  We discuss a thinning and an embedding procedure to construct finite Gibbs
processes with a given Papangelou intensity. Extending the approach in
Hofer-Temmel (2019) and Hofer-Temmel and Houdebert (2019) we will use this to
couple two finite Gibbs processes with different boundary conditions. As one
application we will establish Poisson approximation of point processes derived
from certain infinite volume repulsive Gibbs processes via dependent thinning.
As another application we shall discuss empty space probabilities of certain
Gibbs processes.
