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Several tables were occupied by Italians enjoying coffee and pastries.
The top spots, though, were occupied by Robert James Waller.
Even before the scandal, two seats were occupied by inactive members.
The countries were occupied by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944.
And at least 25,500 of those properties were occupied residential structures.
According to the city, none of the demolished houses were occupied.
At the time, parts of China were occupied by foreign powers.
Prior to that, Polish territories were occupied and incorporated into the Third Reich.
This comes after 163 schools were occupied by families to prevent their closure.
We were occupied by Allied forces, and there was a lot of crime.
In 1970, Grove's offices were occupied by feminists who accused Rosset of sexism.
The first several rows in front of the president were occupied by wheelchair Paralympians.
Yet as one might suspect, would-be Pokemon trainers were occupied by other things.
Fewer than two dozen of Galion's 250 deck-chairs were occupied on Saturday afternoon.
In the cities, palaces and bourgeois residences were occupied and repurposed as community institutions.
Less than 17% of hotel rooms in both cities were occupied, according to STR.
The groups that had influenced them, he said, were occupied with creation, not reaction.
Some boats were occupied, and flames forced several people to jump into the water.
Investors were occupied by corporate earnings, in what is one of the season's busiest weeks.
As of late June, 22 of the facility's 58 beds were occupied by immigrant youths.
The precise locations of the villages, which were occupied from 1638 to 1651, were unknown.
Twenty-seven of the motel's 60 rooms were occupied at the time of the fire.
But this year, William's thoughts were occupied by one on the other end of the globe.
As a result, the second and third spots in the ranking were occupied by steel tycoons.
"Most of the rooms were occupied by a single mother with a couple of kids," he recalled.
All the tables were occupied, so we sat on the sidewalk out front, eating from plastic containers.
In 2009, by comparison, 54.6 percent of rooms were occupied, according to the travel research company STR.
At the front of the Maginot Line sat fortified houses that looked ordinary but were occupied by soldiers.
More than a dozen of the rooms of the inn were occupied at the time, Mr. Ord said.
All the tables on the first floor were occupied by either diners or piles of bowls and napkins.
For a period during the late 2000s, however, arriving guests were occasionally told that the rooms were occupied.
Authorities said 27 rooms were occupied and 90 percent of the property was damaged by smoke, fire or water.
All the public seats inside the meeting room were occupied and there was a line to get in. ADVERTISEMENT
Unlike most European states that were occupied by the Germans, Poland didn't collaborate with Hitler in any official capacity.
Ten years later its premises, gutted and rebuilt, were occupied by the City University of New York Graduate Center.
Most of the seats around Nidetz's, particularly the premium ones in front of his, were occupied by Yankees fans.
So while my dad and brother were occupied, I pulled her aside to tell her I needed emergency contraception.
Some of the boats were occupied, and the flames forced several people to jump into the water to escape.
Josephine Majani delivered her baby on the floor of Bungoma District Hospital in 2013 because all the beds were occupied.
After the islands were occupied at the end of World War II, as many as 17,000 Japanese citizens were expelled.
Most of the houses were occupied by the original postwar owners aging in place or by couples buying starter homes.
The Channel Islands, for example, which were occupied by Germany from 1940 to 1945, have stamps that suggest printing subterfuge.
Days were occupied with his grandmother, who ran a travel agency, and his grandfather, a manager at the credit union.
In addition, 2315 spots were occupied by employees who were allowed to delay their relocation or staffers from other agencies.
It's unclear how many were occupied at the time of the collapse, Red Cross spokesman Abbas Gullet told CNN affiliate KTN.
The other top spots, from second to ninth, were occupied by Finland, Sweden, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Singapore and Canada.
The islands were occupied by Soviet forces at the end of WWII, when as many as 17,000 Japanese citizens were expelled.
In the absence of a functioning Civil Service, ministries were occupied rather than run by generals, and their friends and relatives.
Spain said on Saturday that only 163 voting sites were occupied, far below the 443,315 stations that Catalonian officials had promised.
Nightlife hubs like La Placita de Santurce and Old San Juan were occupied by far fewer people than in years past.
An excerpt of the rejection letter in "On Her Own Ground" says Washington's "time and attention" were "occupied" with building his institution.
