Sentence examples for At an occasion from inspiring English sources

You would never perform "The Rite" at an occasion like the breaching of the Berlin Wall, where Leonard Bernstein so memorably did the Ninth in 1989.

It would frankly have been rude to rebuff him, not least at an occasion in which Mr Obama spoke movingly of Mr Mandela's spirit of reconciliation.

Three years ago Khan was invited to a White House  dinner with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the only British guest among a group of prominent Muslim sports personalities at an occasion ostensibly to mark the end of Ramadan.

In the old days, people knew who their friends were -- for starters, they were the ones who spelled your name right -- and if it was important for a host to have a particular friend at an occasion, he or she would convey this with a phone call or other personal gesture.

Here are the facts we know, laid out like a lawyer might: Heydon accepted an invitation to speak at an occasion he knew was a Liberal party event after he became the head of the hugely contentious and political royal commission into trade union corruption.

Should you arrive at an occasion armed for what the invitation has led you to believe is a knife fight, and it turns out, in fact, to be a gunfight…well, no problem, my man, you will still be cool in school as long as the blade in your hand is the G.R.A.D. Hybrid, which converts, with the simple push of a button, into a five-shot.22 long pistol.

Using a concert at the Garden as an occasion to challenge himself artistically?

Last weekend, Arsenal played their final league match at Highbury, an occasion that was at once a celebration and a long goodbye.

Forty, as anyone who has turned it can attest, is, at best, an occasion for ambivalence and, at worst, a bracing peek over the top of the hill.

He has at least an occasion to treasure whatever he does.

By Robert Gorham Davis The New Yorker, January 9 , 1943 P. 15A happy little professors family at breakfast, an occasion they always made much of.