Sentence examples for by a situation that from inspiring English sources

In this game, the Mets were unfazed by a situation that had doomed them on Saturday.

His boyhood was shaped by a situation that may be more common than we like to admit: his father led a double life with a woman across town.

All these possibilities, and others besides, are equally valid – and with, for the most part, a very light touch, Kiarostami gets us hooked by a situation that could easily seem rarefied and academic.

Lawmakers are transfixed — and, in some corners, alarmed — by a situation that seems more Hollywood than Albany: a legislator working for years as a law enforcement mole, all the while introducing bills and casting votes like any other legislator.

'Nothing seems more appropriate today' he writes, '… than thinking about community; nothing more necessary, demanded and heralded by a situation that joins in a unique epochal knot the failure of all communisms with the misery of new individualisms' (2010: 1).

Bri was a free spirit trapped by her circumstances, by a situation that continued to deprive her of control.

As part of the UN partition plan of 1947, Gaza was assigned to the Arab Palestinian state, but following the outbreak of war on Israel's declaration of statehood in 1948 Gaza - swollen by a massive influx of Arab refugees - was administered by Egypt, a situation that continued until its conquest and illegal occupation by Israel in 1967.

In particular, males are characterized by preference functions in which different male genotypes largely rank females similarly by attractiveness, a situation that arises under open-ended preference functions or unimodal preference functions with no genetic variation in peak preferences.

During that time, the Court has been dominated by conservatives, a situation that has left her as a dissenter in many of the most important cases.

The governor here is a Democrat, and both houses of the Legislature are controlled by Democrats, a situation that should have guaranteed an unfavorable outcome for the Republicans.

It is not that Ms. Johnson has been inactive until now, but she was often overshadowed by Mr. Johnson, a situation that infuriated her.