Sentence examples for occupying high from inspiring English sources

Confucius stressed that appropriate emotions are essential to correct performance of rituals: "Someone who lacks magnanimity when occupying high office, who is not respectful when performing ritual, and who remains unmoved by sorrow when overseeing mourning rites how could I bear to look upon such a person?" (Analects 3.26; Slingerland 2003, 18) Mencius also stressed the importance of ritual.

Most of them remain in power, unscathed and immune, even occupying high positions in this administration.

In 1759, the British returned and drove a token French garrison from the fort merely by occupying high ground that threatened the fort.

The best-documented cases of high pollutant accumulation in Canada are for species occupying high trophic positions, notably killer whales and harbor seals [159], [160], St. Lawrence beluga whales and harbor seals [161], [162], and polar bears [163].

Populations occupying high elevation streams experience colder incubation temperatures and longer incubation times, so earlier spawning favors earlier fry emergence in spring that coincides with favorable environmental conditions (Beacham and Murray 1987; Brannon 1987).

Marine mammals occupying high trophic levels in aquatic food webs are often contaminated with relatively high concentrations of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated dibenzo- p-dioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs), and polybrominated diphenylethers (PBDEs).

On the matter of northerness, he notes that Leeds remains the third-largest manufacturing centre outside London, a fact often forgotten amid the real story of modern Leeds: the huge growth of "financial and professional services" occupying high-rise offices that were not there in my day.

It has a rigid hierarchy, with a number of figures occupying higher positions than Morsi's had been.

Across the UN, rates of female participation are improving, with women occupying high-profile posts.

Redstarts occupying high-quality mesic habitats, such as coastal mangroves and lowland forest, are in better condition over the winter, have higher annual survival rates, depart earlier for spring migration, and have higher reproductive success the following season on the temperate breeding grounds compared to individuals occupying lower quality habitats, such as tropical dry forests [18] [21].

More importantly, they are directly correlated with functional gene sequences, occupying higher information content.