A judge, however, can occupy a lonely perch.
He occupied a lonely office high in the Commons above the chamber, and he simply denied that there was an issue.
Current, which has occupied a lonely position on the cable dial for years, is investing in programming to become a liberal alternative to MSNBC and other cable news channels.
MARELBY AGATTÓN, who runs Colombia's Green Oxygen political movement, occupies a lonely cubicle in Bogotá surrounded by posters demanding the freeing of Ingrid Betancourt, the movement's kidnapped former presidential candidate.
STRONG POINT HAJI RAHMUDDIN II, Afghanistan — When the last American soldiers to occupy this squat, lonely outpost in southern Afghanistan pulled out this week, they left the same way earlier units had arrived: ready for a fight.
To avoid feeling or appearing to be isolated or lonely, people occupy their few precious opportunities with their heads down and ears plugged, literally.
Meanwhile, two of the last three people Maine has sent to the Senate have been women, and all three have often occupied Congress's lonely middle ground.
Until recently, the paleta, a frozen ingot of fresh fruit spiked with a little sugar, occupied the same lonely place in the hearts of Mexican New Yorkers that the Mell-O-Roll holds for native Gothamites of a certain age -- that of a Proustian delight whose appeal was compounded by its utter absence.
As a former classroom teacher I know that it can feel lonely at times to occupy your day communicating with others who are not your peers and cannot relate to your experiences and passions.
Which can be, for any true innovator, a very lonely and exposed position to occupy.
