Sentence examples for try to occupy from inspiring English sources

WILD ANIMAL "Nick News With Linda Ellerbee" examines what happens when coyotes, bears, prairie dogs, geese, deer and antelope try to occupy the same space as people.

We were sure that the [Muslim] Brotherhood would try to occupy the squares if we left, so we decided to stay.

The Archdiocese of Boston closed an elementary school two days earlier than planned out of concern that parents angry about the closing would try to occupy the school.

While the tone and content were distinctly nonpolitical, there were clear political ramifications to the speech, giving Mr. Obama a chance, for an evening at least, to try to occupy a space outside of partisanship or agenda.

The organizers of the latest protest said in a statement that they had no plans to try to occupy Parliament, but instead wanted to surround the building to show that "democracy has been kidnapped" by inept Spanish politicians.

"People try to occupy a conservative moral high ground, but the reality is very different," she said".We like to pretend like we're an asexual people with the second-highest population in the world".

They smashed windows and tried to occupy the lobby.

My prediction: it's not going to stop people from trying to occupy Wall Street.

The extremists saw a political gap, and are trying to occupy it.

He said protesters "charged the police cordon, trying to occupy the road junction.

After gaining suzerainty over Bosnia (1463), Matthias tried to occupy the Bohemian kingdom.