Sentence examples for had passed because of from inspiring English sources

A lot of artists had passed because of their politics.

The reference to civil rights felt ironic, since exit polls suggested that Proposition 8 had passed because of a higher-than-expected turnout from California's socially conservative black community – 70 per cent of black voters voted for a gay marriage ban, helping it achieve a 400,000-vote majority.

CNN, however, said the White House offered Conway as an alternative to Vice President Mike Pence and that the network had "passed" because of concerns about her "credibility".

And those who've passed because of it.

While the Tea Party got most of the attention in the Ryancare trainwreck in the House, it might have been even more interesting if it had passed, because most of the pushback from Republicans in the Senate was from the moderate faction, not the hotheads.

He never returned to the autobiography even after the explosions of 1968 had passed because; near the end of that year his friend and colleague, Thomas Merton, died of accidental electrocution in Bangkok (on December 10).

On the first roll-call Mr. Carpenter had passed because the convention chairman, Representative Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Massachusetts, had ignored his joking attempt to place in nomination the name of "Joe Smith". Just before the vote was announced, Mr. Carpenter gave in, and the Nixon total climbed to 1,322 votes.

The caretaker was asked the length of time that had passed because their stored water had been collected, and whether it was given to the GEMS child.

None of these recipes had passed out of use because they were bad, but because the passage of time prompts inevitable changes: in the language of kitchen instruction, in fashion, and in us.

Were the box to be opened by an intruder from some land so remote that the name, the date and photographs of the ensemble had not been published and republished until they had been graven upon his memory, he might conclude that these were merely stylish garments which had passed out of fashion and which, because they were associated with some pleasant occasion, had not been discarded.

In her 1995 biography, Zelda described wanting to get more women involved in activism, because "we had passed the stage of caring about a "lady-like" image because women had for too long been polite... and were still being ignored".