"While an emergency does not create power," Hughes said, "an emergency may furnish the occasion for the exercise of the power".
If the observance of this anniversary is to be of any permanent value to the commonwealth, it should furnish the occasion for a survey of progress during the century that has passed in order that future development may be built upon a solid foundation.
The crusades furnished an occasion for both the sons of serfs and of the nobility to enrich themselves and even to find new land to cultivate.
Imaginative writers need editors; but when it is the editor or the series that furnishes the occasion to exercise their imaginations the results can be mediocre.
Reserving the necessary right of the President of the U S to decide, independently of all other authority, what papers, coming to him as President, the public interests permit to be communicated, & to whom, I assure you of my readiness under that restriction, voluntarily to furnish on all occasions, whatever the purposes of justice may require.
The Garcia-Gutierrez concerto had furnished other happy occasions in his career.
Last weekend's Look, and a related video in Rachel Nolan's post below, furnish the perfect occasion to revisit — and recommend strongly — an article that appeared 15 years ago in The Atlantic Monthly: "In the Monster's Maw," by Burkhard Bilger.
In the present case it will be proper to consider: (1) Whether the main object of the legislation is, or reasonably may be deemed to be, of general and public moment, rather than of private and particular interest, so as to furnish a just occasion for such interference with personal liberty and the right of acquiring property as necessarily must result from carrying it into effect.
"And when the rebellion shall have been suppressed — as suppressed it soon will be; when this war shall have been terminated … and when this union of ours shall have been restored … it will furnish a fitting and appropriate occasion to celebrate that welcome event".
Official choir of Memorial Church, furnishing music for Sunday services and special occasions in the church calendar.
Accordingly, "[l]iability cannot be predicated on a prior and remote cause which merely furnishes the condition or occasion for an injury resulting from an intervening unrelated and efficient cause, even though the injury would not have resulted but for such a condition or occasion * * *." Clements v. Tashjoin, 92 R.I. 308, 314, 168 A.2d 475, 475 (1961) (citing 65 C.J.S. Negligence § 111d at 693).
