A consultant for the developer had simply seen a Palm Springs, Calif., house that he had designed, liked it, and offered him the project.
She and a few friends had simply seen the same pictures as everyone else, believed someone had to do something and put out feelers on Facebook.
Successive crackdowns by Nigerian authorities have simply seen further radicalisation of Boko Haram factions and deepened the pool of potential members.
By later in the morning, evidently, Trump had also caught up on the article by Haberman and Thrush, although whether he had read it or had simply seen it being discussed on TV wasn't clear.
I was determined that, unlike the Laughton book – for which I had simply seen all the films, read all the available published sources and interviewed a few easily accessible people – the Welles biography would be a work of serious scholarship.
The reasons why Philip sought to destroy the Templars are unclear; he may have genuinely feared their power and been motivated by his own piety to destroy a heretical group, or he may have simply seen an opportunity to seize their immense wealth, being chronically short of money himself.
Yet one suspects Undset had simply seen so much of reality, so early, that any hint of idealism enraged her; perhaps she had been too hurt by life to dare to hope (though in 1924, drawn once again to Rome, she celebrated the annulment of her marriage by becoming that rarest of things in Scandinavia, a Roman Catholic).
The scientists admit that there could be other explanations for the rodent bones the grain-farming villagers could have simply seen them as meddlesome vermin that needed to be culled but the burn marks don't quite fit those theories.
She had simply seen a lot in her young life and was worldlier than the usual six-year-old because of it.
