Sentence examples for pertained not from inspiring English sources

That evaluation pertained not to Christie's ability to seduce voters but to his character, writ in love handles and chins.

The divine or superhuman character pertained not only to the king but also, in lesser measure, to his family.

The human element pertained not only to the operating staff but also to the management of nuclear plants and even the NRC itself.

The Mets are looking to reduce their payroll, meaning questions to Alderson pertained not to high-profile free agents, but to things like whether the team will tender a contract to center fielder Angel Pagan.

Then as now, the deposition of Henry IV was the most hotly debated action taken by Gregory VII, who pursued to its logical conclusion his conviction that papal primacy pertained not only to the spiritual sphere but to the secular sphere as well.

The symbolism pertains not only to the expanded building itself, but also to the whole historic waterfront in Hoboken, which is being transformed by new construction, he said.

If Rauch's work is nightmarish, as some critics have asserted, the effect pertains not to its dramas but to their mockery of understanding.

It's like 'Hey, we're not so dumb after all".' And the same thing is going on now as it pertains not to the Soviet Union but to Asians.

Well, that causes me some problems that pertain not just to the equal protection aspect of this, but to the rationality of the Supreme Court's opinion, because the Supreme Court opinion, on the one hand, said, as you've just repeated, that there was to be de novo review by the circuit judge in Leon County.

'Identity' pertains not only to how we see ourselves, but how others view us.

These questions pertain not only to the Mohists' philosophy of language, but to their epistemology.