Sentence examples for pertain, because from inspiring English sources

These terms pertain because Jaromir Jagr, the best hockey player in the world, is Czech.

Judge Politan said the law did not pertain because student participation was voluntary.

The guidelines drawn up under the Clinton administration "no longer pertain," she said, because the criteria specified by President Bush "capture the essential elements of the guidelines and supplant them".

He referred to a longstanding anomaly, the so-called "West Lothian Question", by which Scottish MPs vote in Westminster on policies which do not pertain to Scots, because the issues concerned, for example health and education, have been devolved to their own parliament.

Relatively reliable identification of helminths in faeces would pertain to Ascaris because the worms are big, conspicuous and sometimes numerous [ 20].

Of the total number of 374 items, 256 (68%) were allocated to one single domain, 94 (25%) matched with more than one domain and 24 (6%) could not be mapped into it either because they did not clearly pertain to environment or because the purposes of the items in question were unclear to the raters.

"Introspective questions like 'Who am I? and 'How can I be that person?' didn't pertain to me then, because I already knew the answer," Beatty writes.

Ms. Schapiro said specifically that she was unable to consult any notes, e-mails or memos that might pertain to the matter because she had asked the inspector general to begin gathering relevant materials, and therefore her testimony was based only on her memory about the encounters with Mr. Becker.

These results may also pertain to asthmatic patients, because increasing minute ventilation can cause dyspnea and bronchospasm in this population.

The third type comprised simplistic/changeful and artificial/spontaneous, called modernity factors because they pertain to the modern sense of beauty of the parts.

It is important to note that all of the carbon pools and carbon flux data presented in this study refer to the projected horizontal area because they pertain to montane forest stands (with an average slope of 33°).