Sentence examples for occupying the square from inspiring English sources

People began occupying the square in front of the building in central Kolkata from the early morning.

The new protest comes more than six months after members of campaign group Occupy London were prevented from occupying the square in heart of the City of London.

The demonstrators, who were in the third day of occupying the square, were given 30 minutes to leave or face arrest.

Viktor Yanukovich released his statement in the early hours of Wednesday morning, saying opposition leaders "crossed a line when they called people to arms" as riot police battled with protesters occupying the square.

Left-wing radicals who have tried to hijack the greens' cause were occupying the square, draping giant banners over the Taksim monument and surrounding buildings in open defiance of the government's authority.

Gone was the tense state dinner with the Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev when Deng, preoccupied by the throngs of students then occupying the square, let a dumpling tumble from his chopsticks.

It was the political equivalent of occupying the squares".

"We've learned how to mobilise online from our counterparts of the Arab Spring and from our own experiences of occupying the squares of Spain".

But Hytner is also at pains to remind us that Timon's ruination is part of a larger crisis in capitalism and, utilising the play's Athenian background, shows angry crowds occupying the squares and streets.

Students still occupy the square.

Protesters have continued to occupy the square to press for a new constitution with democratic principles.