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occupier

ok yuh pahy er

  • n  someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there
  • n  a member of a military force who is residing in a conquered foreign country

  • Since I was an occupier, an alert MP could have had me sent back to Ohio for good.
  • Bikila's triumph was all the more stunning because it happened in the capital of Ethiopia's former military occupier.
  • Elsewhere, however, the occupier's presumption of virtue is seldom affirmed by the occupied.
Quotes

  • Muqtada al-Sadr in AFP
    I advise Allawi and Maliki not to allow the occupier to intervene,said Sadr, whose militia, the Mahdi Army, has repeatedly clashed with US forces since the invasion.
  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in International Herald Tribune
    God willing, in the near future we will witness the destruction of the corrupt occupier regime,Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by the state-run news agency, IRNA.

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