Sentence examples for occupy seats from inspiring English sources

Earlier this year in its first attempt to win and occupy seats in the Republic of Ireland parliament, Sinn Fein got only 1.9percentt of the vote in a country to which Northern Ireland's Roman Catholic minority looks for support.

But in an unusually bitter cultural contretemps, Clinton loyalists and the Bush White House are fighting over who should occupy seats on the center's socially and politically influential board of trustees.

And six women occupy seats at the horseshoe table of the security council – representing Argentina, Jordan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Nigeria and the US – the best figure yet for the organisation's most important decision-making body, and double the number in 2010.

The election will also allow voters to choose individual candidates as part of an "open list," as opposed to the closed-list ballot in which voters pick political parties, who in turn choose people to occupy seats in Parliament.

After wrangling that saw smaller groups at the gathering accusing larger ones of hijacking the meeting, it ended by selecting, without voting, the 81 delegates who will occupy seats on the new body that Iraq's provisional constitution had set aside for election.

Additionally, growth-equity investors tend to be much more hands-on and often occupy seats on the boards of their portfolio companies.

The best organised take turns occupying seats.

Fifteen occupied seats in a conference room built to accommodate fifty.

The girls will be occupying seats that would have gone to boys.

Union members occupied seats in the reserved part of court, while the gallery was also crowded with ardent Suffragists.

Occupying seats reserved for special guests, they saw the justices announce several decisions and hear an oral argument.