Sentence examples for past occupying from inspiring English sources

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Both go on literal journeys and replay scenes from their youth, while themselves still looking their current age: rather like looking through a rear-view mirror at the past occupying the back seat.

Often we hold onto our grudges unwillingly, while wishing we could drop them and live freshly in the present, without the injustices of the past occupying so much psychic space.

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Which side of the "roped-off area" that divides observer from observed does a writer, remembering her past, occupy?

This is a woman consumed by memory for whom the past occupies an ever-shifting spectrum of pleasure and pain, and it's not just Ms. Scott Thomas's long-term residency in France that renders her startlingly alert to the play's Proustian affect.

He has "an infantile and divided personality" and lives in a mansion whose past occupies the present.

Mr. Brewer, 34, originally of Florida, now of Hamilton Heights, had already been arrested once for taking part in a past Occupy Wall Street demonstration in New York City, the police said.

As Stalin famously put it in 1945: "This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system.

Such concessions to recalcitrants have borne little fruit in the past and occupy airtime and column inches in which the Tories could be talking about the economy.The second method is more convincing.

"This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system," he explained privately to a group of Communist officials when the Red Army was bearing down on Berlin.

Thus, the place of justification has, in the past, been occupied by these prescriptions in accordance with social roles.

Many Catholics see the marches as triumphalist and sectarian with some traditional Orange routes passing through or past areas occupied mainly by Catholics and nationalists.

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