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  • adjective Following an invasion

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post- +‎ invasion

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Examples

  • But behind the Obama administration's optimism on security despite occasional spectacular attacks, violence levels have remained at postinvasion lows and their repeated insistence that the religious and secular parties will find a compromise, U.S. officials remain fixated on one thing: persuading Iraqi politicians to avoid a Shiite-only solution.

    Biden Dips Into Iraqi Politics 2010

  • The mission Rumsfeld gave to Lt.Gen. Jay Garner — the first postinvasion civilian administrator in Iraq — was to cobble together some provisional Iraqi government.

    McNamara, Rumsfeld and the Fog of War 2009

  • The government cites a postinvasion Security Council resolution on the reconstruction of Iraq to assert that Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and his troops serve in an international army that "is legally distinct from the U.S. military."

    U.S. Prisoners Fight Transfer 2008

  • I wanted to find out if any movies were made in the city during the postinvasion turmoil.

    Hunting Down Culture in Baghdad 2008

  • Not surprising perhaps, since reports by experts blaming the U.S. for the postinvasion destruction of Iraq's heritage have been regular fixtures of the news.

    So Much for the 'Looted Sites' 2008

  • Molecular studies may also prove helpful in the postinvasion control of aquatic introduction.

    Aquatic invasive species 2008

  • Average oil exports in November came in just shy of two million barrels a day, a postinvasion record.

    Iraqi Oil Is Easing Supply Strain 2007

  • Government and state-sector jobs, the largest share of employment in Iraq, would be distributed to all three communities, which would entail a reversal of the postinvasion purges that swept up, for example, schoolteachers who happened to be members of the Baath Party.

    Rethinking Iraq: The Way Forward 2007

  • "The finding amounted to the starkest portrayal yet of a vast gap between the Bush administration's prewar assertions about Iraqi weapons and what a 15-month postinvasion inquiry by American investigators has concluded were the facts on the ground."

    10/06/2004 2004

  • In practice, however, many of those opportunities were squandered because of the lack of planning for the postinvasion period.

    State of War James Risen 2006

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