Sentence examples for remains occupied from inspiring English sources

Despite Israel's 2005 "disengagement" from Gaza, the territory remains occupied.

Mr Gardiner says it is in the investors' interests for tenant to feel fairly treated so the property remains occupied.

Barry Salwen Wilmington, N.C., April 5, 2009 • To the Editor: The charge that Gaza "remains occupied" rings hollow when Israel evacuated all Israelis, living and dead, from Gaza in 2005.

To this date, the UNICEF compound remains occupied by militiamen and inaccessible to UNICEF staff.

Of course, the West Bank remains occupied by Israel.

The executive chair behind the imposing hardwood desk remains occupied by a dead man.

Western Sahara remains an occupied territory only because Morocco has refused to abide by a series of UN Security Council resolutions calling on the kingdom to end their occupation and recognize the right of the people of that territory to self-determination.

But even this may not be enough to kick-start the economy as long as the government remains pre-occupied by the careful rituals of Japanese politics.

It was the rotting Ottoman remains that the British occupied (a big eye on the oil) and started modernising (that Blairish word) after the first world war, with largely unsuccessful results that culminated in Saddam Hussein, from a pro-Nazi clan in Tikrit, a city now occupied by Isis.

More importantly, extending PayPal services would resolve the current discriminatory situation whereby PayPal's payment portal can be accessed freely by Israeli settlers living illegally (per international humanitarian law) in the West Bank while it remains unavailable to the occupied Palestinian population.

Consequently, as the LDL input rate increases (k L ), the number of occupied pits remains constant whereas the rate of increase in the concentration of the extracellular LDL increases linearly with k L and the rate at which empty pits decrease over time diminishes.