(1) Even one destroyed life – and a 20-year sentence for a 39-year old filmmaker surely means the cruellest of all individual punishments – will lead to an even greater punishment and retaliation that may befall on the whole country.
(2) How could I have imagined the fate that would befall this precious boy?
(3) He wrote in his last book, The Unfinished Life: An Odyssey of Love and Cancer , of deliberately trying to compress what should have been long leisurely years of fatherhood into a few months: one daughter needing to understand where he got his beliefs and ideas, while the other "asked me to write down every likely eventuality that might befall her, and supply a satisfactory answer", as if to keep him always by her side.
(4) Perhaps less obvious, this knowledge is essential to recognize and effectively support claims for workers' compensation, claims that may be the only means of redress for the tragic socioeconomic difficulties befalling those who are occupationally impaired.
(5) And only by moving to this level do we avoid the vicious circularity that could befall the use of recursive systems.
(6) This may befall the radiologist who is asked to provide thrombolytic treatment in a heparinized patient.
(7) A similar fate befalls B&Q's Christmas ad, which opts for a fey, irritating cover version of Our House by another breathy chanteuse.
(8) His was the third suspicious death in the past five years to befall a businessman from the former USSR in the affluent crescent of suburbia just beyond the M25 in Surrey and Berkshire.
(9) Still a 14-year-old child, he was then forced to become a military conscript – a fate that normally befalls Eritreans in their last year of school, and continues for the rest of their life.
(10) It now befalls president-elect Buhari to govern in a democratic spirit, strengthening public institutions and ensuring that forthcoming elections at local or parliamentary level do not revert to the old ways.
(11) Renal cell carcinoma, which generally arises at a later age, may befall the patient who is successfully treated for the tumors that occurred earlier.
(12) The aspiration or ingestion of a foreign body into the upper aerodigestive tract is a common accident that befalls children and adults alike.
(13) You have to learn to put one foot in front of the other … You also have to look at what accidents might befall you … You have to have stamina because it could be a long route.” Barnier is from the Savoy Alps, the most mountainous region of France.
(14) "); the idea that we should be held to account, as feminists, for every possible ill that could befall the modern woman ("There's a whole generation of people who've confused 'feminism' with 'anything to do with women'") – all of that is just hassle in disguise.
(15) • This latest crisis to befall Rakhine state, which has seen 200 killed and 115,000 displaced – most of them Rohingya – tests Burma's recent transition to democracy and its commitment to establishing full human rights for those within its borders.
(16) Nigeria in my experience has never been so divided, so polarised by an unthinking government hell-bent on ruling and stealing for ever whatever befalls the country.
(17) A third - all the way from New Zealand - pronounced: "Another catastrophe befalls the country."
(18) Because of the complexity of the interactions that befall monocytes during an inflammatory response, it seems likely that expression of adhesion receptors on monocytes would be precisely regulated.
(19) The belongings were supposed to be removed as quickly as possible, so that newcomers to the camp would not suspect the fate that was about to befall them.
(20) Ian Ayre, the Liverpool managing director, cancelled a scheduled four-day trip to the Far East and Australia, where he was going to promote the club's pre-season tour, to deal with the latest controversy to befall the 26-year-old.
Occur
Definition:
(v. i.) To meet; to clash.
(v. i.) To go in order to meet; to make reply.
(v. i.) To meet one's eye; to be found or met with; to present itself; to offer; to appear; to happen; to take place; as, I will write if opportunity occurs.
(v. i.) To meet or come to the mind; to suggest itself; to be presented to the imagination or memory.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
(2) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(3) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(4) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
(5) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
(6) Such an increase in antibody binding occurred simultaneously with an increase in the fluidity of surface lipid regions, as monitored by fluorescence depolarization of 1-(trimethylammoniophenyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene.
(7) As far as acrophase table is concerned for all enzymes and fractions the acrophase occurred during the night.
(8) Electronmicroscopical investigations have revealed that, under normal conditions, a minor vesicular transfer of intravenously injected peroxidase occurs across the endothelium in segments of arterioles, capillaries and venules, especially in arterioles with a diameter about 15-30 mu.
(9) No significant change occurred in the bacterial population of our hospital unit during the period of the study (more than 3 years).
(10) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(11) The secondary leukemia that occurred in these patients could be distinguished from the secondary leukemia that occurs after treatment with alkylating agents by the following: a shorter latency period; a predominance of monocytic or myelomonocytic features; and frequent cytogenetic abnormalities involving 11q23.
(12) An inflammatory process than occurs in the airways that is characterized by an influx of eosinophils and neutrophils into the airway epithelium and bronchial fluids.
(13) A clinical and microbiologic response occurred when anticoagulation therapy with heparin was added to the treatment regimen.
(14) Infection with opportunistic organisms, either singly or in combination, is known to occur in immunocompromised patients.
(15) A commensurate rise in both smoking and adenocarcinoma has occurred in the Far East where the incidence rate (40%) is twice that of North America or Europe.
(16) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
(17) The role of O2 free radicals in the reduction of sarcolemmal Na+-K+-ATPase, which occurs during reperfusion of ischemic heart, was examined in isolated guinea pig heart using exogenous scavengers of O2 radicals and an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase.
(18) Angle closure glaucoma is a well-known complication of scleral buckling and it is of particular interest when it occurs in eyes with previously normal angles.
(19) The concentrations of five normally occurring protease inhibitors in serum and synovial fluid were compared in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthrosis, and normal controls.
(20) A strong block to the elongation of nascent RNA transcripts by RNA polymerase II occurs in the 5' part of the mammalian c-fos proto-oncogene.