How To Use Happening In A Sentence

  • One of a phases is a brand new SSC, though there is a lot happening behind a scenes. Student development student staff meeting june 23rd 2009
  • They are happening in a system that's constantly working to full capacity, massively understaffed and unable to cope with the impact of cuts to social care. Times, Sunday Times
  • Over the years the area has struggled economically but what is happening there at the moment is quite astonishing. The Sun
  • We had the tradition of preserving food and drink for long time consumption, by watching when the leaves began to fall and when there were changes happening to Nature.
  • One of my dazed wits tried to tell me the odds against this actually happening.
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  • I can see taha many of the comments try to justify what happening in Gaza by other crimes committed in the human history. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • There were hosts on it and about it, and then Dr Duthoit forgot all about what we call the realities and facts of life, forgot that this sort of thing does not happen, and watched what was happening. Dr Duthoit’s Vision
  • And the chances of that happening on the Down Under tour have narrowed due to England's injury crisis.
  • In order to prevent this happening, most recipes suggest ‘washing’ the sides of the pan with a wet pastry brush to brush down any undissolved sugar; easier still is to put a lid on the pan and let steam do the trick.
  • We should take a look at what is happening in our own backyard before criticizing what is taking place in other countries.
  • What is happening at Widnes was held up as the model for future logistics hubs across the entire UK. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nevertheless, we will press on and as I said we will continue to keep you right up to date with what is happening.
  • It seems easier for many people to pretend it is not happening. Times, Sunday Times
  • I myself am suffering from having a paucity of exciting ideas / happenings to post about.
  • Things will happen. You can't stop them from happening, but you can control your reaction from making things worse. React positively. Live happily. RVM 
  • Although, the suburbs and exurbs are definitely where the population growth and hence the representation in government are happening.
  • Now the opposite seems to be happening: a panicky rally.
  • It's happening everywhere, coincidently, at a time when our ruling lords and masters have borrowed themselves broke. Times, Sunday Times
  • I saw what was happening and sprinted to the main road and then down the hill after her.
  • While this is happening, what appeared at first to be a spaghettilike jumble of the ninety-two chromatin strands condenses into chromosomes that upon close examination are actually twenty-three pairs of pairs, that is forty-six pairs or ninety-two chromosomes in all. THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD
  • I repeat that this pageful of disasters is merely the record of an average day, when nothing much is happening: and incidentally it occurs in a newspaper which, rather than most, tries to put a good face on things. As I Please
  • Much as I would love to be wrong I fear there is as much chance of this happening as there was of the Soviet hack-writer Sholokhov giving his Nobel Prize for Literature to some more deserving writer - one who had not only suffered in the Soviet gulag but whose works were actually worth reading. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • After a resurgence of vigilante action, including necklacing, he had asked the agencies for information on why it was happening.
  • Also on the way is a three-door Astra sport hatch with a panoramic windscreen, meaning that all in the car have an almost unlimited view of what is happening outside all around them.
  • It was a lovely moment, happening just after we'd got into bed and I think I went to sleep with a great big grin on my face.
  • The race was stopped by the commissaire following this bizarre happening!
  • House Speaker Dennis Hastert was told directly by the president on Saturday that this would be happening, and then this morning, I'm told by his aide that he says his mind is very focused on the men and women, the sailors, the soldiers, carrying out this mission, and he wishes them -- quote -- "Godspeed" -- John. CNN Transcript Oct 8, 2001
  • That “never-happened” is a static phenomenon that starts to be the case on our mental continuum with the arising of the “present-happening of our attainment of arhatship” and then continues on our mental continuum, without changing or being affected by anything, forever. What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? ��� Part One: Temporally Related Phenomena
  • The party scene is starting to pick up here again, so let's go back a bit and hit on some of our city's happenings.
  • What is happening in our universities gives deep cause for concern.
  • Rosanna is the Entertainment News Reporter, so she always has the scoop on what is happening with the stars.
