occasioned

He said it was "not a resignation occasioned by fault or by any admission of liability".

It is inevitable, then, that the recent election of a Labour prime minister after more than a decade of Tory rule has occasioned endless comparison with the last time that happened, in 1997.

But while it must have occasioned a good deal of rewriting, their absence has no effect on the larger story.

Not long ago, a TV news outlet hiring a former political bigwig might have occasioned grumbling from members of the other party, critiques from journalism watchdogs or anonymous griping among the staff.

It’s customary to note the parade of horribles that could be occasioned by such an extreme decision.