"occasional" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Vessels entering these areas have been detained and inspected; there have been occasional arrests.
- U.S. government organizations, including the FBI, had been monitoring Cuban spy activities for over 30 years, but made only occasional arrests.
- And Hudson still has an occasional arrest for prostitution, said Lieutenant Paolino.
- Only the most desperate remain in a dozen dilapidated motels, where there have been occasional arrests for prostitution, drugs and other small-time crimes since their arrival.
- Our part in this 'controlling puritan attack' consisted of making the occasional arrest, while pursuing the unquantifiable social role which filled most of our time.
- The usual methods included censorship and the occasional arrest and reeducation of social undesirables.
- There were so many property crimes in the city that the investigators spent most of their time taking reports and processing the occasional arrest.
- Such tactics pre-empted violent resistance even when occasional arrests had to be made (Waddington et al., 1989:76-7).
- Their effort seemed to have had some effect; although occasional arrests continue, the all-out campaign of arrest and entrapment of men that began with the Queen Boat incident came to an end.
- Because of the complicated jurisdictional disputes, the state police allowed the gambling to go unchecked except for an occasional arrest.
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