  • ‘What is happening is the result of a fracture within a single group, a fratricidal war,’ he said.
  • My first trip to the OBGYN: While Dora is going to wait for sex, she does need to visit the OBGYN/midwife/Planned Parenthood so she can know what the hell is happening to her body and how she is in charge of her body. Archive 2009-03-01
  • One way to try to get a handle on what's happening in a scientific field is to study citations in research papers.
  • Accidents are happening with increasing frequency.
  • This blog entry discusses getting a phishing scam e-mail, and then some further logistics behind what might stop these from happening (and how to avoid getting scammed yourself).
  • And with the social context on top of location, we show a unique kind of view to what's actually happening on the ground, " Skyhook's VP of Marketing, Kate Imbach says.
  • Radical rhetoric can disguise essential continuities in policy or simply provide a posthoc gloss to changes which were happening anyway.
  • They realised we had hard evidence on what was happening and they promised to cooperate.
  • Stuff has been happening, but it's all kind of introspective, sad stuff that isn't that easy to write, even if I did have any intention of splashing it all over the web.
  • Either they did not see what was happening, which is inexcusable, or the board was so badly structured that dissenting voices could be ignored.
  • We can get angry about it, complaining that the perfect language of our childhood is being corrupted by ignorance and carelessness, but we can't stop it happening.
  • We get an occasional article or news item written about us and go for months without a word about what is happening in the world of Spanish dance and flamenco.
  • I find myself flipping channels when something rather uneventful is happening. Amrie’s Take on TV: An Open Letter… | the TV addict
  • The project would give scientists new insights into what is happening to the earth's atmosphere.
  • You can't necessarily set the positive agenda that we want across the board, but you can stop a lot of bad things from happening, and that's a step forward," said Colin Hanna, president of tea party support group Let Freedom Ring. Tea Party Winners Take Ambitious Promises To Washington
  • I'm just trying to get a grip on what's happening.
  • The lack of decoration or furniture made his mind dwell on what could be happening outside his cell, and none of it could be good news.
  • Whilst this was happening Catherine and I were trying to clean and paint the underneath of the car, which seemed to take forever as a previous owner had undersealed the car.
  • And this really is a pity, and this is a shame, because what does that mean for United Nations to expulse people who are fighting day after day at the local level to change what's happening, to try to defend the poor people, to defend the farmers, the indigenous people and so on? Democracy Now!
  • During that morning, however, something unusual was happening in the skies to the west and north-west of Ballyhaunis.
  • What is happening to the campaigning steamroller that was going to propel the new prophets of technocratic and meritocracy craving Labor into power?
  • The atmospherics and mood seem less translucent than ever and the fact nobody can work out exactly what's happening in front of them, leaves the intriguing sense of curiosity and desire to see more.
  • There is a conspiracy of silence about what is happening, says Christina Hardyment That's entertainment.
  • Perhaps if she and her parents could have had the help and support needed it might have gone a long way in preventing this tragedy from happening.
  • Senior Geography student Melissa Gordon introduced the band and was an emphatic host for much of the afternoon, shouting at students to "holla" at the day's different happenings. Golden Gate [X]pReSS
  • There was more bombast and bluster than football, the most notable happenings on the park being the accumulation of bookings.
  • So I did that, but the world is a great snowball rolling downhill and it never rolls uphill to unwind itself back to nothing at all and nonhappening. posted by Jim Chen at 11:40 PM A kiss is just a kiss
  • To understand what is happening in the airspace above, it is worth thinking about what has happened on the high street below. Times, Sunday Times
  • So for the third year running here's the low-down on Melas happening in your area.
  • Notice as you are jotting down what is happening on your lined paper, about when these things happen in Die Hard. Movies That Teach Structure
  • Then she called Brendan over, and I was even more WTF is happening today. Blu94anjel Diary Entry
  • It's helpful to have the latest information on what's happening in boomer retirement. FH Boom Daily Digest - May 16 2008 (The Boomer Blog)
  • It is interesting to ask, ‘why are these attacks happening with such frequency now?’
  • WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Happening now, Barack Obama sharpening his criticism of Hillary Clinton, what he calls her flawed judgment. CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2007
  • I have always objected when the term 'English' is used as a coverall description for those things which are happening within the UK at large.
  • I had very much enjoyed the spectacle though Hugo had seemed keener to direct my attention to the happenings in the private boxes rather than the performances on stage.
  • The crowds were one-deep, looking out across the river towards the boathouses in case anything was actually happening.
  • In fact, it’s just gorgeous, and in the kind of synchrony that seems to be happening all too often to me lately, Alex and I were wandering around downtown on Saturday and paused at an adorable pastry shop called Financier on Stone Street. Gluten-free chocolate financiers | smitten kitchen
  • There were some unusual happenings at school last week.
  • It is happening at the best of restaurants in town, a fusion of the cuisine of the West and East to delight the adventurous gourmets.
  • I have never heard them. boris johnson's wife sikh - For which this blog appears at number 11 how to make the people who does't belive global warming are happening believe there is global warming - For which this blog appears at number 3, although I can spell unlike the querier edexcel 2008 maths gcse exam - For which this blog appears at number 6 Archive 2008-05-01
  • But now something curious is happening. Times, Sunday Times
  • January 3rd, 2010 11: 10 am ET so what this twit is saying is someone had to be killed before it is lile 9/11. how dare he make light of peoples lives. this should not be happening any time there is an attempt it should be considered like 9/11. the only difference is 9/11 did happen, and with the christmas attempt the citzens on the plane were the ones who stopped the attempt. Brennan: Failed Christmas bombing not like 9/11
  • They were not but, your Honour, what was happening was that they were erecting a contractual system and qualifying it.
  • They are constantly quoted as evidence that man-made climate change is not happening.
  • In the event you dont know what the unthinkable is .... it is her getting her butt kicked as is happening now. pretty soon this BS will be over and the country can get on with electing our next president. Full Michigan delegation with half-vote to be seated by Dems
  • But within that period, the price of a gilt may move up and down depending on what else is happening to interest rates.
  • Brighton is definitely a happening place.
  • But her experiences made her determined to prevent the same thing happening to others.
  • The productive exercise at this juncture is to figure out how to prevent, as best we can, the grislier parts of this debacle from happening again. The Politics Of Vengeance
  • In the 1960s, Allen Ginsberg took oral poetry into coffee houses, pop festivals, and art happenings.
  • Actually she had little real fear of that happening; it was like running a subroutine, easily terminable. T2: INFILTRATOR
  • They started to deny what was happening, had less energy and became irritable.
  • Let me also share with you some other exciting web happenings.
  • Some limited beings, before attaining Buddhahood, are able to validly cognize certain “results, which are not yet happening” as a feature of their rebirth state or as an aftermath of strong imprints from attainments gained from meditation done in former lives. What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? ��� Part Four: Valid Cognition of the Past, Present, and Future
  • So give! What's happening with him?
  • The whole world is looking with shock and dismay on what's happening in Fiji.
  • Watching you guys do this renovation is going to be fun - more fun for us probably, as we don't have to worry about what is happening, how to pay for it all etc. M�rida the beautiful
  • Again, I'm prepared to be wrong about this, but I don't see cashiering McChrystal happening, given that the depiction of the "rift" here amounts to some personal slights, some unguarded drunk-talk among aides, and McChrystal's sincere belief that Karl Eikenberry's criticisms felt like a "betrayal" from a friend. Stanley McChrystal Under Fire: What Does It Mean For Counterinsurgency Strategy?
  • At that time "street art" as it is known today didn't exist, there were two visual experiences happening at the same time, the murals and the graff and they both intersected. Carmen Zella: InterZona Urban Art
  • But colleagues at the Grantham and Kesteven Hospital recall unpleasant happenings at the nurses' home which they shared with Allitt.
