Sentence examples for because of a chunk from inspiring English sources

Because of their superb starting pitching, because of the late-inning pit bull named Mariano Rivera, because of a chunk of offense from Bernie Williams, Hideki Matsui and Jason Giambi and, as usual, because of Jeter's cool, confident play, the Yankees rushed to three straight victories and buried the Twins.

So I'm here, pretending to be your dad, because for a chunk of the population – the same chunk that have a leather flip-case for their iPhones and an unexplained bit of blue rope in the boot of their cars – the absence of Clarkson is a huge deal.

Just look at the bungled announcement of its intention to build a new ground at Old Oak Common in northwest London (bungled because the owner of a chunk of the site, Car Giant, made plain it wanted to develop the land itself, without a football stadium, thank you very much).

"We're having things happen like Sept. 11 because we're taking too much of a chunk out of the planet," Mr. Reynolds contends, speaking more in the spirit of human sadness than in the old antiwar passion that brought him here.

It is unrepeatable not only because it is a one-off, devised piece – the combined effort of director Sally Cookson, dramaturg Mike Akers and the cast – but because of its site: a chunk of King Street has been closed off and the theatre's 18th-century facade is now a backdrop.

But E.U. officials acknowledge that sanctions also remained a dead letter because impounding a chunk of a heavily indebted struggling country's G.D.P. would make no economic sense — an objection that appears equally valid for the new proposals.

And as ThinkProgress has already pointed out, the numbers are misleading because only a chunk of the total settlement has to be paid in actual cash; the rest can come in the form of breaks to consumers that will ultimately benefit the bankers.

Once inside the clubhouse, most sets of eyes gravitate toward the right because a chunk of the team's mighty offense is planted against that wall.

But the country continued to spend less than it earned because exporters squirrelled a chunk of their profits away.A combination of factors kept domestic demand below par.

Interestingly, Molitor does not consider himself a lock to make it on the first ballot because he got a chunk of his hits as a designated hitter.

But Liddiard's reasoning is more prosaic: "It references that Taman Shud thing because it's a chunk of Australian history that people don't know, and a bunch of people who don't know their own history probably shouldn't be saying what is or isn't Australian".