Sentence examples for not an element of from inspiring English sources

Is there not an element of circularity at play here?

5 A demand, or request, by the public official was not an element of the offense.

It is strictly a metrical element, not an element of expression.

Unlike robbery, larceny by trick is not an element of felony murder.

Country music, however, was not an element of the culture that he readily embraced.

After many years promoted as Republican orthodoxy, eliminating the federal budget deficit is not an element of this budget.

Today, I ask him if there wasn't an element of braggadocio in his hacking conversations.

But I wondered if there wasn't an element of compliance in his response.

"I would be lying if I said there wasn't an element of relief," he admitted.

"I would be lying if I said there wasn't an element of escapism in my interest in art as a teenager," he tells me now.

But it would take a very credulous person to believe that there isn't an element of quid pro quo involved.