Occurrences Sentence Examples

He pointed to the changes wrought on domesticated organisms by the artificial selection of similar variations, and drew the inference that there must be parallel occurrences under wild nature.

Later observers have found similar occurrences in the cases of small nematodes, rotifers and bacteria.

Among other occurrences of the name of Avon in Great Britain there may be noted - in England, a stream flowing south-east from Dartmoor in Devonshire to the English Channel; in South Wales, the stream which has its mouth at Aberavon in Glamorganshire; in Scotland, tributaries of the Clyde, the Spey and the Forth.

He, moreover, sought in the events of his own life a verification of the theory of planetary influences; and it is to this practice that we owe the summary record of each year's occurrences which, continued almost to his death, affords for his biography a slight but sure foundation.

The citizens of Cairo, accustomed to such occurrences, immediately closed their shops, and every man who possessed any weapon armed himself.

Both narratives are doubtless based upon actual occurrences - the cures narrated in Mark ii., iii., viii., x.

At this juncture a firmgn arrived from Constantinople conferring on Mehemet Ali the pashalic of Jedda; but the occurrences of a few days raised him to that of Egypt.

News of these occurrences was received with dismay in England.

It can also reduce pain and muscle spasms occurrences, making it easier to fall asleep.

Some consider the occurrences to be the unconscious mind's attempts to communicate to the conscious mind while others see the events as a way for the unconscious mind to escape influence of consciousness.

However, Jung looked at the occurrences as helpful guides that help reveal the needs of the conscious mind.

Sleeping and dreaming are nightly occurrences for most people, but insomnia and other sleep disorders can interfere with dreams and sleep.

Publicized crimes involving childhood abductions, although rare occurrences, frighten many parents and make them unsure about how best to protect their children.

Heartbeat abnormalities such as tachycardia (rapid heart rate) and heart block (impaired conduction of the heart's cardiac impulses) are common occurrences.

However, studies also indicate that ECE produces persistent gains on achievement test scores, along with fewer occurrences of being held back a grade and being placed in special education programs.

Studies have shown occurrences of children thinking about suicide or attempting suicide in clinical trials for this medicine.

Other symptoms include shortness of breath, wheezing, and frequent occurrences of respiratory illness, such as bronchitis.

Occurrences of hyperglycemia can be prevented by careful monitoring of blood glucose levels and insulin injections while balancing exercise and diet.

If you suffer from strong premenstrual syndrome (PMS) each month, consider taking an extended-cycle pill that will reduce these occurrences, such as Seasonique.

Both of these natural occurrences create large amounts of negative ions which essentially clean the air, leaving behind a fresh smell, or what one might call an "ozone smell."

So, concepts such as "coincidence" and "chance" are applied to these seemingly psychic or supernatural occurrences.

Granted, they are probably random occurrences, but the coincidence bothers me.

These occurrences provoked anti-French demonstrations in many parts of Italy, and revived the chronic Italian rancour against France.

For the earlier period their authorities were state and family records - above all, the annales maximi (or annales pontificum), the official chronicle of Rome, in which the notable occurrences of each year from the foundation of the city were set down by the pontifex maximus.

Their long lists of the occurrences of words and forms fixed with accuracy the present (Masoretic) text, which they had produced, and were invaluable to subsequent lexicographers, while their system of vowel-points and accents not only gives us the pronunciation and manner of reading traditional about the 7th century A.D., but frequently serves also the purpose of an explanatory commentary.

Between these two occurrences came the disastrous decline in the value of grain in the autumn of 1894, when the weekly average price of English wheat fell to the record minimum of 17s.

Peckham, but others have held that it is of exclusively animal origin, a view supported by such occurrences as those in the orthoceratities of the Trenton limestone, and by the experiments of C. Engler, who obtained a liquid like crude petroleum by the distillation of menhaden (fish) oil.

On the first night of the debate Lord Howick, afterwards Lord Grey, who had been undersecretary for the Colonies, and who opposed the resolutions as proceeding too gradually towards abolition, cited certain occurrences on Sir John Gladstone's plantation in Demerara to illustrate his contention that the system of slave-labour in the West Indies was attended by great mortality among the slaves.

But the emperor regarded it merely as "an unfortunate accident," nothing more, and the advance in two wings and a reserve continued, undisturbed by such occurrences.

In France, Colbert, in 1670, ordered the extension to the rural communes of the system which had for many years been in force in Paris of registering and periodically publishing the domestic occurrences of the locality.

