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How to use the word occurred in a Sentence? Page #17

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We know there are various versions of what occurred during this event: most inaccurate, some inflammatory, to that end, we want to do what we can to lay out an honest and unfiltered view of what happened and how it happened.

Greg Bretzking

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Both deaths occurred within hours of each other under circumstances that have led investigators to presume they were both self-inflicted, no motives have been identified and no evidence of foul play has so far been detected.

Murphy Police

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The university is also reaching out to our campus community and the greater New River Valley community who may be affected by the events that have occurred over the several days. we have some very wounded folks in this community and and please show them some respect.

Blacksburg Police Chief Anthony Wilson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is only a question of time before the Maldives witnesses an incident comparable to the tragedy that occurred on the beaches of Tunisia last year.

Mohamed Nasheed

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This case is not just about an accident that occurred in Oklahoma in 2014, this is about the conduct of a company over a period of time that spanned more than a decade.

Robert Hilliard

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There's nothing that's occurred in the last 24 hours that has caused the United States government to change our assessment of North Korea's technical and military capabilities.

Press Secretary Josh Earnest

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Look, as a legal matter, the question is straight-forward in law that the child of a U.S. citizen born abroad is a natural-born citizen, people will continue to make political noise about it but as a legal matter it is straight-forward. I would note that it has occurred many times in history.

Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Even if patients believe they understand what occurred during their hospitalization and the instructions they are to follow upon dismissal, they can become confused after they leave the hospital environment as their memory can be clouded by medications they were administered, the stress of hospitalization, and, particularly within our patient population, traumatic brain injuries such as concussions.

Martin Zielinski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm heartsick that this tragedy occurred at all, much less during the time in which Jeremiah Smith should have been incarcerated.

Corrections Secretary Dan Pacholke

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We took action including against management at the plant and then we started remediation action, and suspended all activity there, while the remediation was going on, the FDA inspection occurred, and obviously those things which were there were found.

Pankaj Patel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A lot of the growth that you've seen in New Hampshire over the past 20, 30 years has occurred in these two counties, which in some ways represent the outer suburban ring of metropolitan Boston.

Dante Scala

Found on CNN
8 years ago

With all the things that have occurred in this country in the past couple of years, we want to assure people that this is an isolated, specific event, not of any random nature.

Jeff Keith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The fact that this outbreak has occurred further highlights the dire hygiene and living conditions in the camp and a lack of proper long-term investment in sanitation services.

Charles Gaudry

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Whether it was the right decision or not, history will determine that, there’s no question in my mind that it hurt the credibility of the president’s word when this occurred.

Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Investigators will work to identify the person or group responsible, the motivation and whether religious bias was a factor, all evidence will be reviewed by state and federal prosecutors to determine whether a violation under federal civil rights statutes occurred. The FBI is committed to ensure law-abiding citizens are protected and to deter those who would threaten them.

The FBI

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Long ago, we apologized for the conduct that occurred, immediately took steps to pay compensation to those affected, and updated and instituted substantial reforms in our business to ensure our governance is second to none, following a thorough and exhaustive investigation, and after many long trials, enquiries and proceedings, this matter has been concluded and the right decision has been taken.

News UK

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

At this stage we do not yet know why this terrible event occurred, it is possible that this was terrorist related, but we don't know. It's also possible that this was was workplace related.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Senator Rubio emphatically supported Hillary Clinton in toppling (Muammar) Qaddafi in Libya. I think that made no sense, the terrorist attack that occurred in Benghazi was a direct result of that massive foreign policy blunder.

Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The Russians left Afghanistan 25 years ago. [Obama has] been in office seven years. Seventy-six percent of the combat deaths in Afghanistan have occurred under Obama, and there's little doubt that our position in Afghanistan today is weaker than seven years ago when he came into office, so when he's trying to instruct Putin on national interests and on quagmires, he's on rather thin ground.

Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

What we’ve asked the Justice Department to do is take a fresh look, a comprehensive look, into what has occurred to basically leave no stone unturned into investigating possible violations, and if any are found to take the appropriate action as they would in any other matter.

American Bar Association

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If there had not been a Claudette Colvin, who did what Claudette Colvin did, a lot of other events would not have occurred, it was a matter of each one building upon each other, and the rest is history.

Fred Gray

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Major threats that have occurred since 9?11, not necessarily all, but the major individuals that have been stopped, those individuals that have come out of refugee programs, that's what I've been told.

Robert Bentley

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You see by pushing the bomber away from the formation, the explosion occurred farther from our forces and on the ground instead of the open air, had both bombs gone off as planned, who knows how many could have been killed.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Nobody disagrees with you that we wish this day had never occurred and that Omaree as a child would not have suffered as he did, certainly, his mom will be held accountable for her part, but we're not here for her part, we're here about your part.

District Court Judge Stan Whitaker

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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