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The main occupation of the islanders is fishing and this is where the largest tuna fishery in Sicily can be found.
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This was followed by an activist occupation of the main office of the National Board of Health and Welfare.
Khadamat-e Aetela ' at-e Dawlati, almost always known by its acronym KHAD ( or KhAD ), is the main security agency and intelligence agency of Afghanistan, and also served as the secret police during the Soviet occupation.
* Libya was also was one the main supporters of the Polisario Front in the former Spanish Sahara – a nationalist group dedicated to ending Spanish colonialism in the region, and from 1975, to combatting the Moroccan occupation of what is now known as Western Sahara.
During Japan's occupation, sugar cane became the main industry of the islands, and labor was imported from Japan and associated colonies ( especially Okinawa and Korea ).
This, combined with the harsh treatment of Guamanian Chamorros during the 31-month occupation, created a rift that would become the main reason Guamanians rejected the reunification referendum approved by the Northern Marianas in the 1960s.
" The main milestones which mark an occupation being identified as a profession are:
* April 28 – The Treaty of San Francisco goes into effect, formally ending the war between Japan and the Allies, and simultaneously ending the occupation of the four main Japanese islands.
During World War II, the city was badly affected by Allied bombings, and after German occupation in 1943, Milan became the main centre of the Italian resistance movement.
Their main occupation was cutting logwood, a dyewood for which there was a high demand in Europe.
Its main mission was democratization but part of the agenda was also the prohibition of any criticism of the Allied occupation forces.
He became president of the Association corporative des étudiants en droit, an association of law students whose main occupation was to engage in street brawls against the " Cocos " ( communists ).
Play is considered the main occupation for children.
The main feature still visible is the under-floor heating installed during the Roman occupation.
Agriculture was the main occupation, although craftwork had begun to grow in importance.
The supreme command defined the main tasks of the AK as partisan warfare against the German occupiers, recreation of armed forces underground and, near the end of the German occupation, general armed revolt until victory.
The military historian John Keegan has praised Irving for his " extraordinary ability to describe and analyse Hitler's conduct of military operations, which was his main occupation during the Second World War ".
Prior to the Civil War, cotton farming was the main occupation in Butler County.
The earliest Cherokee occupation dates from Dragging Canoe, who in 1776 separated himself and moved downriver from the main tribe to establish American Indian resistance ( see Chickamauga Wars ) to European settlement in the southeastern United States.
The area's main occupation was farming, with potato growing, dairy products and raising cattle as main sources of income.
Initially, their main occupation was animal husbandry.
Building commenced in 2005 and it is anticipated that occupation will commence late in 2006 with the main development of 10, 500 units being completed within a ten year timescale.
Four main occupation phases between the 5th century BC and the 4th century AD were found.
Up until that point, Ealing was mostly made up of open countryside and fields where, as in previous centuries, the main occupation was farming.
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Tourism provides the main income for the majority of islanders, the high season lasting from May to September.
He also speculates that it may refer to the Culdees, anchorites who may have brought Christianity to the island, or be a corruption of the Gaelic name for the main island of the group, since the islanders tended to pronounce r as l, and thus habitually referred to the island as Hilta.
Since the 1960s, the Kosraean government has become the main employer on the island, where fishing and traditional farming remain the main source of the islanders ' subsistence.
The land is highly fertile, and crofting, alongside tourism, are the main sources of employment for the islanders.
Borchgrevink visited the island in June, when the main volcanic activity had subsided, and found the mountain " perfectly quiet ", and the islanders recovered from their panic.
To pursue any education at the senior high school level or higher, the islanders must move to the main island of Taiwan.
There is a museum of boatbuilding, reflecting the islanders ' main industry during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The population numbered 18, 876 at the 2001 census and Islam is the main religion of the islanders.
Through fishing, the beach provided the main occupation for the villagers of Chiswell and the rest of the islanders.
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`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.
The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.
But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.
Steele's main business here is to arouse public opinion to the immediate danger of a Stuart Restoration.
The old ideal of the independent entrepreneur is extant -- but so is the recognition that the main chance may be in a corporate bureaucracy.
In the main stream of historical thinking is a group of scholars, H.M. Chadwick, R.H. Hodgkin, Sir Frank Stenton et al. who are in varying degrees sceptical of the native traditions of the conquest but who defend the catastrophic type of invasion suggested by them.
He had also learned to dispute extempore remarkably well, the main evidence for which of course is the presence of his name in the honors list of 1628/29.
The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.
Krim's main attack is upon the aesthetic and the publishing apparatus of American literary culture in our day.
The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main ''.
Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
It is vitally important that the new U.S. aid program should encourage all of them, since the main thrust for development must come from the less developed countries themselves.
Stated in its simplest terms, the main job of the Planning Division is to plan for the future of the State of Rhode Island.
The substantial progress being made in ballistic missile technology is rapidly shifting the main threat from manned bombers to missiles.
Their main asset is an abundance of unsaturated fatty acids, so necessary for maintaining the good health of the circulatory system.
The main requirement is to be sure the boat is numbered according to the regulations of the state in which the boat will be principally used.
The main set of bars are the `` tappets '' and one tappet is connected to each lever.
It is one of the very few, if not the only surviving bridge of its type to serve a main artery of the U.S. highway system, thus it is far more than a relic of the horse and buggy days.
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