Sentence examples for to occupy large from inspiring English sources

Like many enforced recruits, he benefited from the military's frantic laying-on of courses to occupy large numbers of temporary servicemen that it did not really want.

In 2011, Obama reduced the number of American troops in Iraq to zero; this total withdrawal, Mattis said, destabilized Iraq and allowed ISIS to occupy large parts of the country.

Densely DNA methylated regions tend to occupy large and discrete regions of the genome and can act as referential structural blocks for building up the whole functional organization of the nucleus.

In the non-virtual world the Kremlin has deployed its youth movement to occupy large public spaces, brought troops into the centre of Moscow and cordoned off the main squares.

Different insertion mechanisms of sodium ions and lithium ions are proposed that hydrated Na ions could insert at interstitial sites, while hydrated Li ions are more likely to occupy large open sites due to the larger radius of hydrated Li ions than hydrated Na ions.

With Israeli troops continuing to occupy large parts of the West Bank and with Mr. Arafat unwelcome in the eyes of the Bush administration, outside experts on the region also remain skeptical about the president's resolve to press hard to move toward renewed political and peace negotiations.

On the first day, individual cell areas were larger in cells grown in higher collagen concentrations (Fig. 2C), in agreement with previous findings showing that malignant epithelial cells tend to occupy larger surface areas when grown on stiffer matrices15,32.

At the same time, species that are able to occupy larger areas may have more source populations, increasing their likelihood of being transported elsewhere [43], [46].

As the hypertrophic cells expand to occupy larger volumes (Buckwalter, 1983; Hunziker et al., 1987), the volume of extracellular matrix diminishes and the concentration of aggrecan increases (Matsui et al., 1991; Plaas and Sandy, 1993).

In addition to occupying large areas in the heart of Tel Aviv it accommodates the Israeli military deep underground, where the pre-planning and the daily orders for the assaults on Gaza were made.

Twelve months ago "credit crunch" referred to impending financial collapse, not the deceptively moreish government-sponsored breakfast cereal which has saved the British economy but left most of western Europe hooked on morphine - but then there was always bound to be an economic upside to occupying large parts of Afghanistan.