Sentence examples for first occupying from inspiring English sources

The first, occupying most of the southern half of the republic, consists of the Caucasus Mountains, there at their widest.

(As if in retaliation, Abigail Adams, on first occupying the White House, decided to use the building's grandest reception room to dry the president's underwear).

This results in several problems:* First, the illegal squatting on pavements prevents tax-paying citizens from walking on them.* As pointed out by your reporter, you can see the P.D'Mello pavement quatters first occupying the pavement and then one entire traffic lane by parking their goods, their kitchen utensils and their cots on the main road.

Because the three species of Greater Antilles cichlids fell outside of this clade it suggests they did not colonize this region by first occupying Central America.

Other novels are dictated by external, formal decisions – one is told in exactly two paragraphs, the second two lines long, the first occupying the rest of the book.

The major pathway by which B. tectorum assumes dominance is by first occupying safesites within the community (often facilitated by disturbance) and expanding from those sites to a critical density and biomass, whereby conditions for large-scale wildfires are promulgated.

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.