The miracles performed by Jesus were interpreted in a spiritual sense, not as real material occurrences; the Church was the in terior spiritual church in which all held equal share.

The ungrateful judge, only roused to further fury by these occurrences, caused the execution of Januarius by the sword to be forthwith carried out.

African pipes is quite different from the occurrences in alluvial deposits which have been described above.

In calculating the percentages of forenoon and afternoon occurrences half the entries under noon and midnight were assigned to each half of the day.

An excess of evening over morning occurrences is also the rule, and it is not infrequently more pronounced than in Table III.

It is the same with other allusions in the Meccan suras to occurrences whose chronology can be partially ascertained.

It has devised a scheme, founded on that for the Latin Thesaurus of the Berlin Academy, which almost mechanically sorts the whole number of occurrences of every word in any text examined.

The treasury could not afford to lose the land-tax, which it would naturally forfeit by the first two of the above occurrences, and we read of various expedients being tried to prevent this loss.

The roots of this eschatological fancy are to be sought perhaps still deeper in a purely mythological and speculative expectation of a battle at the end of days between God and the devil, which has no reference whatever to historical occurrences.

The older incantations, associated with Ea, were re-edited so as to give to Marduk the supreme power over demons, witches and sorcerers; the hymns and lamentations composed for the cult of Bel, Shamash and of Adad were transformed into paeans and appeals to Marduk, while the ancient myths arising in the various religious and political centres underwent a similar process of adaptation to changed conditions, and as a consequence their original meaning was obscured by the endeavour to assign all mighty deeds and acts, originally symbolical of the change of seasons or of occurrences in nature, to the patron deity of Babylon - the supreme head of the entire Babylonian pantheon.

On the other hand, it would be absurd to imagine that the combats with Grendel and his mother and with the fiery dragon can be exaggerated representations of actual occurrences.

For him there is only the One Absolute Being, the one reality that is all in all; whilst all the phenomenal existences and occurrences that crowd upon our senses are nothing more than an illusion of the individual soul estranged for a time from its divine source - an illusion only to be dispelled in the end by the soul's fuller knowledge of its own true nature and its being one with the eternal fountain of blissful being.

Among the more notable occurrences which followed were a three days battle, fought near Echmiadzin, between the crown prince, Abbas Mirza, and General Zizianov, in which the Persians suffered much from the enemys artillery, but would not admit they were defeated; unsuccessful attempts on the part of the Russian commander to get possession of Erivan; and a surprise, in camp, of the shahs forces, which caused them to disperse, and necessitated the kings own presence with reinforcements.

Among the remarkable occurrences may be noted the murder at Teheran in 1828 of M - Grebayadov, the Russian envoy, whose conduct in forcibly retaining two women of Erivan provoked the interference of the mullas and people.

Omens and portents, he explained, are the natural symptoms of certain occurrences.

It is indeed highly suggestive that just those occurrences which are the most remote from the assumed standpoint of the writer are the most correctly stated, while the nearer we approach the author's supposed time, the more inaccurate does he become.

Leverrier, still ignorant of these occurrences, presented on the 31st of August 1846 a third memoir, giving for the first time the mass and orbit of the new body.

From the earliest occurrences of the word it is clear that it was used as a national name not only in India but also in Bactria and Persia (in Sanskrit drya- and drya-, in Zend airya-, in Old Persian ariya-).

The chief occurrences of metallic iron are as minute spiculae disseminated through basaltic rocks, as at Giant's Causeway and in the Auvergne, and, more particularly, in meteorites (q.v.).

In instruction he gives the first place to " that which may direct us to heaven," and the second to " the study of prudence, or discreet conduct, and management of ourselves in the several occurrences of our lives, which most assists our quiet prosperous passage through this present life."

Any occurrences in these distant parts of the world are known to him in a surprisingly short time.

The only important occurrences of coal in the south are in eastern Tipperary, near Killenaule, and in the Leinster coalfield (counties Kilkenny and Carlow and Queen's County), where there is a high synclinal field, including Lower and Middle Coal-Measures, and resembling in structure the Forest of Dean area in England.

Our first question will be, Is there any stage of human society, and of the human intellect, in which facts that appear to us to be monstrous and irrational are accepted as ordinary occurrences of every day life ?

A levy of 300,000 men was ordered; a Committee of General Security was charged with the search for suspects; and thenceforward military occurrences called forth parliamentary crises and popular upheavals.

