Some articles on occupied:
... No.s 16-18 are now occupied by the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (BRLSI). 5-13) which was originally left open, is now occupied by the 4star Francis Hotel ... On 30 October 2011, the square was occupied as part of the global Occupy movement, with protesters, under the banner of Occupy Bath, pitching tents and ...
... Committee of the Red Cross and the government of the United Kingdom all refer to the "Occupied Palestinian Territories" ... The term is often used interchangeably with the term occupied territories, although this term is also applied to the Golan Heights, which is internationally recognized as part of ... War and are treated by the UN as territory occupied by Israel ...
... On December 26, 1971, fifteen VVAW activists barricaded and occupied the Statue of Liberty for two days in a successful attempt to bring attention to ... Other VVAW members in California also briefly occupied the Saigon Government consulate in San Francisco ... VVAW occupied the Statue of Liberty a second time in 1976 to bring renewed attention to veteran issues ...
... in Time of War of 12 August 1949 1/ is applicable to the Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem, 1 ... of Israel in establishing settlements in the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967 have no legal validity and constitute a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, just ... and materially affecting the demographic composition of the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, and, in particular, not to transfer parts of its own civilian population into ...
... Street in Chicago, a site which it occupied until March 2007 ... USG had its own entrance with a lobby and occupied the first nine floors exclusively and parts of the 11th floor ... USG entered a 15-year lease, and occupied the building in early 2007 ...
More definitions of "occupied":
- (adj): Held or filled or in use.
Example: "She keeps her time well occupied"; "the wc is occupied"
- (adj): Resided in; having tenants.
Example: "Not all the occupied (or tenanted) apartments were well kept up"
Synonyms: tenanted
- (adj): Having ones attention or mind or energy engaged.
Example: "She keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities"
Synonyms: engaged
Famous quotes containing the word occupied:
“Just across the Green from the post office is the county jail, seldom occupied except by some backwoodsman who has been intemperate; the courthouse is under the same roof. The dog warden usually basks in the sunlight near the harness store or the post office, his golden badge polished bright.”
—Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“There are only three kinds of people: those who serve God, having found him; others who are occupied in seeking him, not having found him; while the remainder live without seeking him and without having found him. The first are reasonable and happy; the last are foolish and unhappy; those between are unhappy and unreasonable.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“How often we read that the enemy occupied a position which commanded the old, and so the fort was evacuated! Have not the school-house and the printing-press occupied a position which commands such a fort as this?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)