Sentence examples for he was static from inspiring English sources

A similar scenario played out in 2004, when Bush gained 2.8 percentage points from his 2000 effort nationwide (47.8% to 50.7%); yet he was static in Democratic vice-presidential candidate John Edwards' home state of North Carolina (56% to 56%).

In the first two matches he had moderate success with one half-century but the feeling was that he was static, a bat-hanger, and did not make use of his height.

Such an individual must not be abstract and formal (as, for example, in the early Greek Geometric style), nor should he be static and rigid (as in much ancient Egyptian sculpture), but his body and posture should be visibly animated by freedom and life, without, however, sacrificing the stillness and serenity that belongs to ideal self-containment.

In this universe, he is Static's benefactor, providing him new equipment, gaining him employment at STAR Labs and offering assistance in his crime fighting.

But when he clicked on the feature, all he got was static photos and some witty cutlines.

His cell phone rang, but all he heard was static.

All he got was static, but the hook was set.

Sharing the island with the birds and the bears, he had other things on his mind, and if he did pause to consider the Arctic climate, he assumed that it was static.

Because he was not well acquainted with recent work in astronomy, he assumed that the universe was static and unchanging.

He knew that no arrangement was static, and that sooner or later a player on his team would appear in a favorable position.

This contradicted the prevailing view that the universe was static, so he reluctantly introduced a "cosmological term" to stabilize his model of the universe.