occupy

Some of the luckier ones occupy a more sheltered valley where a few trees have managed to take root.

It’s to stop occupying the powerful position of the rescuer and learn, at points, to take the risk of being at another mercy’s.

It was, and is, illegally occupied.

And in November 1969, a group of Native Americans, calling themselves Indians of All Tribes, took over and occupied Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay for 19 months.

Among bureaucrats, generals and politicians one has little difficulty in finding clear examples of basically stupid individuals, whose damaging capacity was alarmingly enhanced by the position of the power they occupied.