Sentence examples for first occupy from inspiring English sources

Its chairman therefore followed Mao's advice for fighting a guerrilla war against well-entrenched incumbents: first occupy the countryside, before encircling the cities.

By July 1941 it knew that Japan hoped to end the undeclared war in China and that Japan was preparing for a southward advance toward British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, planning to first occupy southern Indochina and Thailand, even at the risk of war with Britain and the United States.

When did humans first occupy the Americas?

MST activists have used this legal opening to first occupy the land, and then fight for legal recognition to own it.

To achieve this objective, the Canadian Corps executed an operation designed to first occupy the high ground at Hill 70 quickly and then establish defensive positions from which combined small arms and artillery fire, some of which used the technique of predicted fire for the first time, could be used to repel German counterattacks and inflict as many casualties as possible.

Stat3 will then first occupy cofactors that promote self-renewal and the excess Stat3 then starts to bind to a different set of cofactors that induce differentiation.

The Carthaginians, arriving first, occupied Messana and effected a reconciliation with Hieron.

They first occupied the building on Tuesday, he said, and informed NATO of their presence.

She died in the same fourth-floor apartment the couple had first occupied 55 years before.

It was first occupied by Arnold Falk, whose Water Street company imported Sumatran tobacco.

It first occupied 10,000 square feet and quickly doubled its space.