The peasants were kept down ruthlessly by the occupying power.
Because the USB port provides power to the peripherals, it removes the power lines and space-occupying power transformers.
Failure or refusal to cooperate, especially nonviolent civil disobedience against a government or an occupying power.
In protest, Hamid Karzai, the President, threatened to consider NATO as "an occupying power" if such incidents continue, though it was unclear what that would entail.
Belligerent occupation in a foreign war, being based upon the possession of enemy territory, necessarily implies that the sovereignty of the occupied territory is not vested in the occupying power.
