• However, the life of the deceased should be celebrated "at some social occasion before or after the funeral", the Archbishop recommends.

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  • This will also encourage groups of friends to make shopping at your business a social occasion, and help you market those charming last minute gifts and clever stocking stuffers everyone needs.

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  • The idea of actually having a tea party, at least at home, has long been relegated to the world of little girls, as a social occasion with dolls, stuffed toys and perhaps a semicooperative pet or two.

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  • But I think that for the broader purpose of the work that needs to be done in a bipartisan way in Washington, this social occasion is a good thing because establishing -- spending a number of hours together in that kind of environment I think can only help improve the chances of bipartisan cooperation.

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  • Even so, he says, he was surprised, since he had thought of his lunch with Kawamoto as a social occasion. (Kawamoto has refused, on the ground of confidentiality, to discuss the meal or her sources for the story, except to say that she has multiple sources at Hewlett-Packard.) In any case, on balance Keyworth was pleased.

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  • The use of the Twitter website, an increasingly popular social network, has on occasion proved problematic for cricket administrators.

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  • The local hospital, where I received attention on more than one occasion, never reported anything untoward to the local police or the equivalent of social services.

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  • But today, whenever there is an unanticipated short silence -- cell service goes temporarily dead, e-mail or text messaging or social networks cease to function because of an electronic burp somewhere -- it gives us the occasion to reflect upon how quickly we have gotten used to the new way, with our messages coming in and going out continually and seamlessly, day and night.

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  • This year, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) is marking the occasion with a variety of activities whose main purpose is to promote tolerance, equity and social justice through access to quality basic education and lifelong learning.

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