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On and occasion
On occasion it produces extraordinary novelties.
On the second occasion it took prayers as well as reason to dissuade the soldiers from their purpose.
On the occasion of his 1922 indictment the $10,000 bond was furnished by an alderman, and the charge was nolle prossed.
On the third occasion -- another Big Four summit session at Paris a year ago -- there was no problem of an illusory `` spirit ''.
A second tale shows still more clearly the kind of powers a truly spiritual monk could possess: `` On one occasion Yang Shan ( Kyo-zan ) saw a stranger monk flying through the air.
On the occasion of a pestilence in the 430s BCE, Apollo's first temple at Rome was established in the Flaminian fields, replacing an older cult site there known as the " Apollinare ".
On one occasion, Tiberius ordered a guard to flog her.
On one occasion, Galba's mother-in-law gave Agrippina, in a whole bevy of married women, a public reprimand and a slap in the face.
On one occasion he was separated from Ursicinus and took refuge in Amida during the siege of the city, which was then attacked by the Sassanid king Shapur II ; he barely escaped with his life.
On occasion, even the soldiers of national militaries are forced to adapt their civilian-type vehicles for combat use, often using improvised armor and scrounged weapons.
On occasion SPAAGs have been used as very effective direct fire weapons against infantry, for example by American forces during late World War II, in Korea against mass infantry assault, and extensively during the Vietnam War, where for example the U. S. M42 Duster SPAAG ( based on a light tank ) was employed purely for this purpose.
On one occasion, when his senior colleagues, Ḥiyya b. Abba, Rav Ammi, and Assi, had punished a certain woman, and feared the wrath of the proconsul, Abbahu was deputed to intercede for them.
On one occasion he ordered some Samaritan wine, but subsequently learning that there were no longer any strict observers of the dietary laws among the Samaritans, with the assistance of his colleagues, Ḥiyya b. Abba, Rav Ammi, and Rav Assi, he investigated the report, and, ascertaining it to be well founded, did not hesitate to declare the Samaritans, for all ritualistic purposes, Gentiles ( Yer.
On these occasions the reliable and yet unimaginative tactics Charles was fond of were not sufficient, except on one occasion at Aspern-Essling, to defeat the unpredictable Corsican.
On the Coast, rainfall, sometimes relentless heavy rain, dominates in winter because of consistent barrages of cyclonic low-pressure systems from the North Pacific, but on occasion ( and not every winter ) heavy snowfalls and below freezing temperatures arrive when modified arctic air reaches coastal areas, typically for short periods.
On more than one occasion, Judge told the writers that one of their ideas for an episode of King of the Hill would work well for Beavis and Butt-Head ; eventually he concluded, " Maybe we should just actually make some good Beavis and Butt-Head episodes.
:" On one occasion lie himself was sitting in an assembly of people, a stage having been arranged for a council on an open plain.
On Halgaver Moor ( Goats ' Moor ) near Bodmin there was once an annual carnival in July which was on one occasion attended by King Charles II.
On occasion, strong winds from the northeast produce violent sandstorms.
On the first occasion he went to Rome and received from Pope Gregory many sacred relics ( Stokes, Apennines, 132 ).
On one occasion in 1709, for instance, Frederick IV of Denmark, also paid them a visit and he was greeted as their King.
On one occasion, the show featured Martha Stewart as an in-studio guest, whom the Magliozzis twice during the segment referred to as " Margaret ".
On one occasion, crew members ransacked the trading ship Mary and tortured several of its crew members while Kidd and the other captain, Thomas Parker, conversed privately in Kidd's cabin.
On one occasion, Cyril sent the grammaticus Hierax to secretly discover the content of an edict that Orestes was to promulgate on the mimes shows, which attracted great crowds.
On occasion, the names of characters themselves actually seem to have been altered: the spelling of the name of Homer ’ s character Polydamas, Pouludamas, appears to be an alternative rendering of the metrically unviable Poludamas (“ subduer of many ”).

