Sentence examples for by reason of a from inspiring English sources

"The contract has been terminated by the seller by reason of a breach of its terms by the buyer," he said.

"I thought that it was against public policy for a sexual assault victim to be subject to being silenced by reason of a payment of money," Judge Kopp said.

She said it "seems to argue in a circle" that a person excluded from a job by reason of a disability is therefore disabled in the major life activity of working.

The microscopes of today are far more sophisticated and powerful than those of four centuries ago, but are nevertheless unable — by reason of a law of optics advanced by the German physicist Ernest Abbe, in 1873 — to differentiate objects smaller than half the wavelength of visible light, or two-tenths of a micrometre.

Although he initially acknowledges that "it's not known precisely what caused the bleeding" that killed Ryder, in the crucial "sentencing factors" section, he becomes absolute, saying: "The deceased was susceptible to dire consequences from minor trauma by reason of a pre-existing aneurysm.

Under New York State's penal code, it encompasses conduct necessary "as an emergency measure to avoid an imminent public or private injury which is about to occur by reason of a situation occasioned or developed through no fault of the actor".

The law states that any United States national "injured in his or her person, property, or business by reason of an act of international terrorism" can sue for damages in any appropriate federal court "and shall recover threefold the damages he or she sustains and the cost of the suit, including attorney's fees".

In England, Australia, and Canada debts provable in bankruptcy (bankruptcy debts) include any debt or liability to which the bankrupt is subject at the date of the bankruptcy or to which he may become subject before his discharge by reason of an obligation incurred before the date of bankruptcy.

A thing may have real being in potency either by reason of its intrinsic cause (e.g., if matter preexists which may enter into the thing's constitution), or by reason of an extrinsic cause (e.g., if an agent preexists which can produce it).

Many studies confirm significantly elevated CSF β2-m values in neonates with cytomegalovirus infection, by reason of an intrathecal synthesis [ 23– 25].

A jury found Mr. Hinckley not guilty by reason of insanity, a decision that shocked the public and lawmakers across the country.