Sentence examples for different state of affairs from inspiring English sources

And if he wins, well, government is an entirely different state of affairs from promises made long ago in opposition.

The sacrifices that, we are told, must be made by the Greek citizenry should be sacrifices towards an entirely different state of affairs.

Richard Engle, an NBC correspondent reported a different state of affairs: According to the Guardian newspaper in London, A caller from Tripoli also told Libya's Al-Aharar TV channel that anti-Qaddafi locals had closed off the city's main Alsika Street, close to the French embassy and leading from Tripoli university to the former King's palace.

2010 was a very different state of affairs in the mobile world.

Descartes notes that an effective way of countering an undesirable passion is to imagine a new and different state of affairs, or response to the state of affairs.

This is evident when one considers that in some other kind of context the utterance, albeit most likely with a different intonational character, might be a comment on a different state of affairs: one sees that a person at the dinner table has eaten everything on his plate, and the comment is made, and cannot be interpreted as a greeting!

Another feature of architectural failure in keeping with general design phenomena is that architectural objects may count as successes or failures depending on different states of affairs, context, or remarkably small differences.

It may also be, however, that the term beautiful has no sense except as the expression of an attitude, which is in turn attached by different people to quite different states of affairs.

Beliefs, like public linguistic representations, are about different states of affairs.

Given this fine grain account, 'Obama is accompanied' and 'there is a contingently existing x such that Obama is wholly distinct from, and coexisting with, x' express different states of affairs, since these sentences have different syntactic structures.

Chisholm takes these to be two different states of affairs; each of them existing necessarily; neither of them depending for its existence on the existence of any contingent thing.