Sentence examples for occasion spent from inspiring English sources

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That also means he has, on occasion, spent more money in a winning effort than the item itself would have cost.

But at the Soldiers Homee, as Matthew Pinsker shows in his book "Lincoln's Sanctuary," another side of his nature became apparent: he played mumblety-peg with a soldier and, on one memorable occasion, spent an evening with Lincoln untangling peacocks.

Most people intensely disliked Stanton; one Cabinet secretary called him "rude and offensive". But at the Soldiers Homee, as Matthew Pinsker shows in his book "Lincoln's Sanctuary," another side of his nature became apparent: he played mumblety-peg with a soldier and, on one memorable occasion, spent an evening with Lincoln untangling peacocks.

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Lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan, who has acted for Ai on several occasions, spent several hours at a police station.

As recounted in Kieffer's graphic novel, Zanta was arrested on multiple occasions, spent a bit of time in jail, and was eventually banned from most of the downtown core, along with Toronto's public transit system.

How else to explain a $763,000 severance deal for College of DuPage President Robert Breuder, a $718,000 severance deal for former Metra CEO Alex Clifford, and nearly $190,000 in taxpayer funds spent on lavish booze and gourmet meals on nearly 500 occasions spent by Breuder, his top administrators and the elected trustees who gave him the severance?

From April 1995 to May 1997 alone, Asahi Bank officials are believed to have entertained Mr. Miyagawa at restaurants and golf courses on 18 occasions, spending $14,400 -- about $800 at a time.

Where the surrealists focused on the more fantastic elements of the subconscious, Bourgeois played with his more subtle ideas of the uncanny (the unheimlich or un-homely)." She was agoraphobic and often had insomnia, on occasions spending four consecutive days awake – by the end of which she would be in a manic state.

The ringleaders, chemistry graduate Irfan Naseer, 31, and Irfan Khalid, 27, both from Sparkhill, Birmingham, had travelled to Pakistan twice for training – on the second occasion spending two months at an al-Qaida training facility in Miran Shah, in north Waziristan, where they had to flee from American drone strikes.

Williams' alcohol problem started during the tours, on occasion spending an important part of the show revenues.

On another occasion I spent several nights at a guest house near the archaeological ruins of Cuma on the Bay of Naples.

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