Sentence examples for occupying something from inspiring English sources

The mood was very protesty – I feel like I definitely broke the law at some point, possibly occupying something, although often it felt like a phase rather than anything more serious.

Rawls thought that the best way to figure out what a just society would look like was to imagine the kinds of arrangement that would be agreed upon by people occupying something he called the "original position".

"When you look at the areas they're occupying, they have to deal with some critical problems like water and water purification and electric power, and they have to run in the area they're occupying something like a banking system so people can move money and buy things".

It bypasses the verbal and the intellectual and occupies something in us much deeper.

"We battle with saboteurs, camouflaged socialists, intellectual skepticism; and we say: Let's occupy something else," the statement read.

Until now, the two had been in disagreement because Ansar Dine wants to impose sharia law in the area they occupy, something the secular NMLA had been resisting.

The three of them had occupied something called a tentalow, with an outdoor shower, which Mitz had unlatched one afternoon, clutching the plastic shower basket that she and Georgette shared, with its limp washcloth mitt, shampoo and conditioner, Jean Naté splash.

Aaron Dobbs occupied something of a middle ground, saying he was "100 percent against" the B.D.S. movement but "100 percent in favor" of the referendum in order to give the greatest number of members a chance to participate in the vote.

Until recently, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida had occupied something of a sweet spot in Republican politics: a favorite of the Tea Party but also trusted by the establishment wing of the G.O.P.

If Tabby does occupy something of a saintly status in the King household, it is not just because she stood by her husband when he was young and desperate, but because she threatened to walk away, years later, when he was famous and a full-blown alcoholic with a coke habit.

But when you watch it (as I watched it) at a film festival, in a cinema of eight hundred and thirty-two seats, every one of them occupied, something strange may overtake you—a grim, communal determination to stay with these wretched characters in their hour and a half of need.