Sentence examples for were consoled for having from inspiring English sources

Passengers were consoled for having to stay on board by warnings that roads round the French port were in the grip of snow and dangerously icy conditions.

Nabokov was consoled by patterns in time and space, which for him had a nearly religious aura.

For one house here, the mystery has long been solved, but no one is consoled.

To me, religion has never been consoling.

Additionally, the game's use of realistic gameplay, which contrasted with the approaches taken by Doom-clones, and introduction of multiplayer deathmatch on a console are often credited for having revolutionised the genre.

When his daughter reports that her brother is, finally, "happy," Perlman unleashes a diatribe about all the therapeutic clichés with which people who aspire to be civilized console themselves for having compromised their vital obsessions.

Fine and dandy but like I said before, this ODROID thing is absolutely built for having old-school console emulators installed on it.

There's console up for grabs!

For as long as there have been game consoles, there has been the need for a TV set to use them with.

Both Sony and Microsoft have to produce hardware that will inspire developers as well as impress consumers: this is a much more complicated industry now; consoles are having to compete for development support with a whole host of devices – we're seeing a huge migration of small and mid-sized studios to PC and smartphone.

Nintendo's next console looks like it may just be the Nintendo console we've all been waiting for – at least since the Wii U was consigned to being the dustiest thing on our shelves.