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But he can also use the occasion to ask more hard questions about national security.

But all good things must come to an end, on occasion.

Even children had been let out of school for the occasion.

What was the recent occasion and had happened in 1984?

They had been here before on one occasion or another.

So now you know how to turn any mean into a special occasion!

More than enough of those to make every day a special occasion.

But on each occasion he had company, and I needed him alone.

She must have taken off early, just for the occasion.

"Have you had an occasion to work with her before the night in question?"

These became a place where father and son came together on occasion.

But on one occasion he got them all at once.

In former days we never had any occasion to talk.

They could number up to 18 on any given occasion.

On at least one occasion, they made up all the members of a team.

A bit over the top, or good for the occasion?

I've done the same sort of thing on more than one occasion.

The church is used on occasion for special services, including one summer service each year.

Two people have held the office on more than one occasion.

He had heard much the same words on another occasion, not many days ago.

And the two families see each other on social occasions.

But on occasion, the center may be called in, he said.

After that occasion, my wife and I saw little of them.

This was not so very easy a question to answer, and occasioned an "Oh!"

The piece was occasioned by my mother's death, on Christmas of 2008.

I am sorry to have occasioned pain to any one.

The second controversy was occasioned by the terms of his will.

Since then it has occasioned little or no public opposition.

Never mind that the move was occasioned by a business transfer.

It was just another accident, perhaps occasioned by the early hour.

It was dark, a fact occasioned by the sack over his head.

It will also see the number of women rise to 120, from 62; and that could occasion some other reforms.

One meeting I had with him occasioned an episode that has become public.

All he saw was a frown, which might have been occasioned by anything.

I wondered what type of event would occasion its ringing.

The war of 1672 seems to have been in part occasioned by this commercial dispute.

The first appearance of the History in 1964 occasioned many reviews.

This decision occasioned much discussion both in and out of Parliament.

Why a privative cause in nature may occasion a positive idea.

He looked at me for a moment, as if my remark had occasioned surprise.

"And what occasioned you to be on the deck with your ear to the floor?"

It occasioned a great deal of comment and controversy at the time.

These symptoms were more than I had expected, and occasioned me some alarm.

This was a mission occasioned by a friend from the very outset.

There's also the long-standing ethic that those who occasion costs should pay.

It does not include mistakes other than those occasioned by fraud.

When the news of my retirement became public, it occasioned great talk in Paris.

But her case occasioned similar reactions across this town today, particularly by those who live here year round.