Sentence examples for occupied the ground from inspiring English sources

The mob had also spared Egy Lab, a medical-testing company that occupied the ground floor.

At the time Citibank occupied the ground floor and two upper levels on a lease with rent well below market.

The Romance lingerie shop incongruously occupied the ground floor, while on the streets outside many women wore head scarves.

It is an ethnic enclave, held by those who occupied the ground when the cease-fire was reached in 1993.

They occupied the ground floor of a labor union building — they had wanted to take over the local employment office, but it was burned down during the uprising.

Her mother stayed behind, though, on the second floor of the house, even while Syrian fighters occupied the ground floor beneath her.

The septuagenarian dental technician who occupied the ground-floor workshop here for decades has already been evicted.

Fans smashed car windows in the players' parking lot and occupied the grounds for twenty-four hours.

The street fighting escalated a confrontation between the government and protesters who had occupied the grounds of the prime minister's office for a week.

Protesters demanding his ouster have occupied the grounds of his office since Aug. 26 and say they will not leave until he resigns.

On 16 May, tens of thousands of university students demanding Suharto's resignation, occupied the grounds and roof of the parliament building.