Sentence examples for might have rested from inspiring English sources

The parliamentary session resumed and there the matter might have rested, as so many have before.

But Torre said he might have rested Jeter late in tonight's game had it been a rout.

Sir Miles was ticked off by the Times a few days later and there the matter might have rested.

While Cheika might have rested easy in his bed if Folau had failed to pass muster – the former rugby league and Australian Rules player has been less captivating than usual over the course of this tournament, so the coach must have been tempted to run the brilliant Kurtley Beale in his place – the loss of Sio would have wrecked his peace of mind.

"I might have stayed in bed this morning," remarked Melvyn Bragg yesterday, and although he was making a point about this week's discussion of free will, indeed after 499 In Our Times, he might have rested up rather than turning up at Broadcasting House to present the 500th.

Where others might have rested on their laurels and cynically released a lowest-common-denominator disc of popular guitar music which would have inevitably sold gazillions, the industrious Miloš has instead gone back to what he has always done best – work, work, work – and has pushed himself to produce a new album Aranjuez,  his most exceptional artistry yet.

This positive assessment might well have rested on a misunderstanding, since Ponge seemed to have had the exact opposite view of language as Sartre, and regarded poetry precisely as the form that would best be able to "name the world" and make human freedom face its responsibility.

"Then it might be possible, after the drawings have rested for a suitable period".

You might say that Google has rested on its laurels for a bit too long, and, in the meantime, Blekko seems to have been taking the necessary steps to make search a more pleasurable and less spam-loaded experience.

Pietersen might have been rested anyway but his thigh strain now surely guarantees his absence.

Pellegrini shrugged off any suggestion that Kompany might have been rested for the game due to the tie appearing comfortable.