Sentence examples for been able to occupy from inspiring English sources

Because of who my father is, I've been able to occupy some seats I never expected to sit in.

The 2015 Barcelona City Council election is one of the first cases in which one of these movements has been able to "occupy" the public institutions by building Barcelona en Comú (BeC), a political party that won the elections.

At the time of the mid-Holocene (~6 Ka) the two species would have been able to occupy much of their current range, but the predicted suitability maps differ from the current situation.

On the advice of Alcibiades, the Spartans had fortified Decelea (413) and, as a result, were able to occupy Attica.

The British were able to occupy the capital, Pretoria, in June 1900, and in September they formally annexed the Transvaal.

"Our efforts from the air clearly are to assist those forces on the ground in being able to occupy more ground," Mr. Rumsfeld said.

We did not have any army inside the city, only police and security forcesm which is why they were able to occupy the city.

No doubt, given its sheer size, incumbency and the unchanging weakness of regulators, Tesco will be able to occupy any emerging retail formats and fashions.

Sardinia and Corsica were both assigned to him in compensation for Sicily, but he was able to occupy Sardinia only (1324).

After the birth of the Second Coalition against France (March 1799), Austrian and Russian troops were able to occupy the Cisalpine Republic and to reach Turin in less than two months.

Following the fall of Valencia, the Almoravids were unopposed, and in 1110, under the leadership of ʿAlī ibn Yūsuf (1106 43), they were able to occupy Zaragoza.