Most of the tables were occupied by customers, many of whom were hunched over, looking defeated by the long night of drinking.
At Mangia Mangia on Key West's Southard Street, just three of the restaurant's 30 tables were occupied on a recent Saturday evening.
When Switzerland faced the Czech Republic in the opening game, the stands were occupied mainly by parents of players on the ice.
So all the homes that when I was a kid were occupied by [black] people that I knew, the majority are Hispanic now.
When my manager and I entered the boardroom, all the seats around the table were occupied and the occupants were all Caucasian males.
All of the seats at the front of the bus were occupied, except for one that had a black leather jacket on it.
Our soldiers watched as cities they had fought for and bled to liberate, and won, were occupied by a terrorist group called ISIS.
For the first time in 25 years, all three podium spots for the men's all-around world title were occupied by European gymnasts.
In the late '90s, the small factories and shikumen homes along Lane 210 on Taikang Road were occupied by painters, sculptors and ceramists.
All but nine were occupied, and other than maxing out the rent, developers had few tools if they wanted to get tenants out.
Our soldiers watched as cities they had fought for, and bled to liberate, and won, were occupied by a terrorist group called ISIS.
He said it was "a minor miracle" the casualty toll was not higher because most of the trailers were occupied when the storm hit.
In a 2002 study, San Francisco found that about a quarter of its rent-controlled units were occupied by households with incomes over $100,000.
Most of the rooms were occupied, with at least 100 guests of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology staying there for a conference.
At issue is the future of the sections of Donetsk and Luhansk that were occupied by Russian-backed rebels in the spring of 2014.
The hotel presents to visitors a wonderful attempt at understanding the lives of Palestinians condemned to live behind the walls and whose lands were occupied.
""On my previous job, when our building was still under construction, the only floors that were occupied were the 219st, 25nd, 203th, 220th and 22663th.
This was the very same contingent that stole part of the show when Trump acknowledged that 58% of all new jobs were occupied by women.
Environmental and public health critics accused the Trump administration of taking advantage of the pandemic to barrel ahead while opponents were occupied with the crisis.
The new owners claimed on permit applications that the building was vacant, although all 20 apartments in the building were occupied by rent-regulated tenants.
But by the time the board of directors decided it had to close the property, only 80 of its beds were occupied, about 70 percent.
A line of boarded-up clapboard shops selling tacky T-shirts lined the road in, and the central plazas were occupied only by the occasional dog.
At dawn on Thursday, residents said, an airstrike destroyed three houses that were occupied by an ISIS squad trained to use anti-aircraft and tank weapons.
That brought the number of Airbnb listings in the city to 5,000, of which 76% were occupied on May 353st at an average price of $209.
Further, forty years ago essentially all of the women out of the labor force were occupied as homemakers, and now that percentage is less than half.
I ran outside and looked around, but the temple grounds were occupied only by large crows, which took clumsily to the sky as I ran past.
Reserved seats in the front were occupied by several CBS executives and board directors, including Shari Redstone, who controls CBS through her family company, National Amusements.
Of the 100 beds, no more than a third were occupied at any time this year, with as few as a handful of patients at times.
Parliament's national security committee canceled an emergency meeting Tuesday with heads of the intelligence and security agencies; it said the security chiefs were occupied restoring order.
Because of their stand, hundreds and then thousands of students and local residents rallied to the cause, and within two days three more buildings were occupied.
The chairs were occupied by a circle of silent, seemingly spellbound men and women, their eyes pinned on a woman at the center of the room.
In the fifties, after the invention of direct dialing, the building was converted into apartments, which were occupied mostly by elderly females and young single working women.
The city targeted buildings where more than 50 percent of the units were occupied by homeless people — a threshold that would guide future acquisitions, the city said.
On a recent Saturday afternoon, only four of around 100 baccarat tables were occupied, while the rest of the casino lay empty and VIP sections were closed off.
By late 270, several abandoned structures, farms, and barns were occupied by outside activists who assembled in the area in opposition to the Aéroport du Grand Ouest plan.
Indian moviegoers held a lot of sway as three slots were occupied by Bollywood-related searches, spurred by the Indian box office juggernaut Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (#11).
