Sentence examples for less occasion from inspiring English sources

(They may also have less occasion to do so).

— you finally forgave me for being your son, and in the nasty shambles of your life, in which you had less and less occasion for pride, you were proud of me, the first Bidart who ever got a B.A.; Harvard, despite your distrust, was the crown; — but the way you eyed me: the bewilderment, unease: the somehow always tentative, suspended judgment . . .

Indeed, 'the more perfect civilisation is, the less occasion has it for government, because the more does it regulate its own affairs, and govern itself…' (CW I, 358-9).

In The Pure Space Animate, there is less occasion for the multi-figure groups and enigmatic narratives of previous works, with further prominence shifted to the intensive formal activity.

Although they have less occasions to feel discriminated, the relationship between perceived discrimination and unsafe sex was especially strong among this heterosexual transmission group, whose members are probably the more likely to engage in 'sexual mixing' with the general population.

The final was a less memorable occasion, Widnes going down 19-0 to Warrington at Wembley.

Remembering its erection, on August 13th 1961, 50 years ago, should be a less joyous occasion.

He predicted it would continue its transformation into a less spiritual occasion, especially in urban areas.

On Monday, an entertaining if less touching occasion, she sounded her usual, indomitable self, molten at the bottom of her voice and a clarion trumpet at the top.

Hodgson's press conference was a far less spiky occasion, in keeping with the new sense of calm that exists after all the controversies, arguments and traumas that have gone before.

What was remembered on Thursday was a no less solemn occasion: the funeral service of Henry James, which had been held, in the same spot, precisely one hundred years before.