Sentence examples for but left because from inspiring English sources

He considers his time at the C.I.A., from 1963 to 1970, part of his public service, but left because, as a newlywed, he did not want to spend 20 years on international assignments.

Mr. Silber, who was hired to run the team in 2008 and has further expanded it to 24 analysts, spent nine years in the financial world with the Carson Group and Evolution Capital, but left because, as he put it, 9/11 made him want "to get into the fight".

"I was a dental nurse in Romania, but left because the money wasn't very good.

Watson was a founder member of Greenpeace but left because he wanted to be more "interventionist".

(He had briefly studied at the Eastman School of Music two years earlier, but left because he felt his interest in jazz was being stifled).

Wali Khan used to work with Lerounis compiling a Kalasha alphabet, but left because he didn't like the division the Kalasha Dur had created.

A number of Sudanese refugees (as is the case for the majority of those arriving in Europe via the Mediterranean) are first fingerprinted or receive asylum in Italy, but leave because they are unable to make a living.

"Some people leave just for the weather, but others leave because when we invented suburbia, we never really planned for it through a full life cycle," he said.

"But I left because I was poor and couldn't feed my children.

"It was a crazy, frothy time," he said, but he left because he wanted to run his own business.

He said he hadn't left the earth because of a love affair or politics but had left because of his hat and coat.