Back at the Circle, the parlor's five chairs were occupied, and a steady trickle of "Game of Thrones" fans emerged from the basement with their new, free, tattoos.
In Paris, acres of show floor were occupied by motorcycles and lots of Suzuki cars and trucks, a budget line that has largely abandoned the United States market.
Just six years later, in 235, turnout was the lowest it had been since 240, when a lot of American voters were occupied defending democracy in other ways.
Of the organizations where the executives worked, the study found only 18% of top leadership positions — from senior managers to the C-suite — were occupied by women. Why?
Franca said about 150 buildings in the region were occupied by organized groups of squatters, who have pressured the government for years to provide housing for the city's homeless.
They thereby hoped to judge the guillemot population's health by noting from their photographs how many nests were occupied by birds that were either incubating eggs or brooding hatchlings.
They were occupied by Russian special forces and mercenaries who have been deployed in Syria for five years to protect the tattered regime of Syrian President Bashar al Assad.
When Taipei's streets were occupied by rallies both for and against same-sex marriage in November and December, her silence surprised some who had seen her as an ally.
A row of Maine's most prominent politicians was seated on the dais, beside Ms. Zhang, and the first rows of folding chairs were occupied by dark-suited Chinese executives.
One awful winter day, all the dryers at the local laundromat were occupied, and she trekked around with her wet clothes, hunting for a place with a free dryer.
When I visited, nearly all were occupied by women who were about to deliver or had recently delivered, the former eyeing the latter with a mix of longing and envy.
At that time, two rows of seats at the front and center were occupied by young men and a few women, all white, mostly wearing white polo shirts and khakis.
Four of the islands, Iturup, Kunashir, Shikotan and Habomai, were occupied by Russia three days after the end of World War II, giving them complete control of the Kuril chain.
I gave the device to our video producer Veanne, as my own wrists were occupied with the Versa Lite and Apple Watch 4 to A/B test the new product.
Poirier was wise to this and initially attempted to circle away from the kick before stepping in to swing with his free hand while both of Pettis's hands were occupied.
But on average, fixtures in copper-equipped rooms had concentrations of bacteria about 98 percent lower than in rooms furnished with traditional equipment, whether the rooms were occupied or not.
One recent morning in Malone at Nancy's Cafe, which has a countertop lined with fresh-baked berry pies and a seemingly endless supply of coffee, only two tables were occupied.
That is partly because there were 4.1 percent fewer so-called playing weeks — the total amount of time in which theaters were occupied by shows — than in the previous season.
That's possibly because their cognitive resources were occupied thinking about the potential danger they encountered, so they had fewer resources left to think about the request that was just posed.
The government said just a small percentage of schools were occupied, however, and that it had verified that most of the more than 2,300 earmarked for the vote were closed.
There are about 63 campsites in the location of the shooting in the Calabasas park, and they likely all were occupied at the time, Park Superintendent Tony Hoffman told the outlet.
Since 2007, about half of the nearly 60 beds at the facility were occupied by immigrant teens of both genders who were facing deportation proceedings or awaiting rulings on asylum claims.
The building housed about 164 one-room apartments, but it's not clear how many were occupied at the time of the collapse, Red Cross spokesman Abbas Gullet told CNN affiliate KTN.
By the time the event got under way, about 45 minutes after the scheduled start time, all of the chairs in the room were occupied and a few people were standing.
Complaints about the Trump organization's rental policies continued to mount: By 1967, state investigators found that out of some 19823,700 apartments in Trump Village, seven were occupied by African-American families.
Some of the homes were rentals, which meant they were "in bad shape," while others were occupied by low-income families, who simply didn't have the means to repair their dwellings.
And according to the pro-immigration American Immigration Council, in 2015, 253,152 of those jobs were occupied by immigrants, a share that was higher than immigrants' percentage of the overall population.
Some companies, including Ariane Mnouchkine's egalitarian Théâtre du Soleil, took their work to factories or to the streets; in addition to the Odéon, a number of venues were occupied or repurposed.
Stocks hardly budged for most of the day as investors were occupied with Ms. Yellen's appearance on Capitol Hill and the vote this week on Britain's possible withdrawal from the European Union.
