Sentence examples for occupying ground from inspiring English sources

But might the Germans, French and Spanish be right in occupying ground and promoting development rather than bring-it-on combats with the Taliban?

In 2006, he launched a petition to 36,500 mayors in France, demanding that local authorities be given the power to order police to remove people illegally occupying ground.

This will all but guarantee that the Republican 2016 presidential candidates will be occupying ground to the right of where Romney stood in 2012.

Herein, coexistence mechanisms in the whole mosquito community, from species occupying ground waters to other that occupy natural containers, are considered at micro-habitat, habitat and landscape scales.

A memorial for the World Trade Center may not need to occupy ground.

The Palestinian director Kamal Aljafari's elliptical film "Port of Memory" occupies ground somewhere between documentary and fiction.

It occupies ground prepared by the excellent exhibitions of classic Chinese painting that Maxwell K. Hearn, a longtime curator at the Met and now head of its department of Asian art, has been staging there for more than three decades.

That is, in part, because air power by definition never occupies ground.

Both occupy grounds that show off Connecticut's civilized and soothing flora at its best.

The Palace occupies ground-floor quarters in The Sovereign, over on 59th in the shadow of the Queensboro Bridge.

What to Do The Caroline brought in national chain restaurants: Olive Garden and Outback Steakhouse occupy ground-floor berths there.