Sentence examples for by which stage it from inspiring English sources

It will likely take a disastrous jolt ("an environmental Pearl Harbour") to alter the calculus of negligence economics, provide a rousing symbol and focus the issue, by which stage it might be too late.

Inevitably, there is always one carrot that has escaped to the bottom of the rack only to emerge looking like some gnarled and mummified finger, by which stage it is only good for compost (or a meal foraged by my local family of foxes).

"Charlie was told it had gone to security, by which stage they [security] had already called the police to say they had found something.

If the contract runs for its full term — by which stage the Argentina international will be 34 — Barça are committed to paying him £220m, before performance-related bonuses.

With Syria, it was almost a year before Kofi Annan was appointed a United Nations envoy, by which stage the situation was so violent and polarised his options were constrained.

The third act is a later performance still, by which stage everyone is at each other's throats.

His return to the Church of England fold finally came in 2001, by which stage he felt drawn to priesthood.

"By which stage neither was the offer or the structure acceptable and we were completely left without being able to get a replacement in for a player.

This message was reiterated at a conference in September in Oxford, by which stage scientists had done considerably more research on what 4 °C of warming would mean.

The decision to strike down the law was, however, suspended until March next year, by which stage the government's new investigatory powers bill is expected to be enacted.

A jinking run through the middle from Alex Goode aside, the visitors had contributed little to a ferocious opening 20 minutes, by which stage Quins were 17-0 thethe good.