Sentence examples for failed to occupy from inspiring English sources

Seeing that Dorchester Heights, just south of Boston, commanded the city and harbour and that Howe had unaccountably failed to occupy it, he seized it on the night of March 4, 1776, placing his Ticonderoga guns in position.

The bitterly polarised view of the two main parties that emerged from this interrogation showed how utterly he, as well as Mr Miliband, has failed to occupy the moderate centre ground.

If the landlord proves that, she said, the only way the tenant could win would be if the landlord or his immediate family failed to occupy the apartment for at least three years after the tenant left.

The cathedral has had to close the restaurant and the gift shop and visitor numbers have fallen significantly since the camp was set up on Saturday, after the protesters tried and failed to occupy Paternoster Square, home of the London Stock Exchange.

Initially there was a scuffle or two, as the protesters failed to occupy the bit of ground they were supposed to be occupying.

It also coincided with the end of Operation Coast-91, in which the Yugoslav forces failed to occupy the coastline in an attempt to cut off Dalmatia's access to the rest of Croatia.

The kiss is only imagined, but that doesn't mean it fails to occupy the space between them.

Species may additionally fail to occupy locations with suitable conditions owing to limited dispersal ability.

The following summer (208 BC) the combined fleet of thirty-five Pergandne and twenty-five Roman ships failed to take Lemnos, but occupied and plundered the countryside of the island of Peparethos (Skopelos), both Macedonian possessions.

However, he failed to take elementary precautions, continuing to occupy a headquarters (the house of a settler named Wells) some 400 yards from the fort.

Although Charlemagne failed to take Zaragoza (Saraqusṭah) in 778, his troops captured Barcelona in 801 and occupied Catalonia.