Sentence examples for cause to pick from inspiring English sources

It was under these conditions that all these Olympians trained – in a culture that routinely ignored them or, if events gave it cause to pick them out, would be as likely to call them ugly or wonder whether they'd been bitching about their teammates as to marvel at their achievements.

Then, in an appearance before Congress, Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman, seemed to dispel some fears he aroused last week that he was focusing on stock prices in an effort to cool an overheated economy that might cause inflation to pick up.

I don't know what was on his mind that would cause him to pick up a bat and throw it at Piazza.

Anthony Bewley, a British psychodermatologist, told me that some patients develop psychiatric disorders that cause them to pick at their flesh or pull out patches of hair; other patients believe that insects are crawling over, or just under, their skin.

I'm tempted to bet that the Academy's enduring inferiority complex in the presence of British actors will cause it to pick Benedict Cumberbatch, but I think that the Academy will let its "Birdman" love run over instead: Michael Keaton for the win.

Had Spinoza identified desire with something other than striving, then he would have committed himself to the view that my desire does not in fact cause me to pick up the cup.

These often-inscrutable qualities that cause someone to pick this over that are 'drivers of preference'.

Try to splash the cooled mixture as you transfer it, as this will cause it to pick up some air.

If your body becomes relaxed through calm thought and breathing, you can avoid stress, which is a major mental trigger that may cause you to pick up a cigarette.

What sort of longing causes people to pick up and head out for the horizon?

Though the end-of-the-year frenzy caused sales to pick up, prices have yet to reach pre-recession highs.