1.   The town is occupied by enemy forces.

2.   The rebels launched their invasion into the Mutara region in the north, quickly occupying the towns of Nyakatale and Gabiro.

3.   Army troops on Thursday occupied the towns that were attacked and began combing the mountains, crisscrossing southern Mexico in pursuit of the rebels.

4.   Blunt never saw her father, Albert Novotny, who kept out of sight during the two weeks the Americans occupied the town.

5.   The federal force had been sent in to chase out a force of Chechen-led Islamic militants who had occupied the town a few days earlier.

6.   The Israeli army occupying the town would not allow funerals, the doctors said.

7.   The Serbs, who occupied the town until last year, were driven out in fierce fighting and saw their homes burned by advancing Croat and Bosnian government troops.

8.   Troops eventually occupied the town, then looted it.

9.   Waji Abdul, a resident of this town near the Tajikistan border, explained how the Soviets occupied the town and then placed artillery in the surrounding hills.