Sentence examples for term past from inspiring English sources

Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition.

(Though I do realise that labelling the when-did-you-last-wash-that-jumper? Foals as pop stars might be stretching the term past all credibility).

We can learn to see more deeply, through our fears and self-deceptions; more widely, beyond our self-absorption to a more inclusive capacity for care and concern; and longer term, past our immediate preoccupations and short-term cravings.

The National Front continues to question Mr. Karzai's legitimacy after a Supreme Court decision that allowed him to extend his term past its constitutional end on May 21 because the presidential election was delayed.

"Your witch hunt is now over," Hannity said, addressing the Republican special counsel who was unanimously confirmed as FBI director in 2001 by the U.S. Senate, which a decade later unanimously voted to extend his term past the 10-year limit.

And now we have been treated to the sustained escalation of Tory claims that Khan cannot be trusted with London's security because of what are usually termed past "links" with fellow Muslims who have expressed extreme views.

Paleontology studies such as this can "establish an ecosystem's long-term past before humans altered it," says invertebrate paleontologist Sally Walker of the University of Georgia, Athens.

The software, used by 60 police departments around the country, incorporates a narrow set of closely related crime events from both the immediate and longer-term past, with more recent crimes given heavier weight.

Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and local ecological knowledge (LEK) is knowledge held by indigenous and local cultures that often reflects the long-term past (TEK) and present (LEK) experience gained from the intimate involvement of humans with their local ecosystem (Berkes 1999; Chapman 2007; Martin et al. 2010).

Russian officials have typically condemned in the strongest terms past escalations in the violence.

But compared with the longer-term past, homeownership still looks relatively affordable: home prices are still undervalued and mortgage rates remain near historic lows.