Sentence examples for when it existed from inspiring English sources

Even when it existed in sufficient numbers to terrorize Tasmanian farmers, the thylacine seemed half imaginary, a threshold creature that slunk along the borders of the real.

Between 1795 and 1918 the city was controlled by Austria, except from 1809 to 1815, when it existed as part of the Duchy of Warsaw, and from 1815 to 1846, when, with its surrounding territory, it formed an independent republic.

When it existed, hundreds of millions of people in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Pacific were colonised by Britain, ruled against their will, enslaved, exploited as cheap labour and had their lands stripped of natural resources.

Two solid young mainstream players, on piano and vibraphone -- the sort of guys who you used to see at good old Bradley's, when it existed -- lead a quartet that includes the bassist Essiet Essiet and the drummer Tony Redus.

Difference, when it existed, was often only a narrative driver of change, something to be fought and overcome – the fat character finding happiness by losing weight, the nerd obtaining a life-changing makeover.

I guess I was very, very lucky to start at that time when it existed, and it doesn't now.

But even democracy brings its own temptations when it exists in a hyperpower.

True respect for life includes recognizing not just when it exists, but when it ceases to be meaningful.

(In "primitive" societies, when it exists at all, it is typically a passing malady).

Cautionary labeling, when it exists, is not always obvious to consumers.

Their economic potency, when it exists, rests on the strength of individual leaders, or on favorable but temporary circumstances.