Sentence examples for a rather successful from inspiring English sources

You had a rather successful career as an Off-Broadway actress and playwright ("Heddatron," "Mistakes Madeline Made").

And then he decided that this little sideline of his was shaping up to be a rather successful business.

Mascarell remains on the books at Real and has just enjoyed a rather successful campaign on loan at Sporting Gijón.

He has been in the public eye for more than a decade, first as a rather successful governor of Massachusetts and then as a chronic presidential candidate.

The study attributed that in part to "a rather successful apprenticeship system that ensures a relatively smooth transition from school to work for most youth".

One almost needs to be reminded that she has a day job as one-fifth of a rather successful pop group.

Holgorsen's air raid offense so caters to Smith that on a common, rather successful play, Austin motions in front of Smith, and when Smith receives the snap, he immediately pushes the ball with his palms, a touch pass, to Austin, who sprints around the edge and up the field.

Introducing heteroatoms and creating structural defects on graphene is a common and rather successful strategy to transform its inert basal plane into an efficient metal-free electrocatalyst for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR).

In other words, when Mr Santorum called the president a "snob" for wanting to send everybody in America to college, he was making a naked, and rather successful, appeal to class resentment.While Republicans more usually divide on social issues, says Stan Greenberg, a Democratic pollster, in Michigan the election saw a clear split along class lines.

"She really was a notable speaker and rather successful in leading the House, albeit for a short run," said Thomas E. Mann, a Congressional scholar at the Brookings Institution.

The first performance had an argumentative but ultimately rather successful reception.