Sentence examples for occupying it from from inspiring English sources

After Abraham Lincoln's assassination, at Ford's Theater, the museum took over the space, occupying it from 1866 to 1887.

There is a different calendar; it is one of only two countries in Africa not to have been colonised (though the Italians under Mussolini occupied it from 1935-1941); and its Christian religion – which came via the Levant and was established in the fourth century AD – bears strong links to Judaism, which had got there first.

The Normans, after pillaging the town, occupied it from 834 to 936.

The Turks occupied it from 1512 except for brief intervals until 1915.

It's not all hotel though – 67 multi-million pound apartments occupy it from the second floor up.

Children of the King's Revels occupied it from 1608 to 1609, succeeded by Children of the Queen's Revels from 1609 to 1613.

Once poised on the rim of the continent, like an enemy beachhead, Wall Street has marched across the country and occupied it from coast to coast.

The location was occupied in 1626 by the Spanish, who built a fort on the island of Ho-p'ing Ho-p'ing at tHepingth of the hatbour, and then in 1642 was occupied by the Dutch, who again occupied it fromouth4 tof1668.

Kiev's government district has been sealed off for weeks to prevent protesters from occupying it.

One seat will go to the head of the central bank, but the bill specifically bars Mr. Ortiz from occupying it because of his role in the original bailout.

Barlow's justification was that he wanted to prevent Doles's Brigade, of Rodes's division, from occupying it and using it as an artillery platform against him.