Further, by means of such motion these actual occurrences, which are in themselves timeless, fall for an observer in a definite time - a time which becomes continuous through the partial coincidence of events.

In that early age of culture known as the "nomadic" stage, which under normal conditions precedes the "agricultural" stage, the moon cult is even more prominent than sun worship, and with the moon and sun cults thus furnished by the "popular" faith it was a natural step for the priests, who correspond to the "scientists" of a later day, to perfect a theory of a complete accord between phenomena observed in the heavens and occurrences on earth.

The movements of the sun, moon and five planets were regarded as representing the activity of the five gods in question, together with the moon-god Sin and the sun-god Shamash, in preparing the occurrences on earth.

Thus if on a certain occasion the rise of the new moon in a cloudy sky was followed by victory over an enemy or by abundant rain, the sign in question was thus proved to be a favourable one and its recurrence would be regarded as a good omen, though the prognostication would not necessarily be limited to the one or the other of those occurrences, but might be extended to apply to other circumstances.

In the first place, the movements and position of the heavenly bodies point to such occurrences as are of public import and affect the general welfare.

Before he was able to complete his preparations for this, two unforeseen occurrences completely altered the European situation, and caused the conflict to be postponed for three years.

It did not exist in Ireland in 1617, when Fynes Morison wrote his Itinerary, but it had appeared there within a hundred years later, when Swift mentions its occurrences in his Journal to Stella, 9th July 1711.

The principal occurrences have been the final compounding of the old state debt at fifty cents on the dollar in 1882, the rapid growth of cities, and the increased importance' of mining and manufacturing.

Common minerals from different occurrences have been shown to have distinctive PCL spectra.

You must know a fair amount about Greek dialects and morphological rules to retrieve the differently inflected occurrences of a " word.

It will then retrieve occurrences of entity ONE_B subject again to the profile passed down from the parent component.

Glasgow scientists have been examining the tsunami deposits in a bid to more accurately predict future occurrences.

Caution Deleting one occurrence of a repeating event deletes all occurrences.

Many anonymous letters are just one-time occurrences and are immediately thrown away and hopefully forgotten.

We shall be left with a very persistent range of strange occurrences which even the MOD now shows signs of uneasily recognizing.

Irrespective of the intentionality of such a happening, the fact is such occurrences certainly do take place and on a fairly quotidian basis.

The set contains the patterns, the extended substructures are possible occurrences, extended with labels that mark their positions in the original object.

Both charities seek to find out all they can about diseases in young or even unborn babies, to help prevent similar occurrences.

C. Biese (31) found that out of 255 observed occurrences of negative potential, I 06 took place in the absence of rain or snow.

The cult once introduced would tend to persevere, and the development of astrological science culminating in a calendar and in a system of interpretation of the movements and occurrences in the starry heavens would be an important factor in maintaining the position of Sin in the pantheon.

Nevertheless public confidence in the efficacy of the parliamentary system and in the honesty of politicians was seriously diminished by these unsavoury occurrences, which, in combination with the acquittal of all the defendants in the Banca Romana trial, and the abandonment of the proceedings against Giolitti, reinforced to an alarming degree the propaganda of the revolutionary parties.

Under such guides as these the lower clergy erred deplorably, and drunkenness, gross immorality, brawling and manslaughter were common occurrences in the lives of the parish priests.

The principal incidents in its political history arose out of the occurrences of 1843 (see Spain, History), in connexion with which the town received the title of city, and Generals Zurbano and Prim were made counts of Reus.

The chief sources for Bishop Hurd's biography are "Dates of some occurrences in the life of the author," written by himself and prefixed to vol.

It was as if the minds of these morally exhausted men found relief in everyday, commonplace occurrences.

A preliminary investigation produces a list of areas ranked according to the number of occurrences.

Rare plants, such as touch-me-not balsam Impatiens noli-tangere and alpine enchanter's-nightshade Circaea alpina, also have important British occurrences here.

You can therefore use the transliteration operator to count the number of occurrences of certain characters.

No More Diaper Rash-While implying that babies who use cloth diapers never experience diaper rash is a bit of an exaggeration, the soft cotton material is more breathable, making the occurrences of diaper rash less frequent.

This is not to say that parents with baby cams will have their eyes riveted to the display every second, but the chances of a parent foreseeing dangerous occurrences are notably higher with a camera feature.

Fur loss seems to be one of the most common occurrences in elderly felines.

These may include new annual charges, hefty fees associated with over-the-limit occurrences and even a high interest rate after your introductory period ends.

