Sentence examples for past occurrence from inspiring English sources

In speaking about the embarrassing experience to the press, Mr. Welles said "The broadcast was performed as if occuring in the future and as if it were then related by a surviror of a past occurrence.

The Huttonian proposal that the Earth has largely achieved its present form through the past occurrence of processes still in operation has come to be known as the doctrine of uniformitarianism.

Although cancer's current epidemiological landscape is fairly well known, its past occurrence and history seem more obscure.

Here we review to what extent the past occurrence of three fundamental aspects of forest conservation can be assessed using paleoecological data, with a focus on northern Europe.

Instead, seismologists have focused on the less precise goal of forecasting the probability of a quake happening in a given period of time, based on past occurrences.

However, a future disturbance event may be forecast based on time series data (i.e., records of past occurrences) and the event's probability of occurrence across a long interval.

Justice Teresi rejected a prosecution motion to preclude some of the expert witnesses the defense plans to call, and he ruled that "past occurrences involving certain defendants" -- presumably incidents in which the officers had fired their guns -- would not be admissible during trial.