Sentence examples for by affairs from inspiring English sources

This fall, the Michigan game was again interrupted by affairs of the heart.

But his long career was also marred by affairs, including one (alleged) with gangster Ronnie Kray, another (unrevealed over 30 years) with Harold Macmillan's wife.

Mark Harper, a partner at the London law firm Withers, which handles "big money" divorces, said it was hard to distinguish between divorces precipitated by affairs and those which resulted from a mid-life crisis.

All too often, first films are "written and directed by" affairs, with friends cast as extras, a small budget put together by begging and borrowing and a less-than-even chance of finding a distributor.

Would-be anthropologists Mark and Digby are determined to secure the only two research grants on offer — despite a woeful lack of experience — while their fellow students seem more preoccupied by affairs of the heart.

As old as "Lysistrata," the notion of celibacy has taken on new and particular urgency for these converts, many of whom, though not all, have been singed by affairs gone wrong.

He was moved by books, by love affairs, by the sea.

It soon catches fire from cigarettes tossed from upper windows, but the fire is a club by affair and you get to know your neighbors.

I first saw "Clytemnestra" in 1980 in a reduced version on television when the original costumes by Graham and Helen McGehee had been replaced by glitzy affairs by Halston.

Charter and voucher schools are often fly-by-night affairs.

Mr Prodi has carved up foreign affairs, by function rather than geography, among four commissioners.