Sentence examples for past or ongoing from inspiring English sources

I'm hoping adoptive parents will use the comments to discuss how they decided upon adoption, and whether they use the word in its past or ongoing tense.

In other findings, the presence of a nearby competing venue had a negative effect on an Olympic site's viability, not surprisingly, as did the weight of a past or ongoing financial burden and the general public malaise surrounding a site's disuse.

Is there therefore any real merit to all the clamoring for splitting up the financial behemoths to ensure that we do not go through another financial crisis like the one just past (or ongoing)?

First, we can report and describe past or ongoing changes in biodiversity.

That seeps along continental margins show a past or ongoing connection with shallow water may seem odd at the first sight.

Comparisons among gene trees can clarify historical relationships among species, and the examination of topological conflicts among trees can reveal complicating factors such as retention of ancestral genetic polymorphism, past or ongoing gene exchange, allopolyploidy, or a combination of these.

While it may be tempting to just throw two characters together into a locked room or dark cave, where they will eventually resort to a kiss, a more effective technique is to use past conflicts or ongoing conflicts between the characters to create a convincing build up to the kiss.

The exclusion criteria for the control group were the same as above, except for additionally excluding those with a past or an ongoing history of ADHD.

Most veterans of past and ongoing wars do function well enough, or at least as well as most civilians.

Further work is needed on determining host species use before we can test the importance of other ecological factors (e.g. phenology or regional representation of both hosts and parasites) on past and ongoing evolution of these associations.

Muslims are urging non-Muslims to celebrate an important past, which does not preclude that past, or any past, from remaining subject to ongoing, critical assessment.