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Example sentences for: occasion

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3) Challenge: Dare you rise to the occasion, like Raskolnikov, and reject the petty rules that govern lesser men?
. On yet another occasion I had to write to a colleague by the name of Robert who had had the effrontery to criticize me, and I wanted to do so in a firm but studiedly polite tone.
John Glenn's return to space was the occasion for much sneering.
Once, indeed, on the occasion of my appointment as a contributing editor for literary matters, I was taken, blindfolded, to John Podhoretz's secret dacha , where the Great Leader sits at a plain pine table smoking American cigarettes and planning the glorious overthrow of the reactionaries at the New Republic and New York Review of Books .
First, I have never had the occasion of seeing a reference book marketed on the strength of the celebrity of its editors.