  • The tourist office provides a weekly information sheet about things that are happening in the town.
  • They jumped over countless hedges and a myriad of small streams and barbed wire, all set up to prevent what was happening now.
  • We will continue to collect and review new data to ensure this is happening. Times, Sunday Times
  • Somewhere in his mind he thought the same thing was happening again. Times, Sunday Times
  • Everything was happening too fast...' Her thumbnail was at her mouth in an instinctive gesture. A WORM OF DOUBT
  • That night I dropped in on Timothy and Ming to tell them what was happening. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • Meanwhile, the federalists try to pretend that this is not happening, or that it will not matter.
  • And there are several factors at work, but one of the most important, and one of the ones that has the most bearing, I think, in Australia, is the disjunction between what's happening in the economy and what's happening in society.
  • What's happening today is the Army Corps of Engineers is reinstalling those massive metal sheets between the 17th Street Canal and Lake Pontchartrain.
  • She added: 'I was a bit slow on the uptake with what was happening to me. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some chance of that happening!
  • You can see it happening because painting lifts you out of things. Times, Sunday Times
  • The perch outside one of the boxes has slipped and Don was trying to manoeuvre it back into position when a rosella popped her head out from the box to see what was happening.
  • Baylous said the main focus of this law is motorists who only clear enough snow off of their windshields to form a "peephole," which he said causes the driver to miss out on what is happening on the roadways surrounding them. The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register
  • Whatever the hell is happening, is happening pretty bigly.
  • Is that not what is what is happening, as distinct from what is being said to happen?
  • Further, while it is yet happening more slowly, the matter has also begun to penetrate certain curial circles. Reform in Continuity: Re-approaching the Second Vatican Council
  • I rang them the day before to see if i could have a telephone interview, they refused and said it wouldn't be a wasted journey as there were lots of things happening.
  • Look what is happening at the moment. Times, Sunday Times
  • I still felt numb and unfeeling, as if nothing that was happening was real.
  • Accidents that have been happening as a result of the failed traffic lights should be blamed on the council.
  • That really knows not only what we call hyper - local, which is what is happening in your community, but what is happening in -- you know, in your Taiwan, in your India, in your Vietnam. CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2009
  • They chronicled all the remarkable happenings of the Second World War.
  • Colorado (an ironic name for the town, since a "calumet" is a Native-American peace pipe) when their teacher notices something strange happening outside. Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • In the longer term, it is hoped that the strategy will improve customer retention and the signs are that this is happening.
  • Now concerts are selling out, people are excited and something is happening. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the teaser for season 4.5 there is a shot of a bunch of Sharons giving Boomer a rubdown - oops, nope, that is not what is happening - it looks upon closer inspection that Tyrol's hammy hand is holding something and aiming for Athena-Sharon's neck as she runs and holds Hera. Archive 2008-11-01
  • Can these buffoons really wander willy-nilly around the congested airspace above Britain with no regard for the professional pilots who rely on every other pilot to be up-to-speed on what is happening in their area?
  • Now he probably fears the same happening again. The Sun
  • For those of us currently deluged with work, stretching from one week to another, or simply those who work on many different things, tracking down when an event is happening in nigh impossible. The Grand App Writing Challenge Submissions! | jonobacon@home
  • He was clearly frightened, perhaps delirious and possibly even unaware of what was happening to him.
  • What is happening behind those gaslit windows? Times, Sunday Times
  • They are indicative of what's happening in the industry in terms of massive oversupply and massive shortage of demand. Times, Sunday Times
  • Accidents of this sort are happening with increasing frequency.
  • They will be more supportive if they know what is happening. Coming Off Tranquillizers and Sleeping Pills
  • It was the context within which this was happening that drew me in this time because it seemed to be talking to me.
  • Rachelle waved her cousin away as he gestured her to the backyard, where the party was happening.
