Sentence examples for circumstantial with from inspiring English sources

This mistakenly equates circumstantial with weak.

Perhaps that was circumstantial: with 10 musicians and a conductor shoehorned onto a stage already packed with percussion instruments, proper balances must have been hard to achieve.

Mr. Obama's advantages are partly circumstantial: With no primary opponent, Mr. Obama, like other incumbent presidents before him, can begin preparing for a general election contest that is still more than a year away.

At first glance, it's hard to reconcile the sparseness of Fontane's plots, the way he prefers to linger over what he calls "the circumstantial," with the extravagant emotions his work has provoked in so many critics and writers over the years.

Before the state rested, much of the afternoon was consumed by extended arguments from Mr. Zimmerman's lead defense lawyer, Mark O'Mara, who said the case should be dismissed because the evidence was circumstantial, with the state failing to prove that Mr. Zimmerman had shown any ill will, malice or hatred.

Although these variables are more direct indicators of light conditions, they would be more circumstantial with regard to the ecosystem engineering mechanisms with which seagrass can modify its surroundings, i.e. reduction of nutrient levels [5], [19] and trapping and stabilization of silt [6], [17], [23].

The prosecutor, Janet DiFiore, flanked by members of the New Castle Police Department, which investigated the homicide, described the allegations as a "compelling circumstantial case," with forensic evidence from the scene.

Ms. Bunn's assertion that evidence of the prosecution's use of race in other jury selections, while not completely irrelevant, was little better than circumstantial met with objections from several justices.

There was enough circumstantial evidence, with hints of more in the pipeline, to prove the guilt of the four men on trial, and possibly also of Mr. bin Laden himself.

"Then how did the state come about that this was a first-degree murder case on circumstantial evidence with a child that an autopsy discovered to have had sepsis and ask that this man be put to death on weak circumstances?

Of course it would be a little premature to suggest that the arrival of wives and girlfriends – and the effects of Jimmy Anderson's flying visit home on paternal duty – has had any more than a circumstantial connection with the fear that English eyes have been less acutely on the ball since arriving in Perth.