Sentence examples for continuous occupation from inspiring English sources

From that time there was continuous occupation of stations, usually two at any given time.

The Miskito people base their claim to the land on their continuous occupation of the region and the stilted language of a Victorian-era treaty.

The city enjoyed a period of nearly 1,300 years of continuous occupation, until it was razed to the ground in 1265.

However, the continuous occupation of the site to the present day has made the search for archaeological evidence of the site's earliest history difficult.

Unlike many other occupations, Occupy Dataran is not a continuous occupation, but meets every Saturday night for a low-key "general assembly" – similar to those in London and New York – that lasts until the small hours.

Rome's surviving early medieval buildings are mostly churches, which is not surprising given its rulers; here as elsewhere, however, one must reckon with secular buildings that have not survived and, of course, with a continuous occupation and reuse of the huge array of Classical monuments.

Lastly, modern London is built on "made ground," the deposits of centuries of continuous human occupation, which have accumulated on average between 10 and 16 feet (3 and 5 metres) in the oldest urban nuclei of the City and Westminster.

Traditional historiography has customarily presented it as peopled by successive waves of invaders, but the language pattern suggests that the coastal Bulom (Sherbro), Temne, and Limba have been in continuous settled occupation for a long time, with subsequent sporadic immigration from inland by Mande-speaking peoples, including Vai, Loko, and Mende.

Cattle raising led to increased social stratification between rich and poor and established new divisions of labour between men and women; the accumulation of cattle and the continuous site occupation inherent in cereal production enabled the storage of wealth and the deployment of more organized political power.

Protesters from the nearby Makaurau Marae say the project would destroy one of the country's earliest sites of continuous Maori occupation.

The Caucasian mountains on the border between Asia and Europe reach 5,642 m at their highest point (Mt. Elbrus) and show archeological and genetic evidence of continuous human occupation since >10,000 Ybp Caciaglii et al. 2009), so provide an additional environment where humans have adapted to high altitude.