Sentence examples for supervened from inspiring English sources

A sudden thaw supervened to hamper the Red Army's transport of supplies and reinforcements across the swollen courses of the great rivers.

But the grime of the city soon supervened and obscured them again.

If education hadn't supervened, I might have grown into someone just like Alison," the medium in Beyond Black who tours the Home Counties with her psychic show.

In Mrs Pretty's case a terrible irony supervened: were she capable of moving one arm, she could lawfully commit suicide, but because she is paralysed she cannot, and therefore needs help; but aiding suicide is a criminal offence, and the law would not offer immunity to anyone who helped her.

Then, after London and Stockholm, the 1916 Olympics should have been held in Berlin (that's one for Trivial Pursuit), but other events supervened.

So Moore's doctrine of organic unities was driven by his idea that non-instrumental value was an intrinsic property, or at least supervened on intrinsic properties.

Such circumstances shall include, but not be limited to, weather conditions, fire, flood, hurricane, strike, industrial dispute, war, hostilities, political unrest, riots, civil commotion, inevitable accidents, supervening legislation or any other circumstances amounting to force majeure.

Suppose psychological states supervene on physical states.

Moreover, it supervenes on other properties.

If, however, these are each genuine possibilities, facts about the identity of persons over time do not supervene upon any physical or psychological facts.

Indeed, many such views will even endorse stronger principles, such as that the chances supervene on the physical properties of the trial device alone, or that the chance depends on some particular dispositional property of the chance setup (as in propensity theories).