Sentence examples for had actually served from inspiring English sources

He suggested that Mugabe's attacks on whites had actually served to make many whites feel more Zimbabwean than ever — albeit defensively.

When I asked if it mattered whether he had actually served as a ball-turret gunner, they would become passionately insistent: "Yes, ma'am, of course it matters.

But he was rescued by The Big Breakfast, whose livewire former host, Johnny Vaughan, had actually served time for dealing cocaine.

The author of From Here to Eternity, Jones had actually served at Guadalcanal, but in the preface to his novel he admits he had created a place of the imagination.

Besides a deep sense of personal loss, he will be sorely missed not only for his knowledge and skill but particularly, I believe, because he was the sole civilian at the top of our government who had actually served on the ground during a similar struggle even though it was long ago and in a different place.

Before the 1996 law took effect, noncitizens who committed drug offenses or other serious crimes were deportable, but unless they had actually served at least five years in prison, they retained the right to apply for a "discretionary waiver of deportation".

—David Rohde Since 1976, when Congress passed a law limiting the F.B.I. director's term to ten years, only one director, Robert Mueller, has actually served a complete term.

"I was beginning to doubt [it], but this leak has actually served to restore my faith in his leadership," said Thomas Jones from Oldham on the group's page, which has over 62,000 members.

Eminem's relationship with his mother and his rumored affair with Mariah Carey are no more controversial than the personal lives of other rappers; some of them have actually served time.

While taxpayers have been wondering if all of the extra government spending of the past couple of years has actually served to impede the recovery, Keynesian economists have been asking them to keep faith in the promise that government demand is the secret to economic recovery.

In the propaganda world that the three generations of the Kim dynasty has created, Mr. Kim is "a great iron-willed general admired by all of his people, including real generals who have actually served in the military," said Lee Sung-yoon, North Korea specialist at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.