Sentence examples for virtually occupied from inspiring English sources

Since the summer, residents say, both Rastan and Talbiseh have appeared virtually occupied, with tanks and soldiers guarding the towns' entrances.

In response, through organizing our communities, the poorest of the poor jumped on buses to travel as long as eight hours, and virtually occupied the state capitol in Tallahassee during the Legislative session.

"Why make an issue of our swift, surgical air raid when the Turks virtually occupy northern Iraq?" complains Iran's defence minister, Ali Shamkhani.Iran's position is that American and other western forces should leave the Gulf, letting the countries on its shore work out their own security arrangements.

It was classic Vatican understatement, given that Turkish nationalists had been rioting to prevent it; the Army was virtually occupying Istanbul to keep them from rioting again; and the country's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was fleeing to a NATO meeting in Latvia — and only at the last minute announced that he might have time for the Pope at the Ankara airport just before his flight.

It was classic Vatican understatement, given that Turkish nationalists had been rioting to prevent it; the Army was virtually occupying Istanbul to keep them from rioting again; and the country's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was fleeing to a NATO meeting in Latvia — and only at the last minute announced that he might have time for the Pope at the Ankara airport just before his flight.

I propose that we virtually Occupy Mattel by adding our voices to this page.

But the wars, instead of calming India, had a nasty way of stirring it up, either inside the country or on its frontiers, and this triggered yet more intervention, until, somehow, the British, who had never meant to be occupiers, occupied virtually the entire subcontinent.

Israeli settlements and bypass roads have virtually encircled occupied East Jerusalem, making it impossible for Palestinians to develop and expand their most important urban center -- and making a mockery of the idea of a shared capital.

Mr Niyazov occupied virtually all the high-level offices of state, and had gradually emasculated the government and legislature over the years, subsuming all power to the presidency.

Andreotti had been in the Cabinet of the first postwar government in 1947, and had occupied virtually every important post since then.

These small to medium-sized placentals have spread over all continents (except Antarctica) and most islands, where they occupy virtually all terrestrial ecosystems from tropical rainforests and deserts to the arctic tundra.