Although there are steps you can take to reduce your risk of being a victim, there is no way to stop all occurrences.

These occurrences can affect profits and/or losses all over the world at any given time.

Besides major world occurrences, the fluctuations in the value of currency depend on a number of factors, including many that are purely economic.

The XT's flash rates to about 13 at ISO 100 and features improvements such as more clearance above the lens, reduction in "red-eye" occurrences and the ability to adjust different flash elements independently of one another.

However, these are normally isolated experiences; frequent occurrences are indicative of an anger management problem.

Keep track of your migraine occurrences before and after taking Adderall.

The Duchess of Cambridge is the last person you'd expect a wardrobe malfunction from, but this incident proves that no celebrity is immune from such occurrences.

The plot of this made for TV movie revolves around strange occurrences at the local library, where books are seemingly coming to life.

Heartworm is carried by mosquitoes and fleas in tropical and semi-tropical climates such as the southern United States, but occurrences are not limited to those areas.

Activities, foods and other occurrences that happen during the daytime may be causing sleep problems at night.

A dream analyzer promises to help you unravel the mysteries of the occurrences, and this can be very appealing for people who have sleep problems associated with dreams.

Once he's mastered geography, broaden his knowledge and fancy his curiosity by exploring the world of volcanoes, earthquakes and other natural occurrences that have shaped both our planet and the continental plates.

Once more, Anna Faris returns in the role of Cindy Campbell, the bimbette who always seems to attract supernatural occurrences.

It includes a combination of footage from actual occurrences and interviews that were conducted specifically for the film.

Those occurrences that modern science is unable to account for and explain in terms of the natural world are relegated to the realm of "paranormal".

Although the family history is fairly innocuous, the house itself still provides many tales of visitations and supernatural occurrences.

Occurrences include doors opening and closing by themselves, lights flickering and the sounds of voices heard at night.

Wyatt House, situated in Ithaca, is the site of several occurrences of a supernatural nature.

Examples of such occurrences include rapping, hammering, a piano being played and, most disturbingly, the smell of rotting flesh.

These common occurrences increase your chances for a ghostly encounter during your stay.

For anyone interested in strange and unexplained occurrences that occur throughout the world, the Bermuda Triangle unsolved mysteries are a popular and intriguing collection of such amazing stories.

Many people report sightings of spirits or unusual and unexplained occurrences in the house particularly centered around Sarah Winchester's bedroom, the Hall of Fires and the Seance Room.

You can read a brief history on each character, including major occurrences throughout their "life" on a particular soap.

Even small occurrences, such as actors quitting suddenly or taking emergency leave, can change the entire outcome of a story.

While the serious dangers to body piercing may not be common occurrences, there are also smaller complications that can arise that can make a person quite uncomfortable.

While temporary tattoo art is considered safer than the use of invasive needles, allergic reactions, and body paint that fades too quickly are unfortunately common occurrences.

Given the dramatic rise in autism occurrences in recent years, learning the basic autism disorder characteristics is a wise precaution for every parent to take.

This can cause a coma or even death, and while these are rare occurrences, they are risks that can accompany this diet.

United Kingdom homeowners often turn to Tesco home insurance to cover their homes in the event of fire damage, flood damage, theft, and other unfortunate occurrences.

Trip cancellation covers emergencies, illness and weather related occurrences that postpone your trip.

Even if you do not live in a high-risk area, flood insurance should still be considered a necessary expense to cover your home and belongings from unexpected occurrences.

Occurrences that are commonly covered within a basic policy include fire damage and damage caused by lightening.

This kind of business insurance is what you'll rely on to replace items that you lose as a result of covered occurrences, which typically include burglary or robbery, fire, or weather disasters.

Reinsurance helps to spread out the financial burden that these occurrences place on the insurance company so that it can pay out all of the claims it's required to without suffering financially.

The establishment of these standards helps to ensure that these independent car insurance brokers are bound by rules and regulations that will help to prevent occurrences of fraud.

Discovery Channel show Ghost Lab follows a paranormal investigation company as they explore otherworldly occurrences.

What editing does not do is add events or occurrences that did not happen during taping.

Regular use of acne fighting products may help alleviate existing breakouts and prevent future occurrences.

In reality, however, a website cannot be truly overpopulated unless the number of registered users reaches a point that causes detrimental occurrences to the rest of the members.

Google takes your keyword density into account, which is measured by the total number of occurrences divided by the total number of words on the page.

