#occupied

General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle. ↗

— James Longstreet

#battle #behind #beyond #campaign #defensive

American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England. ↗

— John Amery

#american troops #arriving #england #increasing #numbers

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#applied #chair #electricity #expert #father

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#amount #coincides #content #entire #exactly

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#haiti #occupied #states #united #united states

In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#another #been #come #founding #head

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#attention #began #book #father #i

I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research. ↗

— Douglass North

#i #impression #left #life #my life

The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990. ↗

— Douglass North

#development #during #economic #explore #framework

Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#every #every day #freedom #must #occupied