Sentence examples for were hastened by from inspiring English sources

While the blueprint and the conference had been under discussion for some time, both were hastened by deadly shootings in recent weeks.

The critics' poor response to Eyes Wide Shut was only part of the reason for these waves of reassessment: they were hastened by what appeared to be a Kubrick bandwagon which Warner Bros, the Kubrick estate and Steven Spielberg suddenly appeared to be riding into town.

The King was orphaned at the age of two, in 1712, when in one traumatic fortnight he lost his entire family — parents and siblings — to a violent contagion, though their deaths were hastened by the court physician, Dr. Fagon: "killer of Princes," as Mitford calls him.

This suggests that deaths that were imminent in individuals with severe respiratory diseases were hastened by exposure to high temperatures, resulting in short-term mortality displacement.

We found little evidence to suggest that the regression of secondary sexual characteristics were hastened by exposure to Bd, but we found some support for the possibility that breeding season duration might be curtailed.

Others say it was hastened by hours of intensive interrogation.

The club's decline was hastened by it having been favoured by the notorious dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

The erosion could be hastened by the expected endorsement of Obama by Ted Kennedy on Monday.

For others, such conflicts are still being unravelled, a process which is being hastened by legislation.

The neighborhood's decline was hastened by the decommissioning of the shipyard in the 1970s.

Lady Thatcher's fall from power was hastened by the resignation of cabinet peers.