Sentence examples for because he was present from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kindlon also said he was no longer representing Mr. Dopp on criminal matters because he was present for all of Mr. Dopp's interviews, making him a potential witness in any inquiry.

However, its increased use also raises very real issues of fairness, as has been voiced by campaigners for reform, who were disappointed this week when permission to appeal was dismissed in the controversial case of Jordan Cunliffe, a partially blind teenager convicted of murder because he was present at the attack and did nothing to prevent it.

If Rousseau seems like the central protagonist in the anti-élitist revolt currently reconfiguring our politics, it is because he was present during the creation of the value system — the Enlightenment belief in what he called "the sciences, the arts, luxury, commerce, laws," which changed the character of Western culture and eventually that of the world at large.

Prime Minister Trygve Bratteli in turn claimed that Gjems-Onstad "undermined democracy" because he was present and spoke in parliament too much.

Maximus may have remained in Rome, because he was present when the newly elected Pope Martin I convened the Lateran Council of 649 at the Lateran Basilica in Rome.

Maybe Hannibal Lecter worked so well because he was presented to us so simply, wrapped in silence.

Maybe towards the end of his career people thought he was a bit grand, because he was presenting this very important programme, but he was always genuinely interested in their stories and in what they thought and felt.

She is looking straight into Cohen's lens, but her gaze is halfway between resigned – at his presence – and poised – because he is present.

The Lutheran teaching of the "real" presence left open the question of whether Christ is present in the bread and wine because he is present everywhere, ubiquitously, as some Lutherans contend, or because he promises to be specifically present in the elements.

"There was definitely a "now or never" moment he was presented with because of his beliefs, and he ended up going to Syria because of it.

I wanted this to translate to his live performance, and I'm sure it does, but on this particular night, I feel like the Europa sound guy didn't really know what to do with what he was presented with, because I couldn't really hear the vocals at all, and everything seemed all fuzzed together.