Sentence examples for handled in the past from inspiring English sources

Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person's actions, and how similar situations have been handled in the past.

Political conventions, the Super Bowl, the Grammy Awards, events that were handled in the past by ad hoc committees.

While Coutts defends the way matters were handled in the past, he also said there was room for improvement in the future.

"This is night and day from the way politics were handled in the past," said Denise Dresser, a political scientist at the Autonomous Technological Institute in Mexico City.

Kenya has been bungling all investigations it has handled in the past," said David Ohito, vice-chair of the Kenya Editors Guild.

As for the office's repeated appearances before the Supreme Court, Mr. Bowman said that they represented "less than two one-thousandths of one percent of the cases that the District Attorney's office has handled in the past 16 years".

"What has changed that should make us believe the Fed will be up to the task in the future that it so manifestly could not handle in the past?" President Obama's proposal would put the Fed squarely in charge of complex financial institutions — probably about 20 major bank holding companies and a few other giant institutions — that could jeopardize the financial system if they failed.

Charles J. Scicluna, who has said that of the 3,000 abuse cases handled in the past decade by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 60 percent involved priests attracted to adolescent boys; 30 percent involved heterosexual relations; and 10 percent concerned pedophilia, or sexual attraction toward prepubescent children.

The gambit does run counter to how these things have been handled in the recent past.

But what has flown quietly under the radar is the even more wildly disproportionate number of black students who are arrested on high school and even elementary school campuses for alleged behavior that in decades past was handled in the principal's office and with a call home to parents.

"The committee chairmen are handling this in an appropriate way, in a way very similar to the way committee chairmen handled nominees in the past," he said.