Added to that is a serious shortage of working hands: In the 1990s, the ranks of the caregiving sector in Israel were occupied primarily by female immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
It would surprise most Americans how little the Arab public and media here – nine time zones from Washington, D.C. – were occupied this week with the congressional hearings on impeaching President Donald Trump.
In 2009, well before Buttigieg took office, South Bend had 48,683 total housing units, 41,7673 of which were occupied and 7,316 which were vacant, giving the city a vacancy rate of 15%.
As I waited for a return call from the DC Health Department, I visited two more nearby walk-in clinics — at one, all doctors were occupied in a five-hour all-staff meeting.
Inside the Farrow & Ball showroom, a few dozen chairs had been set up in rows; they were occupied mainly by young couples, their well-groomed heads leaning together as they studied paint cards.
But even if England were occupied, it's fair to think a vigorous resistance movement would have forced Germany to keep a huge reserve of troops in place to hold down the island kingdom.
It is always funny, occasionally offensive, and not unlike watching a high speed trainwreck, if the crashed locomotives in question were occupied by viciously witty drag queens making dildo jokes amidst the fiery wreckage.
They lost favor, along with R.O.T.C., at many elite colleges in the late 1960s and 403s, when many college students were occupied with the civil rights movement, the draft and the Vietnam War protests.
But the data had limits: It did not include whether owners were reporting buildings as vacant when they were occupied, or whether they were saying that buildings had no regulated apartments when they did.
In fact, in a recent study published in the USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism, researchers found that from the 100 top-grossing films of 2016, only 3% of roles were occupied by Latinxs.
That's why, as a historical matter, Channels 2-13 were generally more powerful than higher channels, and why those spots on the TV "dial" were occupied by affiliates of the traditional "Big 3" TV networks.
We reached a dining room where several tables were occupied by families, whose members ranged in age from a grandfather in a Mao-style suit to a couple of kids chasing each other around the table.
If we thought the 2010s were occupied by the Kardashian-Jenners, the future is sure to be full of all the cool things Mason Disick, North West, and the rest of the gang will be up to.
In the fall, new sculptures by Carol Bove will fill the façade niches that were occupied by Mutu's The NewOnes, will free Us — individually titled "The Seated I, II, III, and IV" (2019) — through January of this year.
During game 5 of the World Series on Sunday, Washington Nationals fan Jeff Adams didn't miss an opportunity to catch a home run ball — even though both of his hands were occupied by two bright blue cans of Bud Light.
This follows an October report from BuzzFeed News that revealed local content for IBT Australia is produced by writers in the Philippines, and its offices in Sydney were occupied by people who say they do not work for the company.
"Our research group was coming into position to make measurements on a developing tornado in the Texas Panhandle but could not find any locations to park the radar, as all available vantage points were occupied with chaser traffic," he said.
A survey by Yemen's education ministry cited by the report showed that of 1,671 schools in 20 governorates which suffered damage, 287 need major reconstruction, 544 were serving as shelters for internally displaced persons, and 20153 were occupied by armed groups.
Disagreement over the sovereignty of the Kuril Islands, the southernmost of which lies just kilometers off Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, dates back to 1945 when they were occupied by the Soviet Union in the closing days of the conflict.
According to a mid-January internal USDA staffing memo obtained by POLITICO, ERS had only 2187 out of 227 positions filled in the new offices while 183 jobs were occupied in Washington, despite the agency having funding for 218 employees.
But the heart of the show is here at a soundstage in Manchester, a big city in the north of England that the production chose because all the other UK soundstages big enough were occupied by Star Warses and Marvels.
Dana Rhoden reportedly worked at a nursing home for elderly people, and had recently purchased a new mobile home close to the other two trailers where shootings took place, which were occupied by her ex-husband, her son, and her son's girlfriend.
President Tsai watched as the air force landed F-16V aircraft on a highway in eastern Changhua county, an exercise designed to test the military's refueling and rearming capacity if major airfields on the island were occupied or destroyed by the PLA.
Seeking to cement his diplomatic legacy and improve ties with Russia to counter a rising China, Abe has pledged to settle the dispute over four isles in the Western Pacific that were occupied by Soviet troops toward the end of the war.
