But he has since witnessed with horror the ills the revolution wrought: in a common occurrence here, the water table under his land has sunk by 100 feet over three decades as he and other farmers irrigated their fields.
In an effort to prevent this – a frequent occurrence here in the past – the regional UN representative and several ambassadors – from the US, EU, France and several west African countries – have held meetings with opposition parties.
Huge and spectacular, bright orange boldly cross-striped with black, the monarch is America's most celebrated butterfly, and its occurrence here, nearly always in the South-west in the autumn, seems to be increasing, with relatively large numbers arriving in some years: in 1999, there were up to 300.
Street protests are already a regular occurrence here, usually demanding the departure of the military rulers who took power from Mr. Mubarak.
It seems like seven-figure listings are a weekly occurrence here in the Greater Los Angeles area, with an unrelenting surge of trophy homes and speculative developments popping up left and right.
This might be a regular occurrence here, but if the lady at Target held the door open for me, I'd be overcome with suspicion, back away very slowly and move to the next town. .
North Dakota has the lowest unemployment rate in the country, 4 percent, but advocates for the homeless say the number of people they see with nowhere to live — a relatively rare occurrence here until now — grew to 987 in 2009 from 832 in 2008, an increase of about 19 percent.
"It's this little occurrence here, this little occurrence there," he said.
Power failures are rare in the Chinese province of Guangdong, where domestic and foreign companies have invested heavily in power plants, but they are a regular occurrence here.
(The film was also booed at its public screening on Sunday evening — apparently a rare occurrence here).