On and weather
On the opposite extreme, summers in the Southern Interior valleys are hot ; for example in Osoyoos the July Maximum averages, hot weather sometimes moves towards the Coast or to the far north of the province.
On at least two occasions ( 255 and 253 BC ) whole fleets were destroyed in bad weather ; the disaster off Camarina in 255 BC counted two hundred seventy ships and over one hundred thousand men lost, the greatest single loss in history.
On that day, weather conditions were ideal and the fleet was ready, but the Yenihan regiment earmarked for the operation failed to arrive on time.
On the high mountains, such as Mount Kenya, Mount Elgon and Kilimanjaro, the weather can become bitterly cold for most of the year.
On an everyday basis, people use weather forecasts to determine what to wear on a given day.
On that day, both Sherman and Wilkins had recorded that cold weather had delayed their jobs, they both had witnessed that someone's skin had peeled off their finger, they both recorded that they had drunk alcohol with friends and witnessed boxes of cigars being brought and both recorded that they had experienced a toothache.
On Earth, common weather phenomena include wind, cloud, rain, snow, fog and dust storms.
On an everyday basis, people use weather forecasts to determine what to wear on a given day.
On the afternoon of August 16, the weather cleared, and Stark ordered his men to be ready to attack.
On the day of the tour most Frisians and Dutchmen either stay home to watch it on television, or find a place along the route to cheer on the skaters-in February 2012, Friesland hotels were fully booked and expecting between 1. 5 and 2 million visitors in expectation of a tour before it was announced, as the weather seemed suitable.
On May 1, 1871, the Government of Canada established the Meteorological Service of Canada by providing a $ 5000 grant to Professor G. T. Kingston of the University of Toronto to establish a network of weather observations.
On dark nights they often perch through the middle hours and, particularly if the weather is bad, may hunt by daylight instead.
On weather radar, storms are tracked by using a prominent feature and tracking it from scan to scan.
On weather maps, the surface position of the cold front is marked with the symbol of a blue line of triangles / spikes ( pips ) pointing in the direction of travel, and it is placed at the leading edge of the cooler air mass.
On weather maps, the surface location of a warm front is marked with a red line of half circles pointing in the direction of travel.
On an everyday basis, people use weather forecasts to determine what to wear on a given day.
On October 30, 2009, The Weather Channel, in a move deemed controversial by many longtime viewers, began airing weather related movies on Friday nights.
On May 20, 2010, Dish Network announced that it was dropping the Weather Channel at midnight ET that day in favor of its own similar weather information channel, The Weather Cast.
* TS Eliot draws from this myth in The Dry Salvages: " And the ragged rock in the restless waters ,/ Waves wash over it, fogs conceal it ;/ On a halcyon day it is merely a monument ,/ In navigable weather it is always a seamark / To lay a course by: but in the sombre season / Or the sudden fury, is what it always was.
On December 23, 1948 an Iberia Airlines Douglas DC-3 crashed in bad weather near Gandesa killing all 27 occupants.
On a day with beautiful weather, Hedinn goes for a walk in the woods and, like back in Serkland, loses his men and finds himself in an open meadow.
On 7 June, he surprised it when resupplying on the English coast ; it was only saved from a severe defeat in the Battle of Solebay by a sudden turning of the wind, causing De Ruyter to lose the weather gage.
* Extreme weather: On the seventh day of heavy rains, the peak of 100-year flood of the Vltava River reaches Prague, and the Kampa district is submerged under several yards of water, as well as the Prague Zoo, killing an elephant, five rhinoceros, a lion, a gorilla and 80 birds, and allowing five seals to escape.
On January 13, 1885, he walked about three-quarters of a mile in minus 30 ˚ F weather from the Front Street depot to the Omaha depot in Mankato, Minnesota.
On April 2, 2006 a severe weather system passed through Dyer County, producing tornadoes that killed 16 in the county and 24 in Tennessee.

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