Sentence examples for series of occasions from inspiring English sources

There have been a series of occasions that marked a range of landmark changes in the Afghan psyche.

In his living room, he'd hung a placard that reads, "The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, and a perpetual series of occasions for hope".

He says that since he left the Metropolitan police 12 years ago he has been threatened on a series of occasions by Met officers with the Official Secrets Act if he spoke out.

Question two: Why did the Metropolitan police go on acting in concert with Mahmood on a series of occasions after evidence had emerged (as in the 2003 Beckham kidnap case) that he had used an agent provocateur?

Recognizing the authority with which Leo spoke, the council fathers declared, "Peter has spoken through the mouth of Leo!" The council was only one in a long series of occasions when the authority of Rome, sometimes by invitation and sometimes by its own intervention, served as a court of appeal in jurisdictional and dogmatic disputes that had erupted in various parts of Christendom.

The regular £15m the Glazers are set to make from United every year follows a series of occasions on which they have made money since floating the club, which they bought in 2005 using debt that the club itself has been made to repay.

It is a series of festive occasions in which people are celebrating what they did in the past.

This 4-6, 6-1, 6-1 victory for the Nasdaq-100 Open championship was another in a long series of joyous occasions for Williams.

In a year that will be punctuated by sober reflection and a series of commemorative occasions, it is tempting to assume a certain inevitability to events, especially when looking at them through the prism of hindsight.

Racing has enjoyed a series of grand occasions over the past few months, from Frankel's ever-extending winning streak to Camelot's win in the Derby at Epsom and Black Caviar's victory at Ascot in June.

A snobbish, disagreeable woman, she was living with her husband in Brussels in self-imposed exile for pecuniary reasons; her ball, given on 15 June 1815, was merely one in a series of society occasions thrown for officers of Wellington's army, which was based in the Belgian capital.