Sentence examples for occasion to explain from inspiring English sources

At least the reader used it as an occasion to explain and educate the child about the dangers.

Dr. Gotts used the occasion to explain the finer points of sledding to his two sons, Isaac and Sam.

"Our Santa has variously been on a diet or is lactose-intolerant," said a lawyer friend who has contrived excuses on more than one occasion to explain to her daughter why the cookies and milk that her daughter had left out for Santa on Christmas Eve remained untouched the next morning.

Meryl used the occasion to explain that Disney was an arse – not the greatest revelation to many of us, but a subject Hollywood has surprisingly yet to explore on film – as well as to undermine the awards season itself, which recently got under way, and which will be with us for way longer than 40 days and 40 nights.

William Paonessa, a Mamaroneck trustee who is also deputy mayor, used the occasion to explain his village's decision -- which he called temporary -- to shut its official hiring site at Columbus Park, next to the Metro-North station, on Feb. 2. The site, he said, had been drawing too many illegal immigrants from surrounding communities.

Educational workshops may also represent an occasion to explain to students the importance of having regular blood sampling, and to present them treatment and care that are already available if necessary.

He says he met Spanish MEPs "on various occasions" to explain the impact the directive would have on a "key" sector for Spain.

The criticism from the IFS came as George Osborne failed on nearly 20 occasions to explain how the Tories would fund a commitment to provide an extra £8bn a year to the NHS by 2020.

I've since had several occasions to explain what exactly we're learning from Singapore, as well as to note Zakaria's bad habit of resorting to elitist, snarky put-downs of his critics.

Some of my correspondents feel I should know this history of hers, just as others have on occasion written to explain which ballerinas have histories of scoliosis.

(On one occasion, he tried to explain to me the relationship between emotional intelligence and quantum physics).