Sentence examples for was illustrated when from inspiring English sources

The pressure this puts on the commanders was illustrated when Gen McChrystal visited Marjah.

Prince's ability to provoke an audience was illustrated when he supported the Rolling Stones in San Francisco, and was pelted with shoes and chicken's innards.

Yet Slutsky's true calling was illustrated when managing a first team, Olympia Volgograd – who, despite being the city's second club behind Rotor Volgograd, had a renowned academy.

For the Americans, the changing nature of the war was illustrated when Mr. Hagel stopped to transfer to a command plane at Ramstein.

The big questions notwithstanding, a different view of paper textbooks was illustrated when I received a paperback birthday present from my son-in-law.

Just how hard that introspection has been was illustrated when Grass, a moral reference to the Bundesrepublik, broke a 61-year silence and revealed that he served as a 17-year-old in the Waffen SS.

The strange effect is illustrated when you look at the words below.

His point is illustrated when a new member refuses to say anything other than that he's making a clothes pole for an elderly neighbour.

But the difficulties facing her were illustrated when the moderator asked her a more general question: "Do you approve of the job President Obama is doing?

Lee Westwood is not one of them; as is illustrated when the 43-year-old is asked to recall the Open Championships he played at Royal Troon in 1997 and 2004.

But the difficulties of concerted international action were illustrated when members of the UN security council debated a statement criticising Syria as Russian diplomats sought to water down a European draft.