Sentence examples for series of occupations from inspiring English sources

Greece has weathered a long series of occupations and wars, as well as waves of emigration or migration within the country toward the cities.

Hundreds of students have joined the LSE occupation, since it began on 18 March, which is one of a series of occupations at London universities.

Anti-cuts campaigners say they will target the "architects of austerity" this weekend in a series of occupations and protests that aim to highlight opposition to the government's policies.

It's well worth a day's visit seeing what the Romans built there after their subjugation of the Illyrians -- the first in a series of occupations by Byzantines, Slavs, Celts, Venetians, Austro-Hungarians, the French, Italians, Germans and the Allies, among others, before Istria was awarded to Yugoslavia in 1947.

If you answered, "I don't know," then the adult who asked the question most likely responded by listing a series of occupations and asking you to consider them.

She became a poet after a series of occupations as a young adult, including as a cast member of a European tour of Porgy and Bess, and a performer of calypso music in nightclubs in the 1950s.

Born on the Upper East Side of New York, she had stumbled into the publishing business after short stints in a series of other occupations -- selling Oldsmobiles, writing for Dr. Joyce Brothers's television show, working for a film production company and briefly tending bar on the island of St. Thomas.

However, in addition to occupations that are strongly characterised by male or female employees, there is a series of service occupations, particularly in the commercial field, in which the ratio of men and women is more balanced.

Occupy Central, the group which started the series of mass occupations in the city, said they were a sign of Mr Leung's "despotic manner".

He wasted his twenties in a series of petty occupations: selling cigarettes wholesale; dealing in spare parts; peddling books on Mutanabi Street, in old Baghdad.

He preferred diplomacy to war, though he did not entirely refrain from the latter, as shown by a series of forced occupations of foreign territory, notably Red Russia (eastern Galicia), in 1340 and 1349.