Sentence examples for occupies a key from inspiring English sources

First, Iraq occupies a key position in the Persian Gulf, a strategically important region of the world — a position that is all the more important because of the dangerous ambitions of Iran's rulers.

The order is considered to have arisen from the ancestors of the magnolia order (Magnoliales) and to be related to the ancestors of the buttercup order (Ranunculales); thus, it occupies a key position in the evolution of flowering plants.

Xuanxue or Neo-Daoism occupies a key place in the history of Chinese philosophy.

Myanmar occupies a key geographic position at the interface between South and South-East Asia.

It occupies a key position in the Horn of Africa between the Arab Peninsula and the African continent.

Ireland occupies a key role in this discussion because so many companies have chosen the country for their European and global headquarters, and so decisions made there have wide-ranging ramifications.

From then on Wang occupied a key position close to the top leadership – particularly Mao – and was fully involved in the Communist party's internal affairs.

In C J Sansom's superior Tudor crime novels, Cromwell is a distant, scary figure, occupying a key role in the apparatus of Henry's totalitarian state.

Powell was one of the more conservative members of the court during the 1970s and early '80s, but he came to occupy a key centrist position as Pres.

For generations that enterprise occupied a key place in college and university education everywhere, but there are signs that it is in trouble.

Because religious institutions and beliefs are intimately connected with other social institutions, those who are set apart to establish efficacious relations with the transcendental powers that are believed to control the universe, as well as human affairs and destinies, occupy a key position at the dynamic centre in the social structure.