Sentence examples for circumstantial on from inspiring English sources

In his ruling he said that, despite the jury's finding, there had been no evidence, "either direct or circumstantial," on any agreement by the five officers to deprive Mr. Faison of his civil rights.

"Because the government didn't have that" — a cooperating witness with knowledge of a conspiracy — "they relied on circumstantial evidence, on inferences and ultimately appealed to the jurors' common sense".

She distinguishes two different modal categories according to the position of the modal and to the characteristics of the subject; these are epistemics/true deontics on the one hand and circumstantial modals on the other hand.

Mr. Rajaratnam was a rare case, and the government usually relies on circumstantial evidence based on the timing of the trades and the contacts between the tipper and recipient.

Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells and tenocytes/dermal fibroblasts appear to be the cell populations of choice for clinical translation in equine and human patients respectively based on circumstantial, rather than on hard evidence.

Naftalis, his lawyer, said that the evidence was circumstantial, based on the timing of events; his call to Rajaratnam on the day of the Buffett deal was merely a poorly timed check-in about a soured investment.

Israeli officials have said their assumption about Al Qaeda is largely circumstantial, based on the way the attacks were conducted.

But Mr. Stillman said the evidence was circumstantial, based on records that phone calls were made, not that people actually spoke.

Even though his book could not be more intimate, circumstantial details (on the face of it, bizarrely, given what he has elected to write about) are omitted.

Even while recognising defeat in the parliament, the former bus driver and union organiser blamed the "circumstantial" loss on a rightwing "counter-revolution" trying to sabotage Venezuela's oil-dependent economy and destabilise the government.

A highly circumstantial report on Asia that expects a glorious future for the continent as the world power center; by two staff members of The New York Times who did duty as Times correspondents in Asia.