Sentence examples for occasion falling from inspiring English sources

She's hip in her unhipness: towering, endearing, wacky -- barging in and, on occasion, falling down.

With the occasion falling on July 30, during an official visit from King Juan Carlos I of Spain, it was announced that 48 Spanish citizens serving time in Moroccan prisons would be freed.

The intensity of the audience reaction waxed and waned, with excitement on one occasion falling away sharply when the onlookers realised again that nothing much was truly at stake, except the need to mark an adventure.

The occasion fell during Fire Prevention Week and National Wilderness Month.

Chinese construction work can be slapdash and buildings erected by mainland firms have on occasion fallen apart.

The proportion of children aged 11 to 15 who have taken drugs on at least one occasion fell from 29 per cent in 2001 to 22 per cent last year.

As in the UK, he has on occasion fallen out with some Belizean politicians on specific issues, including the prime minister.

Not "Elspeth was a vain woman", but "Elspeth looked in the mirror for the tenth time that morning and on each occasion fell a little more in love with the mole on her cheek".

He also blurs descriptive terms into evaluative ones and, on occasion, falls back on such questions as: "Aren't these exactly the best words in the best order?" More generally, someone who'd never read a novel would come away from Wood's criticism with little awareness that writers tell stories as well as brood over characters "like God over the face of the waters".

The A-share index of mainland-traded shares has in the past declined by 3% to 6% within two days of a rate hike, and has on occasion fallen by as much as 20% and 30%, he said.

I'm not forgetting the times friends have puked behind phone boxes, argued with shopkeepers or one notable occasion fallen asleep in a stranger's front garden.