He said the building's office floors were being occupied by professional firms, like architects and software designers, who do not want to pay Manhattan rents and need easy access to the airport.
Instead, on Nov. 28, 1912, while their lands were being occupied by Serbian, Montenegrin, and Greek troops, 83 delegates from all parts of Albania met at Vlorë (Valona), where their leader, Ismail Qemal, proclaimed Albania an independent state.
Franco Sala, who owns the town's sole inn, said that its three bedrooms were being occupied more frequently and that a promotional Web site for Civita, www.civitadibagnoregio.it, registers 60 hits a day, compared with fewer than 10 four years ago, when he started it.
Eva Holland, in the Montreal-based quarterly Maisonneuve, tells a lesser-known story of displacement: during the Second World War, the American government moved the native inhabitants of the Aleutian Islands, off the coast of Alaska, which were being occupied by the Japanese Army, to the mainland.
But Newham Council's Andrew Baikie, the mayoral adviser for housing, said the empty homes were being occupied by "agitators and hangers-on".
Herders also explained that shortage of land was not only in terms of private land to accommodate and feed the animals in winter but also because their summer pastures were being occupied by Bjobsd (alpine yak herders) in winter, necessitating cattle to be moved further south.
Then, day by day by day, the gaps that used to be occupied by God are being occupied by science.
Soon someone announced that the Conservative party HQ was being occupied further down the road at Millbank.
As part of the ongoing pacification of our city, your community is being occupied.
Britain does not compile statistics on how many buildings are being occupied by squatters.
I can go into a rage because it's being occupied... the other [option] is to talk.
