being #must #nuisance

The situation in the West Bank and Gaza involves a military occupation amid urban guerrilla warfare, analogous to the British security measures in Northern Island, that hopefully will end with a cease-fire. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#analogous #bank #british #cease-fire #end

A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#good #jobs #nationals #occupations #proportion

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them. ↗

— August Strindberg

#expect #fellow #fellow men #men #occupation

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#any #been #busy #costume #culture

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#anxiety #apprehension #endless #forever #may