Sentence examples for past occasions from inspiring English sources

But as on past occasions, Mr. Ivanov was not buying.

At Governors Ball they avoided the self-destructive rants of past occasions.

For the clincher, Mr. Duffee said, look back at past occasions when trading volume rose sharply.

On many past occasions, we have had no difficulty finding a secular purpose for governmental action far more likely to advance religion than the Balanced Treatment Act.

On past occasions The Economist has sometimes joined in with American elections and stated its preference; and it has sometimes opted out.

We continue to be particularly concerned about people who have been detained and/or disappeared and tortured on past occasions of forced disappearance or criminal detention.

But Quentin remembers Frank's "surprised embarrassment" when he discovered – after his computer had been carefully dismantled – "that the reason he could no longer push a CD into the CD-drive was that on some distant past occasion he had pushed a 5.25 floppy disk into the same slot".

Using self-reported 'urban or rural' residence at the time of the survey and at a past occasion, the four-level urbanisation variable captures perceived urbanisation, and is unique in allowing comparison of ruralites to urbanites as well as comparison to urbanisers and de-urbanisers.

England have been the beaten finalists on the past three occasions but find themselves favourites after reigning champions New Zealand were eliminated.

At the Lincoln Memorial, American classical music, the kind heard at past state occasions, was followed by "Stand By Me," Ben E. King's soul classic, marking the rock generation's arrival at Presidential power.

In other places, examinations of the not-so-distant past have occasioned long bouts of municipal soul-searching.