Sentence examples for had been toward from inspiring English sources

The trend had been toward less secrecy.

At the shipping center in Denver where Jeanine Maez filled mail orders, the trend had been toward paperless transactions.

And one of the things was he was amazed at how deceptive the Iraqis had been toward Unmovic and Unscom, deceptive at hiding things.

McGovern's proposed corporate tax increases merely restored rates to the level where they had been toward the end of Ike's presidency.

Rather, Winthrop's "city on a hill" was meant to be, in Barry's words, "an authoritative and theocentric state," no less tolerant of any deviation of Puritan theology than England had been toward the Puritans.

Instead they asked him about his political allegiances and what he thought of various opposition leaders, including Alexey Navalny, who had been toward the front of the May 6th march.

Indeed, the trend has been toward improvement.

SPEER: It must have been toward the end of 1943.

The larger arc, though, has been toward support for equality.

Most of the shifts in acting have been toward what is deemed a more "realistic" approach.

The principal evolutionary trend in brain development has been toward elaboration.