Sentence examples for as they occupied from inspiring English sources

"Tick tock, tick tock," chanted thousands as they occupied the broad avenues of central Madrid, counting down to a year packed with municipal, regional and general elections.

While others took out their cameras only after much of the city had been razed after May 1871, this deaf-mute who had begun his career as a daguerreotypist made group portraits of the armed men as they occupied the streets and public buildings.

At the same time, these households had their water sources spread over long distances as they occupied the most remote areas that could suitably be used for extensive grazing.

It is noteworthy to mention here that the increase in the initial concentration of sorbate ions led to the corresponding increase in their uptakes, as they occupied the functional moieties on the surface of TISW.

Migration is also a population-level phenomenon, as with the migration routes followed by plants as they occupied northern post-glacial environments.

Sinop therefore remained at Sevastopol for the duration of the Russian Civil War, being captured by both sides as they occupied the city in turn, but was then abandoned by Wrangel's fleet when it evacuated the Crimea in 1920.

The Zionists and their people will not enjoy quiet with security as long as they occupy our lands".

It provides a line of credit that is not subject to the F.H.A. limit, from which consumers can borrow for as long as they occupy their home.

Generally speaking, he said, the Martin Act provides that nonpurchasing rent-regulated tenants are entitled to keep their regulated status for as long as they occupy their apartments.

Israelis are diverted from the simple fact, proven so often since the war of 1967, that they are not going to enjoy permanent peace so long as they occupy the West Bank and besiege Gaza.

As Mussai notes, there "are several intertwining narratives – colonial, cultural and personal – embedded in these images, but what is often startling is how confident and self-contained many of the sitters are as they occupy the frame".