Sentence examples for earlier occupied from inspiring English sources

At one moment Ms. Shick stood over Mr. Greenberg like a schoolteacher, as he folded his long body onto a little stool and intently scanned a book (Ms. Paz had earlier occupied the stool to juice an orange).

In Udhaim, 90 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Asaib and police fought militants who earlier occupied the local municipal building, an official there told Reuters, and they directed mortar fire at the government protection force of the Baiji oil refinery, Iraq's largest.

The luckier ones, who arrived early, occupy rooms.

The United Federation of Teachers, which formally backed an earlier Occupy Wall Street march, did not officially throw its support behind the event.

Faced with the dilemma of wanting to continue their public demonstration against economic inequality, tuition hikes and a highly-reported incident of police brutality during an earlier Occupy Cal protest, the famously creative students of California's premiere public university decided to take an unorthodox approach.

The chamber — an upgrade of an earlier model — occupied a corner of Building 326, which also housed the Officers' Club.

Suddenly, the waiter who a couple of minutes earlier was occupied taking an order at another table, opened the door and popped outside in the February chill.

The early farmers occupied the lands at the confluence of the Huang, Wei, and Fen rivers, the cradle of Chinese civilization.

Almost invariably, after I have hustled aboard early and occupied one half of a vacant double seat in the usually crowded quiet car, the empty place next to me will remain empty for the entire trip.

Having staked out this ground early and occupied it for so long, London would be hard to dislodge.All this suggests that finance is not quite as mobile as some of its practitioners like to pretend.

Fortunately, unlike most other caves in Israel, Manot was apparently continuously wet during the time that early humans occupied it, and so the skull was covered with a thin layer of calcite (calcium carbonate, which is also a major component of stalactites and stalagmites).