  • There are in the bundles before us many other reports from various organisations, letters to and from the British Embassy and newspaper cuttings all of which helps us to form a reliable picture of what is happening and is likely to happen.
  • Although, the announcement of a strong, capable director should stop this from happening.
  • But recent happenings assuaged most feelings of guilt.
  • My catalogue of unpleasant happenings continued.
  • Can you fill me in on what's been happening while I was away?
  • The many hours that Scott had to bear without knowing at all what was happening were insufferable.
  • Now something else was happening here that he didn't un - derstand. The Bellini Bride
  • There will also be psychological confusion about such happenings.
  • He writes a tidbit/gossip column and the source for most of it revolves happenings with the International Broadcast Centre, NBC or Channel 7.
  • I once again drifted off into a different plane, not paying attention to what was happening around me, never mind on the tennis court.
  • I knew he was lonely and terrified about what was happening to his wife of 33 years. The Sun
  • The special effects pleased him, but the happenings, centring on a lost heir and a throne, were those of an historic costume drama. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • It suggests such infiltration, known as 'entryism', is either not happening or not being detected. Times, Sunday Times
  • Perhaps the recent troubles were a wake up call to those in the church who at first could not believe what was happening, maybe once again it must act as the apostles did after the visitation of the Holy Spirit.
  • What is actually happening is that the United States is being isolated, which is not the same thing.
  • The King is being dethroned, that's what's happening.
  • It can avoid the diseases happening in perilous family by the way of genetic counseling, which can distinguish hereditary disease and imhereditary disease.
  • More recently there have been a number of stories raising concern about what is happening in Iran. Times, Sunday Times
  • Before the young man knew what was happening, two of the figures at the alley's entrance fell silently, silhouetting another dark figure with a silver longsword in his or her hand.
  • From the rattles and clunks it's difficult to tell what's happening, but I switch on the cassette recorder in case.
  • He collapsed to the floor and Cain stood there; frozen in fear at what was happening next.
  • Third, too many times, characters would 'intuit' what has happening for no apparent reason or, If the story needed something big to happen to rescue the characters, it did. REVIEW: Saga of Seven Suns, Books I and II
  • Tackles that that were happening when I was playing at Arsenal – if that was a red card there would have been a sending-off in every game I played for Arsenal. Patrick Vieira calls on referees to play fair with Manchester City
  • He knew what was happening in the boathouse and it was too ordinary to convert into anything exciting.
  • What is happening here is that the spiders are weaving webs and the woodlice are being trapped.
  • There is ample anecdotal evidence this is happening. Times, Sunday Times
  • After all, Martin reasoned, such retaliation is a commonplace of baseball, with brushback rhubarbs happening almost weekly every season.
  • What is therefore happening with these particular ads is that the sniffer used to detect browser type is finding two browsers and happily serving two ads at once, thus busting the margins.
  • His erratic performance at least gave fans something to get worked up about - as there was little else happening. The Sun
  • Miles is uncritical and seems to think that outrageous performance art and happenings are justified because they make people think. The Times Literary Supplement
  • We were asked to consider whether the school library is a place, a concept, a function, or a learning commons; could we re-vision school as something happening within library? The Changing Landscape of School Libraries
  • In the future, lab technicians will receive more information about the autoclave process to prevent the mistake from happening again.
  • He must have heard what was happening to me and became the avenging angel. Times, Sunday Times
  • I repeatedly, urgently ask my boyfriend, "What's happening?"
  • Within hours of the tragedy happening, an emergency rescue team had been assembled.
  • Is it possible to stop this decline happening? Times, Sunday Times
  • Women today are much more tuned into what's happening on the catwalks at fashion week. The Sun
  • We were all acutely aware of what was happening "Eat your dinner, children in Biafra would make that last a week" but until now I must confess I didn't really know the background. 48 entries from November 2006
  • But it was equally unpleasant to drift aimlessly through the blackness of space, all the while abiding either the fortuity of happening upon errant matter or the slow, foreordained approach of death.
