Sentence examples for offer occasion from inspiring English sources

Only a few such linguistic differences offer occasion for embarrassment or misunderstanding.

It should offer occasion to remember JFK just as much as Britten. .

Ruins, like tragic drama, offer occasions of sweet-and-sour catharsis.

First, military interventions that topple repressive regimes invariably offer occasions to observe, though at others' expense, the law of unintended consequences.

But the fish offers occasion for a conversation with God, and then the poem gets interesting: God, what is the meaning of this minute, tell me, I ask you.

(Of course, it's the easier days that offer the occasion for the play's wittiest lines, which Mr. Whishaw delivers with élan).

But they offer the occasion for the kind of leadership that can recast the political landscape, and redefine the terms of political argument for a generation".

The first annual National Design Awards, announced in September at the White House and presented earlier this month at the Cooper-Hewitt New York Design Museum in New Yofferoffer an occasion to examine these unpopular questions.

The IRRC finds that about 20% of companies on the NYSE do not even have a board-level nominating committee, independent or otherwise.In general, board committees offer little occasion for scrutiny.

For the cold-eyed Maugham, that meeting and its disastrous consequences offered an occasion to attest cynically to human hypocrisy.

It has also offered an occasion for Americans to confront the moral issues of slavery and segregation.