Sentence examples for the appearance of a certain from inspiring English sources

KABUL, Afghanistan — For months, the secret talks unfolding between Taliban and Afghan leaders to end the war appeared to be showing promise, if only because of the appearance of a certain insurgent leader at one end of the table: Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, one of the most senior commanders in the Taliban movement.

When he enters the interrogation room, a witness notes him as "a handsome man with the appearance of a certain kind of priest... suggesting a basic bent towards such kindness and indulgence as he might be able to reconcile with the strict rules of his calling".

Or as incongruous as an eighties movie trailer backed by the bass drone: It seemed as though we had survived a dark time, and made it safely to the other side, when roughly two minutes and twenty seconds of the new "Star Trek" trailer had elapsed without the appearance of a certain ear-splitting and maddeningly ubiquitous action-movie-trailer musical cue.

By Ian Crouch March 27, 2013 It seemed as though we had survived a dark time, and made it safely to the other side, when roughly two minutes and twenty seconds of the new "Star Trek" trailer had elapsed without the appearance of a certain ear-splitting and maddeningly ubiquitous action-movie-trailer musical cue.

Today, when I rub the bump above my eyebrow, I like to think it bred a certain toughness — or at least the appearance of a certain toughness — but I have never found myself wishing a similar injury upon my 5-year-old son, Charlie.

This results in the appearance of a certain diurnal pattern of the observed MSTID azimuths.

That year also saw the appearance of a lengthy political tract (Discussion of Certain Writers of Brandenburg … [Discussio quorundam scriptorum Brandeburgicorum …]) justifying Sweden's entry into the Dutch War (1672 1678) on the side of France, particularly its unprovoked attack (1674) on Brandenburg.

When Bart is taken to Mostel's gallows, Lamar comes up with a plan to send him into the town of Rock Ridge, certain that the appearance of a black sheriff will be enough to tear the town to pieces.

And for reasons that are not immediately obvious, they revere certain individuals: The appearance of a person called Susan Sarandon, on behalf of a product called SodaStream, caused great excitement.

Number six is the first appearance of a certain boy wizard, a story that takes us back to the heady excitement of the last ever Harry Potter book.

Amino acid periodicity was defined as the regular appearance of a certain amino acid group (X), Y (Y ≥ 3) times in a protein sequence with a period (the number of amino acids from one appearance to the next) of Z.