Pure will and childish passion occupy the place of the noble infirmities, the abundant thoughts, and the sustaining winged fancies of the great tragedians.

The company said then that passengers could occupy a place paid for by another traveller only if the latter gave permission.

There was no other person who could occupy his place.

For constructing poetry out of silence and infusing life into it, often the poet has to occupy the place of the creator.

In many cases a cheap tool could be used to occupy the place of a missing mechanical part.

I grew up wanting to become a leader—not just to occupy a position of leadership, but to perform capably.

They cannot now be taken by surprise, and they occupy a position which gives them many advantages.

Not all of them had 'actually voted for him, or indeed anyone else, to occupy the position of mayor'.

He was the first francophone to occupy this position.

He was the first professionally trained scholar to occupy that position.

He was the last to occupy the post until after the war.

He occupied the posts of parnas presidente (board president) and life elder.

He occupied that post for almost six years.

No new elections have been held since, and so he still occupies the post.

Illiterate members took part in the debates and in turn occupied the post of president.

We were the first people to occupy the property and the work had been completed about six months before the purchase.

This means that you have the right to use or occupy the property for a given period of time, usually 99 years or more.

It states that a buyer who moves in early will generally occupy the property under a temporary licence arrangement rather than a full-blown tenancy with security of tenure.

In the present case, the terms on which the defendant had been permitted to occupy the property excluded the grant of legal possession.

Accordingly, the defendant had been granted a per-sonal licence to occupy the property.

In their own organisations, they typically occupy the role of troublemaker-in-chief - pushing employees to do more, always wanting to expand faster, hungry to acquire and so forth.

He plays a silent role in the game, and he tends to occupy the role of a deep-lying playmaker more than a defensive stopper.

Now he has to aim for a winning record as captain, however long he occupies that role.

At the same time the loss of traditional skills meant they were less able to occupy the roles that they would have normally taken up.

All three sides occupied a role during wartime conflict.

In an attempt to deal with overcrowding and poor accommodation, each licence will specify the number of people who can occupy a room.

The startled family who were occupying the room could not understand what was going on.

Nowadays, the tourist office occupies the room below and the winding streets are strewn with artists' workshops and galleries.

About a week afterwards, the prisoner came and occupied the room with him.

Covered by his squad, he crawled to a barracks window, climbed in and captured 6 riflemen occupying the room.

But the instant the lights dipped and the curtain lifted, someone came in quickly and occupied the seat three away to my right.

Hopefully none of the standard passengers who occupied the seats used hair oil.

But a bloke smoking while occupying the seat in front has made me walk out.

He occupied his seat between 1967 and 1972.

He occupied the seat between 1990 and 1995.

Under the sale-and-leaseback deal, the retailer will agree to occupy the site for 30 years.

The playing fields occupy a site on the outskirts of the town.

The central gardens of the square occupy the site.

Postwar flats occupy the site of numbers 2026.

A warehouse and distribution center now occupy the site.

Some lives are so broken they take longer to mend, or they occupy a space in society that none of us wants to inhabit.

A small quarter-cylinder greenhouse and metal dining table occupy the space beneath the wisteria canopy - ready for the ambassador to take tea.

Corporate brokers occupy the space between listed companies and their institutional shareholders.

Not only are the couple thrilled to occupy a space they have put their own stamp on, but they feel it has made sense financially.

A saucepan can occupy the space used by six plates.

The building has been razed and a school memorial and veterans' memorial occupy the spot today.

It occupies a spot that was most recently a humbug shop.

A housing estate now occupies that spot.

A library had occupied that spot as far back as the 1930s when the city opened it as a place to discourage people from drinking during prohibition.

A target that each public sector worker should only occupy an office space of ten metres has been reduced to eight metres by 2018.

The company formation agency which used to occupy the office has vacated the premises yet more than 200 active businesses remain officially registered there.

In 1900 occupy the office of inspector general.

Nobody who occupies the office of prime minister without disgracing it can really be written off as 'lazy'.

In 1974 campaigners occupied the office building to protest about it being left empty during a housing crisis.