Sentence examples for occasion to remember from inspiring English sources

In his radio interview, Mr. Medinsky pledged to make it an occasion to remember and to observe all the obsequies.

Woakes, in contrast, has the opportunity to finish 2015 with an occasion to remember as England prepare for their final Test of an exhausting year against South Africa in Durban on Boxing Day.

For many, the passing of Ken Russell will be an occasion to remember the sometimes ridiculous excesses of his filmmaking — such over-the-top provocations as "The Devils," "Dance of the Seven Veils," and "Lair of the White Worm".

As we in the United States have lately had occasion to remember, humor is often intrinsic to political protest — funny signs and chants, illustrations and effigies of the leader under scorn.

On teaching music appreciation, the now required Music Humanities course, part of Columbia's celebrated Core Curriculum, he writes in How Operas are Created: "More than once during the [years teaching these courses] … I had occasion to remember and re-read the ten pages Virgil Thomson devoted to the subject of the "appreciation racket" in his 1940 book, The State of Music.

It is possible that the president did not focus on Sept. 11 in his speech because Memorial Day is an occasion to remember the nation's war dead and because the victims who died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were largely civilians.

Rallies have been substituted on four occasions — to remember the trade center victims, to protest President Bush's leadership, and to promote labor issues, like more spending for health and education.

"Labor Day," from The Triumph of Achilles, is occasion only to remember her father's death a year ago, which the poet processes conclusively with this profound insight about the length of a human life: "Not a sentence, but a breath, a caesura".

She had been dating her boyfriend for three years before she became pregnant at age 18 and though she had always used the contraceptive pill from the beginning of their sexual relationship, like many other girls, she had on occasion failed to remember to take her pill for a few days at a time.

Anger was sparked among the US's Mexican-American community, for whom the Dia de los Muertos festival is a popular and colourful occasion on which to remember and honour ancestors.

This will indeed be a big anniversary and the planned memorial service will provide the ideal occasion for us to remember his achievements and to pay our respects to this great friend and father of intensive care.