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Example sentences for: happening

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Bombing the Grand Hotel in Brighton, mortaring Heathrow Airport, and setting off bombs on the London docks were actions meant to remind the British of what was happening in Belfast.
We all mourn the death of John F. Kennedy Jr., but at the same time, I will go beyond Fallows' opinion and say that Kennedy's decision to fly on a hazy night in a new one-engine plane over water is not risky--it's down right reckless . I have two daughters, and if I knew that my two daughters were going up in a one-engine plane with a husband who lacked sufficient experience, on a hazy night over the sea, I'd do everything in my power to prevent it from happening.
They couldn't articulate their feelings very well, and what they actually said didn't make any sense, but they were nonetheless right in their sense that something new and good was happening to the economy.
The Counterterrorist Center knew that this was happening.
What was to have happened simply is not always happening.