Sentence examples for dint of having been from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kerstein holds what is known as a common-law trademark on Windows2000 by dint of having been the first to start using the term commercially in early 1996.

Windsor has paid off her debts, her mortgage and has managed, partly by dint of having been so famous from the Carry On films, partly by deliberately distancing herself from the character, to maintain her independence of the part.

"By dint of having been out there a couple of months with real users, we've learned a great deal about what people love," she says.

Towne described the phenomenon of having been able to discover, by dint of driving on the right streets, the LA of the 1930s in 1974.

But it did tell the New York Times recently that 22,000 Kansans – most of whom are likely to be Democratic-leaning by dint of their having been immigrants – were in a state of electoral limbo having failed to negotiate the new citizenship hurdle placed in their way by Kobach himself.

It didn't dawn on me then and it still doesn't register now that Steve McQueen, James Garner, Frank Sinatra and others were portraying characters that were not heroic by dint of their having been captured by the Germans.

By dint of their duties, governors of the Bank have been hugely political creatures, usually acting behind the scenes.

Nor does she want, as an author, to come over as some proselytiser for therapy; she would never claim superior intellectual or emotional status simply by dint of the fact that she has been – is this a word?

Sydney people, who for so long have taken it for granted that world class events would lob in their lap simply by dint of the city's population, have been awarded just two, relatively innocuous pool games.

A Website that gains link authority over time has an advantage over others, just as someone like Kawasaki has an advantage over other Twitterers by dint of how often his messages have been retweeted in the past.

By the end of the Western, the town has been rid of its villains, but by dint of a kind of violence that it can't then accommodate.