Sentence examples for usual occasion from inspiring English sources

His problem with his circumstances is itself circumstantial, the usual occasion for worry: he's made some normal human mistakes, suffered some minor setbacks, taken some shots, and he just doesn't want to fuck up again, or miss an important cue or a warning detail.

Logistic regression analysis was used to determine the associations between risky drinking (drinking more than four drinks on a usual occasion), demographic and social supply variables.

Volume of absolute alcohol intake (in millilitres) was computed as (% pure alcohol)×(drink size)×(number of drinks consumed) for each beverage consumed on any usual occasion in the past 6 months.

We found that rates of both smoking (ever) and drinking (one or more alcoholic drinks on a usual occasion) were higher among more consumerist Scottish early adolescents, as measured by a range of indicators.

For the purposes of these analyses we used information provided by the man himself about socio-demographic characteristics, smoking habits and also about the frequency of drinking each type of beverage alcohol (beer, wine and spirits) over the past year, and the amount of each beverage drunk on a usual occasion.

Aside from the usual occasions — Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest, Halloween, days that end in 'y' — there are Sundays in the fall, every one of them a festival, when faces are painted black and gold, fans are dressed as robots, clowns and Elvises, and the Superdome parking lot smells of boiled crawfish.

As usual the occasion was marked by gifts of stodgy pastries known as mooncakes, often containing a solid yolk representing that day's full moon.

On a usual drinking occasion, boys were seven times more likely to report risky drinking at statistically significant levels (p<0.001).

One-fifth of the sample (19.7% males and 22.2% females) had ever smoked and two-fifths (40% males, 40.7% females) reported drinking one or more alcoholic drinks on a usual drinking occasion (table 1).

This was to determine the standard amount of pure ethanol (12 g of ethanol) per glass and estimate the total quantity (in grams) of alcohol provided to teenagers by social suppliers on a usual drinking occasion.

The aim of the present study was, thus, to examine the social supply among Korean high schoolers, the characteristics of primary suppliers, places where alcohol is usually supplied and the odds of risky drinking (report of drinking more than four drinks on a usual drinking occasion in the past 6 months).