"occupy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- No territory could be formally claimed prior to being effectively occupied.
- However, as late as 1906 only about 6% of that territory was effectively occupied, and the military campaigns had to continue.
- Later the area so divided and effectively occupied was renamed Umunoha.
- Above all territory must be effectively occupied or it would fall to the partisans; this kept French troops from the battlefield.
- After officially surrendering in 1862 his forces effectively occupied the capital of Yunnan.
- Jolo was not effectively occupied by Spain until 1876.
- Royal troops entered the city, effectively occupied it, and started to dismantle its fortifications.
- The island was under nominal Spanish sovereignty since 1668, but it was not effectively occupied until 1885.
- It was very large--too large to be effectively occupied by the force which he commanded.
- The problem of attacking heavily armed bombers effectively occupied the minds of the Luftwaffe in early 1943.
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