But that claim was acknowledged to be subject to the right of the Indians to occupy it as long as they thought proper, and neither the English nor colonial Governments claimed or exercised any dominion over the tribe or nation by whom it was occupied, nor claimed the right to the possession of the territory, until the tribe or nation consented to cede it.
It will become clear that our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and men will not refrain from thinking that our maximum hope is to goad China into a war so that we may bomb her nuclear installations.
"They came into the country and occupied it as fast as they could, thank God".
The beach, the hill and a 59-room mansion that occupies it, as well as nearby marshland and islands, form the Crane Estate, land placed in trust by the family whose fortune traces back to Richard T. Crane Sr., the 19th-century Chicago industrialist.
She says, of her "handsome geek" and his sad, untimely death: You sort of get only one shot this way (better be good) and it's effective to think of Parsons' influence and death as fertilizing a tradition rather than occupying it as one of its majors stars.
Though my parents had bought the house, they occupied it as if they were still tenants, touching up scuff marks with leftover paint and reluctant to put holes in the walls, and every afternoon when the sun shone through the living-room window my mother closed the blinds so that our new furniture would not fade.
(Brantley) Off Broadway ★ 'ARISTOCRATS' A first-rate revival of Brian Friel's elegiac play about the decline of Ballybeg Hall and the family of Irish Catholic aristocracy that occupied it, as a clan gathering for a wedding turns into a wake for a way of life that might not even have existed (2 00).
The former Melania Knauss's route to the White House — however infrequently she chooses to occupy it — is as unlikely as her husband's ascension to the Presidency.
The coming war -- which is intended to conquer an Arab country and to occupy it for as long as it takes to reshape it to American satisfaction -- is viewed here as a potential catastrophe, not just for America's friends but for America itself.
The war, he said, followed the least aggressive of three contemplated routes — conquer Gaza and occupy it again as was done in the West Bank in 2002, retake Hamas's weapons supply routes and hold them to dry out the organization's arsenal, or attack the Hamas military and state infrastructure and leave.
He said he thought they were in Haiti to "occupy" it, and, much as Fidel Castro recently said, to extend their "hegemonic control".
