Sentence examples for because they were official from inspiring English sources

Their contriibutions were allowed, however, only because they were official portraits.

They consider it newsworthy simply because they are official documents or transcripts.

The officers claimed immunity from the lawsuit because they were performing official duties.

Bruno Grandi, president of the F.I.G., said at the start of these Games that the passports were the best evidence of a gymnast's age because they were an official government document.

State Department officials classified the deaths as terrorism since the five were killed "because they were Americans," one official said.

Lawmakers devised the proposal because they were alarmed at official estimates suggesting that many employers would reduce or eliminate drug benefits for retirees if Medicare covered such costs.

The first lady repeated her belief that her daughters, 19-year-old twins, should be shielded from media coverage because they were not public officials.

There are about 9,000 former Iraqi military officials who are barred from serving in the new Iraqi military or taking other government jobs because they were senior Baath Party officials.

She added the "vast majority" of her emails to state department officials were already automatically recorded because they were in correspondence with official government accounts.

In 2011 alone, ninety-two million documents were restricted because they were found to contain official secrets.

The "motor voter" registration system, which was supposed to make it easy for citizens to register to vote at the same time they obtained a driver's license or vehicle registration, failed badly last year, when many new voters were turned away from the polls because they were not listed on official voting rosters.