Sentence examples for reason at hand from inspiring English sources

") In the end, you come to feel that the real continuity is so pervasive that it needs no tradition to feed it; people torture other people everywhere for any reason at hand.

(He quotes the great Italian historian of the Inquisition Carlo Ginzburg crying out at a Vatican meeting, "Not sorry. Sorry is easy.... I want to hear the Catholic Church — I want to hear the pope — say he is ashamed. ") In the end, you come to feel that the real continuity is so pervasive that it needs no tradition to feed it; people torture other people everywhere for any reason at hand.

People were all too ready to grasp whatever reason was closest at hand to vote for something else – whether the SNP, Ukip or the Tories.

In a speech at a fund-raising luncheon in Detroit, Mr. McCain also implicitly criticized Mr. Obama in suggesting that his trip to Iraq — the schedule for which remains undisclosed, partly for security reasons — might be at hand.

So in a particular case, an individual may see that there are reasons to obey the assembly and some reasons against obeying the assembly and in the case at hand the reasons against obedience outweigh the reasons in favor of obedience.

These findings gave reason for the investigation at hand aiming at validating recently published deposition maps which were derived by a Regression Kriging approach [12, 13].

You are woken suddenly by their voices; sounds drift briefly from far away, and then for no good reason are inaudible from close at hand.

Big donors will have reason to keep their checkbooks close at hand, and the politicians counting on them will have reason to give them access.

With sublime indifference to the weighty matter at hand, he reasons: "I have been drinking all night.

A later court cannot treat the case as wrongly decided, unless it is able and willing to overrule it The idea that a precedent is reaching a conclusion on the balance of reasons in the particular case at hand makes sense of a number of other features of common law judgments.

However, as many studies on lifespan in Drosophila show, there are a number of biological differences between males and females that affect survival for reasons unrelated to the investigation at hand.