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Some of George W. Bush's critics, particularly Orrin Hatch, disparage him because he occupies a "constitutionally weak governorship."
Consider that the OED , which makes no pretensions at being exhaustive or complete, occupies some twenty quarto volumes in its description of the lexicon alone; consider that a descriptive bibliography of the huge number of lexicographical works on the myriad aspects of English alone would occupy several similar volumes; consider the multivolume works on English grammar--by Curme, Poutsma, Jespersen, et al.; consider the immense corpus of English literature and of the writings about it; and then consider all the material ancillary to the foregoing: the teaching of English not only to foreign learners but to native speakers as well, the conventions of writing, punctuation, usage, and pronunciation, the multifarious influences of English and on English around the world, the study of style and of literary devices, etymology, etc.
The Old Town occupies a strategic position on a nub of land jutting out from the long flat coastline.
Disclosing every last humiliating detail of Clinton's sex life occupies the dead center of what traditional Christianity means by sin--and is perhaps even more deeply wrong than either committing or concealing adultery.
Varadero occupies a long, thin insular spit of sand, with water on both sides and a bridge to the mainland.