Sentence examples for did at a time from inspiring English sources

The Portuguese president, Anibal Cavaco Silva, warned voters they could not complain about what politicians did "at a time of sacrifice and serious doubts about our future" if they did not take part.

"Starting off as I did at a time when women didn't do much else besides bring up children — it's very hard, and you get very tired.

6, 1951," one of the hypnotic black paintings Jackson Pollock did at a time when he was moving away from his famous drip paintings into more figurative works.

So Macfarlane's comments, coming as they did at a time when scientists are calling for smarter thinking about how we fund science, are unfortunate and unhelpful.

Obama's invocation of patriotism was noteworthy, coming as it did at a time when Silicon Valley companies, faced with slowing growth in the U.S., are spending more time trying to attract customers in other countries.

To have the country honour men for doing what they did at a time when difficult personal decisions made their actions worthwhile for the overall good meant the same thing for all citizens.

But such a move "is very difficult to do at a time like this," he said.

Can it be done at a time of major spending cuts?

"But closing it down is the correct thing to do at a time like this.

They've got a lot of cleanup to do at a time when there's a lot of red ink".

That was easier to do at a time of tragedy, when the country was still in shock.