In this context, a picnic functions as a temporary occupation of significant public territory.

Losses during the German occupation of Polish territory were 5.1 million persons.

This meant occupation of territory, a step beyond the piracy pursued in Elizabethan days.

He insisted that his decision was not the first step toward a large-scale occupation of Iraqi territory.

The boycott was necessary, they said, because Israeli academics had failed to adequately pressure the government to end its occupation of Palestinian territory.

However, the occupation of territory is very recent for most peoples, and very often has entailed excluding the inhabitants already there.

Russia's continued occupation of territory claimed by Japan is a persistent irritant in relations between the countries.

Maximum destruction of Pakistani forces and occupation of territory was the primary objectives.

Yet its greatest impact may not be on Israel or its occupation of Palestinian territory.