Sentence examples for a difficult occasion from inspiring English sources

Australia Day is not typically a difficult occasion for the Australian prime minister.

But he could be kind when he decided a politician had risen to a difficult occasion and had his favourites.

Otherwise, Liverpool's attackers made it a difficult occasion for Kurt Zouma on a night when Mourinho decided the 20-year-old should partner Terry and dropped Gary Cahill to the bench after a poor sequence of matches.

It is not enough to anticipate the coming of drought, but also to assess the extent to which the country is prepared for such a difficult occasion, and to be ready with a package of measures to mitigate the adverse impacts of drought.

For David Miliband, the former Foreign Secretary, who has made maintaining neutral facial expressions something of an art form, it was an especially difficult occasion.

But this was a potentially more difficult occasion: his deputy had, after all, punched out a citizen.

England's defence can expect a far more difficult occasion in Basel on Monday.

It did not always click and Newcastle kept on attacking, making it another difficult occasion for Victor Lindelof, deputising for the injured Phil Jones.

He rose to the most difficult occasions not so much by remembering them accurately as by conveying them with emotional force.

At THUMP we know that these can be difficult occasions to navigate.

They do a difficult job and, on occasion, will require controlled access to the communications data of suspects.