Sentence examples for occupying local from inspiring English sources

In the adjacent region of Western Equatoria, young men from the Zande ethnic group rose up last year when Dinka cattle herders, protected by the SPLA, were blamed for occupying local farmland.

The structures of the intermediate states do not change significantly with mutation and therefore occupy local minima on the energy landscape that have relatively narrow basins.

The government teamed up with local militias known as the "Mai Mai," who are known to occupy local villages, steal resources, and rape women.

Throughout the war, both British and American forces occupied local homesteads at various times, and Teaneck citizens played key roles on both sides of the conflict.

In Kamdesh, insurgents occupying the local police station and the mosque also fired into the outpost.

That depiction was a stretch even then, but today's truckers are often as Web-connected as the technophiles occupying the local Starbucks.

Hitler's forces initially succeeded in occupying the local Reichswehr and police headquarters, but Kahr and his cohorts quickly withdrew their support.

Ions form into two elongated packets, each occupying a local Y-potential well.

We envision the high performance swimmers as occupying a local optimum on a fitness landscape [ 77], but their OXPHOS system is so fine-tuned that substitutions that would allow them to cross fitness valleys and reach higher peaks could be strongly deleterious in the short term.

East Hampton storefronts once occupied by local businesses are now leased to Starbucks, Tiffany and Polo.

Instead, Hondarribia is still a place primarily for residents; most restaurants are occupied by local families and couples, not tourists.