Sentence examples for occasion failed from inspiring English sources

Having identified the challenge, Bush, on this occasion, failed to meet it.

Remember the fulminations of Capello when England, on a second straight occasion, failed to score in the first half in Barcelona last year?

Maybe Cleave – a skilful journalist, but perhaps not quite skilful enough on this occasion – failed to find a way of indicating Lennon's characteristic tone of voice.

We had been commuters to the same high school, he as a teacher and I as a student, in secondhand cars that on more than one occasion failed to start, or got stuck in a snowstorm.

His ability to rise to every occasion failed to manifest itself until 1996, when, as a kicker in the World League of American Football, he received an invitation to training camp from the New England Patriots, then coached by Bill Parcells, the nemesis of field-goal kickers everywhere.

Before he left he had had become unreliable and late, had missed 14 entire shifts in 10 months, and on one occasion failed to turn up for two shifts... He... had to be repeatedly reminded about the need for proper attribution in his work.

Be sure to seek out learning environments where you can be creative, try things out, and, on occasion, fail.

He has many and weighty theses to convey about the medicalisation of death, the importance of systems in healthcare, and the reasons doctors, on occasion, fail.

Now, Georgina is a thoroughly good sort, even if she does on occasion fail to reward highly regarded posters with the magnums of champagne that they are due... but we won't dwell on that.

A virtuous adult is not, of course, infallible and may also, on occasion, fail to do what she intended to do through lack of knowledge, but only on those occasions on which the lack of knowledge is not culpable ignorance.

But they still, on occasion, fail to satisfy my expectations of conformity.