  • Something smart-mobby seems to be happening in Kenya. Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Kenya: Where Social Networks Meet Mobile Phones
  • The Report gives specific figures to illustrate what is actually happening with regard to what it refers to as rewards that are spread "unequally and inequitably". ANC Daily News Briefing
  • There is this instant pushing of the outrage button that seems to be happening so much these days. I wonder how outraged people really are. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is a plea to all bar owners and councillors to help make Bolton a place to be proud of and to prevent these tragic accidents happening.
  • “The year 2008” is the basis on which the totally conceptional “categorynot-yet-happening” can be imputed in the conceptual cognition of the year 2008 as being in the category of “not-yet-happening.” What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? ��� Part Two: Variant Indian Buddhist Views Concerning Temporally Related Phenomena
  • The ignition delay fault of solid rocket motor happening in a low temperature based on FTA is analyzed in the paper.
  • Might they reflect my ‘real’ interests, or might they perhaps indicate which areas within tetrapod zoology are currently the most happening, interesting or sexy? Archive 2007-01-01
  • They are indicative of what's happening in the industry in terms of massive oversupply and massive shortage of demand. Times, Sunday Times
  • If your father sees this happening, I predict that he will feel less estranged from you and the rest of the family. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was carried away, and what he might have said of that night's happening would have redounded neither to St. Vincent's credit nor to his own, had not Frona innocently put a seal upon his lips ere he had properly begun. CHAPTER 13
  • Gerald Van Wijk, another unswerving volunteer in our room at Salt River, also kept me posted on what was happening at the rescue station. The Great Penguin Rescue
  • To stop this from happening doctors recommended cutting his brain in two. The Sun
  • In “Allison”, what in fact was happening – although the writers tried mightily to keep it ambiguous – was fairly obvious: her glitch from the car bomb caused her to crosslink her self-awareness with her memories of the woman she was modeled after, and then channel those memories through her human emulation mode. Matthew Yglesias » Spitzer: Let’s Condemn the Human Race to Slavery and Extinction
  • The underlying growth most economists think is happening now is much weaker, perhaps only 1%. Times, Sunday Times
  • They had told them to read the Evening Press to find out what was happening.
  • But instead, I was entirely drawn into the teenage drama happening next door.
  • There are some unsolved mysteries and unusual happenings in this case.
  • Meanwhile, something was happening on the southern tip of the island. Times, Sunday Times
  • Newspapers seized on the results as proof that global warming wasn'treally happening.
  • If this was happening in any other country we would be shaking our heads in disbelief. The Sun
  • Blurring art and life, the ‘Bed-Ins’ illustrate the strategies of happenings and Fluxus performance at the heart of Yoko's aesthetic.
  • She has to work out whether vampire serial killings are happening, and what the strange, deadly supernatural force is, and what to do about it, while dealing with yet another different bunch of supernaturals in fae types. Archive 2007-01-01
  • You can be content in your own private life and still be discontented about what's happening in the country, and that's always been the case.
  • But surely the chances of a similar accident happening again are astronomical.
  • Whatever is happening in the office, she always remains aloof.
  • HAMMER: Well, I think that also kind of fogged the issue for a lot of people as to what ended up happening. CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2009
  • He said that the United Nations should not be afraid to use the term apartheid to describe what is happening in occupied Palestine. WORLD SILENT AS GAZA SUFFERS COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT BY ISRAEL
  • When he went on to suggest there was a lot that was objectionable happening off the ball it only served to heighten a suspicion that he had been whingeing.
  • What happened in bridal, with the shift online, is happening in all media, only quicker. Milking the old cash cow « BuzzMachine
  • We cannot have things like this happening. The Sun
  • She can be hip and happening and studious at the same time.
  • Emotions express the intimate personal measuring of what is happening in our social lives.

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