Sentence examples for occupied from inspiring English sources

Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents – young and old, rich and poor – have peacefully occupied major thoroughfares across the city, shuttering businesses and bringing traffic to a halt.

While some presidents, including those who occupied the White House for a full eight years, have struggled to be remembered at all 50 years after their deaths, Kennedy continues to loom large.

"I have occupied myself in other ways," said Klein.

UN security council resolution 242, adopted in November 1967, called for the withdrawal of Israel's armed forces "from territories occupied in the recent conflict" and recognition of the right for all to live in peace "within secure and recognised boundaries free from threats or acts of force".

It was the rotting Ottoman remains that the British occupied (a big eye on the oil) and started modernising (that Blairish word) after the first world war, with largely unsuccessful results that culminated in Saddam Hussein, from a pro-Nazi clan in Tikrit, a city now occupied by Isis.

Evans' 53 occupied just 30 balls and contained four mighty sixes.

Bombs planted by rebels exploded at a school building occupied by security forces and pro-government militias in Damascus, activists and rebels said.

All these buildings will presumably have to be evacuated of their staff and then occupied by Garda officers in order to secure them.

You might initially assume it would be occupied by Danny Alexander, the sensationally overpromoted former press officer for the Cairngorms National Park, whose role appears to be to spout unintelligible cobblers with bewildering enthusiasm.

They had been called by the landlord of the property after other tenants raised concerns about a nasty smell coming from a room that used to be occupied by the factory worker.

In one block managed by Wetherell almost half of the 16 flats are occupied by students.