Sentence examples for ago pointed from inspiring English sources

Beyond that, say, when an action is legal but ethically questionable, or when (as Aldo Leopold long ago pointed out) no one is watching, hunter ethics is an individual responsibility.

Economists long ago pointed out why it is bad for a single firm to dominate a market.

As John Marshall and Daniel Webster long ago pointed out, the power to tax involves the power to destroy.

Briskly walking on a recent morning with a volunteer bird patrol, Michael Mesure, who founded FLAP 19 years ago, pointed out many examples of killer buildings.

(Salinger, as Wilfrid Sheed long ago pointed out in the best thing ever written about his style, was first of all a humorist, trained on other humorists.

The critics long ago pointed out that the film pretties up the facts about the real-life mathematician on whom the Russell Crowe character is based.

One reader chose Zoë Heller's The Believers, about the dysfunctional Litvinoff family, another plumped for Sue Miller's While I Was Gone, in which a woman is forced to confront the murder of her best friend 30 years ago, a third pointed readers towards Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, about an Indian boy growing up in America.

A year ago there was a very pointed intervention from on high to ensure that Modric did not waltz off to Stamford Bridge.

Point to its pointed teeth.

He casually abandons Theodora, who then turns into a bad witch, too — a green one, with a pointed nose, like Margaret Hamilton seventy-four yeago ago.

Five months ago, both Democrats and Republicans were offering up pointed criticisms for just about every aspect of Obama's decision.