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On C-Span, Bill Kristol revealed that Bush's "funny little grin, almost a smirk, that comes across his face occasionally at inappropriate times" had occasioned perplexed discussion among staffers at the cutting-edge-conservative Weekly Standard , which Kristol edits.
The style of John Paul II's papacy has occasioned as much comment as its substance.
The smarter mouse stories are occasioned by a write-up of the research coming out in Nature today.
This comes from a friend whose innocent grandma made that declaration every Sunday, not knowing what occasioned the sniggering from her grandchildren.
Although it is not impossible to find a subjunctive in British writing of today, it is becoming increasingly difficult; indeed, in a book I recently completed for Oxford University Press, virtually all subjunctives were replaced by indicatives (which, because of the solecisms created in American English, occasioned my rewriting of the text to avoid the problem).