Sentence examples for he occupied for from inspiring English sources

Khan's party won a single seat, which he occupied for five years, before resigning.

Lyndon B. Johnson's secretary of defense, a post that he occupied for less than a year.

Michael J. Morell, who served as Petraeus's deputy at the CIA, will serve as interim director, a position he occupied for several months before Petraeus was sworn in.

By this week, Ed Ruscha will have left the studio in Venice, California, that he occupied for the past twenty-six years, a nine-thousand-square-foot former Coors-beer warehouse on Electric Avenue, where the railroad used to run.

In 1877 he was appointed at the University of Leiden as professor of the history of religions, a chair that was especially created for him and that he occupied for 24 years.

In a matter of minutes, Buckley, a long-term associate of INM's 29.9% shareholder Denis O'Brien, had stepped down from the chairman's role he occupied for five-and-a-half years.

It is unlikely that he will bat there this time, with five more likely, the position he occupies for Yorkshire, so that Eoin Morgan can drop down one place to six.

Onstage, the first performer found himself standing in a familiar position, one he had occupied for years when he was a no-name would-be rapper from 79th Street on the South Side.

After the crowd has spent time milling about and then sitting, a willowy fellow named Geoff Sobelle (not that he gives a character's name) starts talking, initially discussing objects he picks out near the chair he's occupied for a few minutes.

Mr. Berezovsky said earlier this week that he had to stay at a hotel after he was told to leave the country house he has occupied for several years.

He eventually expanded to space on Avenue A near Ninth Street, and in the late 50's, he moved again, this time to the quarters he has occupied for half a century.