When I began working in the pro-life movement in the late 1980s, while the "boots on the ground" were often female, the C-suites of organizations like the National Right to Life and Americans United for Life were occupied by men.
But the downside for now is that the main stadium often has a low-energy atmosphere, and though ticket sales have been brisk, fewer than half of the seats were occupied when Isner and Auger-Aliassime began play shortly after 1 p.m.
When militarized policing combined with such intrusive, but routine, hyperpolicing policies as "stop and frisk," it made urban black communities feel as if they were occupied territories and that any typical encounter with police could be fraught with the threat of harassment and arrest.
Before the Museum of Broken Relationships Los Angeles opened, offices on Quinn Emanuel's second floor were occupied by the curatorial team Mr. Quinn had hired (with the help of paralegals) and the objects they culled through online submissions (including a three-foot-tall dinosaur piñata).
In a recent study published in the USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism, researchers found that from the 100 top-grossing films of 2016, only 3% of roles were occupied by Hispanics — even though the minority group makes up for 17.8% of the U.S. population.
In a recent study published in the USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism, researchers found that of the 100 top-grossing films of 24, only 3% of roles were occupied by Latinxs — and of that, one-fourth of the women cast were either nude or in sexy attire.
About five years ago, pediatricians at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville found that more and more of their inpatient beds at the children's hospital were occupied by children and adolescents with mental health issues, especially those who had come in because of suicide attempts, or suicidal thoughts.
There was no place to park—the front yard and a small space across the street were occupied by Katz's three automobiles: a 1975 Cadillac Eldorado that his brother Bernie had sold him, secondhand, in the early nineteen-eighties, a dingy Oldsmobile, and a BMW that was temporarily out of commission.
Tenant activists also issued a report on Monday based on city and state records that suggested that an investment group led by Mr. Cohen had also falsified construction permits by claiming that three buildings in Manhattan were vacant or without rent-regulated tenants, when they were occupied and many tenants had rental protections.
Motorola has often been compared to the archetypical heroes of World War II. The Russian mythology of the war emphasizes the role played by partisans — that is, the miners and tractor drivers who, when their towns and villages were occupied by Nazis, continued to fight the Germans independently from the regular army.
That's a fact that seems to have captured the attention of the Trump, who is in a position realign American immigration policy in a way that could reshape the labor market for technology workers in the U.S. In 21, just 285 percent of American computer science jobs were occupied by foreign-born workers.
That's a fact that seems to have captured the attention of the Trump, who is in a position realign American immigration policy in a way that could reshape the labor market for technology workers in the U.S. In 1980, just 73 percent of American computer science jobs were occupied by foreign-born workers.
The territories in question, as we recall were "occupied" by Jordan and Egypt in the war of 213, two countries with which Israel has signed a peace treaty and maintains diplomatic relations, but they are claimed today by the Palestinians, who did not have any political entity at the time and certainly not a state whose lands were taken.
"Roll call," Adda said so quietly that only Pel and Iridian reacted, Pel with a nervous laugh and Iridian with the frown she wore every time they discussed AI. The Casey's transmitters were occupied with a long-range comm already in progress, and it stopped Adda from reallocating any of its comm capabilities to interfere with law enforcement broadcasts.
Mr. Gaudry said that during a recent lunch at Le Gabriel, the Michelin two-star restaurant of the luxury hotel La Réserve, he was stunned to see that only about a third of the tables were occupied; at Chez L'Ami Jean, a well-known bistro specializing in Basque cuisine that is featured in many American guidebooks and blogs, it was even worse.
The rest of the rooms were occupied by old ladies: one who spoke no English and kept her television tuned to blaring Russian talk shows; a retired teacher in the final throes of cervical cancer; an unflappable, perpetually crocheting 99-year-old who had recently gained back some weight and taken to playing piano and who, everyone suspected, wasn't actually dying anymore.
The law, which was slated to go into effect in February, would have required Airbnb and similar platforms to give the OSE monthly reports on host activity, including listing addresses, information on when the listings were occupied and on fees received by the platform, the full name, address, phone number, and email for each host, and their bank account information.

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