Sentence examples for occupy major from inspiring English sources

"The general trend is that the government wants state-owned companies to occupy major positions in this field".

It is to Pitti Immagine that retailers allocated a major proportion of their budgets for acquiring the clothes that will ultimately occupy major real estate in stores: that is, the sportswear that is the backbone of the trade.

More than 30 groups across the country are expected to occupy major high street banks, turning them into mock hospitals and setting up "operating theatres" inside to draw attention to the banks' role in creating the deficit.

Demonstrators have occupied major junctions in Bangkok and forced government ministries to shut down and work elsewhere.

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.

The protesters occupied major roads with sit-in camps that remained mostly peaceful until Friday, when gangs of men assaulted two camps.

But when the Russian Army not only ejected the Georgians from South Ossetia but moved further into Georgia, occupied major cities and destroyed infrastructure, the safety of the Ossetians began to look like little more than a pretext.

In reality, the US is fast becoming more and more like so many countries where a rich, cosmopolitan elite occupies major cities with a vast hinterland of people struggling to make ends meet.

Hypertrophied LH cell in pars distalis of bat during late pregnancy shows well developed rough endoplasmic reticulum occupies major part of cytoplasm.

Coup soldiers occupying major bridges in Istanbul surrendered to forces loyal to Erdogan, while the government detained thousands of troops implicated in the attempted takeover.

It is clear that alpine populations are subdivided north to south, with unique lineages occupying major drainage basins.