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'When womanhood occurs the girls are more vulnerable to sexual harassment,' says Jaya Jaikodi, who's been working at Mobility India for 12 years.
"We try to prevent, rather than prosecute," says Debashish Nag, government administrator in Nargis's area, Sreepur, "because there is no law to separate a child marriage once it occurs".
As I tip a sachet of sweetener into my daily almond milk latte, it occurs to me I've discovered something new that, one day, I'm going to have to quit.
It occurs to me, putting aside all consideration of who he is as a private indi vidual, that this is who Kevin Spacey is becoming as an actor - a shotgun marriage of two great performers and stars who seem, on the face of it, improbable bedfellows - Jack Lemmon and Al Pacino.
Recent research has eroded the idea that dreaming only occurs during REM sleep, and that it's a "bottom-up' process", with older parts of the brain activating the more recently evolved ones.
Much posturing occurs in bourgeois circles about respecting difference, alongside talk of the value of empathy.
But then I'm reminded of why I spent eight years at university, costing £60,000 and continued into another seven years of training; and this realisation all occurs within the confines of a small consulting room and a four-hour morning surgery.
Yet the only mention of the artist's name occurs in the page on Klimt where it is noted that: "Klimt was much admired by E Schiele".
Silvio Berlusconi – never one for sticking to the script – seems bent on inverting the process that Karl Marx identified: that everything in history occurs twice, "the first time as tragedy; the second as farce".
Killed them all, of course" – occurs after the film-makers present him with a letter he wrote to his friend Susan Berman which bore a close resemblance to an anonymous note sent by Berman's killer to the Beverly Hills police on the day of her murder.
Quite apart from anything else, I sometimes wonder whether it ever occurs to the "cutters" that the public sector not only provides essential services, but that it is also a major customer for the private sector's goods and services.
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The primary grammatical function of "occurs" is as a verb , specifically the third-person singular present tense form. It indicates that something is happening, taking place, or coming to mind. Ludwig AI examples show it functioning within sentences to describe when events or conditions are met.
Expression frequency: Very common