One of the most significant occurrences of throwback uniforms in the NFL occurred during the 2009 season.

This function replaces all occurrences of the specific string within the document.

This function looks at the string, 'The sky is dark today.' and replaces all occurrences of the word "dark."

The proportion of occurrences of negative potential under a clear sky was much above its average in autumn.

In this list, while certain occurrences in rocks of undetermined age in little-known regions have been omitted, many of those included are of merely academic interest, and a still larger number indicate fields supplying at present only local needs.

Both sides concur in the position assumed by Darwin, that the word "chance" in such a phrase as "chance variation" does not mean that the occurrences are independent of natural causation and so far undetermined, but covers in the first place our ignorance of the exact causation.

The essential feature of this astral theology is the assumption of a close link between the movements going on in the heavens and occurrences on earth, which led to identifying the gods and goddesses with heavenly bodies - planets and stars, besides sun and moon - and to assigning the seats of all the deities in the heavens.

The popular factor is the belief in the influence exerted by the movements of the heavenly bodies on occurrences on earth - a belief naturally suggested by the dependence of life, vegetation and guidance upon the two great luminaries.

Starting with this belief the priests built up the theory of the close correspondence between occurrences on earth and phenomena in the heavens.

To read the signs of the heavens was therefore to understand the meaning of occurrences on earth, and with this accomplished it was also possible to foretell what events were portended by the position and relationship to one another of sun, moon, planets and certain stars.

Myths that symbolized changes in season or occurrences in nature were projected on the heavens, which were mapped out to correspond to the divisions of the earth.

So completely did this system in the course of time sway men's minds that the cult, from being an expression of animistic beliefs, took on the colour derived from the "astral" interpretation of occurrences and doctrines.

In another division of the religious literature of Babylonia which is largely represented in Assur-bani-pal's collection - the myths and legends - tales which originally symbolized the change of seasons, or in which historical occurrences are overcast with more or less copious admixture of legend and myth, were transferred to the heavens, and so it happens that creation myths, and the accounts of wanderings and adventures of heroes of the past, are referred to movements among the planets and stars as well as to occurrences or supposed occurrences on earth.

Dates were assigned even to mythological occurrences, because Varro believed in the theory of Euhemerus, that all the beings worshipped as gods had once lived as men.

These occurrences of granite, with that of Leinster, in connexion with the folding of the Silurian strata, make it highly probable that many of the granites of the Dalradian areas, which have a similar trend and which have invaded the schists so intimately as to form with them a composite gneiss, date also from a post-Silurian epoch of earth-movement.

Everything would be better made because the best way to make a thing could be multiplied across all occurrences of the thing.

But the liveliest attention was attracted by occurrences quite apart from, and unconnected with, the battle.

I see only a coincidence of occurrences such as happens with all the phenomena of life, and I see that however much and however carefully I observe the hands of the watch, and the valves and wheels of the engine, and the oak, I shall not discover the cause of the bells ringing, the engine moving, or of the winds of spring.

No command ever appears spontaneously, or itself covers a whole series of occurrences; but each command follows from another, and never refers to a whole series of events but always to one moment only of an event.

The third part of John's history, which is a detailed account of the ecclesiastical events which happened in 571-585, as well as of some earlier occurrences, survives in a fairly complete state in Add.

The development from the angular to the curved shape of S may be seen in its occurrences on the early cippus found in the Roman Forum in 1899.

Their chief occurrences are in the districts of Witwatersrand, Heidelberg, Klerksdorp and Venterskroon.

Walther is not an historical figure, although the legend undoubtedly represents typical occurrences of the migration period, such as the detention and flight of hostages of noble family from the court of the Huns, and the rescue of captive maidens by abduction.

The details of deaths in the year preceding the census, for instance, are called for, there being no registration of such occurrences in the rural tracts.

In both these occurrences the evidence is certainly not sufficient to establish the presence of an original matrix.

In both occurrences, however, there is still the possibility that the eclogite or the basalt is not the original matrix, but may have caught up the already formed diamond from some other matrix.

The writer in the Saxon abbey of Corvey, or in the Franconian abbey of Fulda, knows only about events which happened near his own doors; he records, it is true, occurrences which rumour has brought to his ears, but in general he is trustworthy only for the history of his own neighborhood.

Before relating, however, the exact occurrences which produced its defeat, it is necessary to retrace our steps and describe the policy which it had pursued in internal matters during the six years in which it had been in power.