6 sentences with “occasionally”

The Jews went from being ruled by the Persians to the Greeks and the Romans (although they occasionally became independent for a time), and eventually dispersed throughout the Roman Empire.

Thus, even when "good Popes" occasionally appeared, the general pattern was that the Popes did little to reinforce the spiritual authority they had already lost because of the Great Western Schism.

The great communist powers of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the People's Republic of China loomed over a vast swathe of Eurasia, while smaller countries occasionally erupted in revolution.

At its worst, the Cold War resulted in "proxy wars" between anti-communists led or at least supplied by the United States and communist insurgents inspired and occasionally supported by the Soviet Union or communist China (from 1949 onwards).

Carthage was one of the richest and most powerful trading empires of the Hellenistic era, a peer of the Alexandrian empires to the east, trading with them and occasionally skirmishing with the Ptolemaic armies of Egypt and the Greek cities of Sicily.

After the Napoleonic Wars, the great powers of Europe deliberately worked out a new political settlement whose purpose was, in part, to keep the peace between them. That peace broke down occasionally from 1853 onwards, but subsequent wars were shorter, less bloody and less frequent than those of any previous century.