Sentence examples for accomplished not much from inspiring English sources

Bob Kirsch Ossining, N.Y., April 23, 2008 To the Editor: As a contemporary of Paul Auster, I must respectfully disagree with his assertion that the 1968 protests at Columbia University accomplished "not much of anything".

Paul Broches New York, April 24, 2008 To the Editor: Paul Auster writes that the protesting Columbia students in 1968 accomplished "not much of anything" in that "the war dragged on for seven more horrible years".

In Manhattan, Mr. Espaillat recently dissolved a nonprofit group that had received hundreds of thousands of dollars in state money and accomplished not so much.

Nevertheless, in the case of Anselm, the very peculiar conjunction of faith and reason was accomplished not so much through any clear intellectual coordination as through the religious energy and saintliness of an unusual personality.

Mission accomplished, not that there was much doubt.

Because whatever your sport of choice, there is something uniquely special about seeing perfection accomplished, and not much in darts can equal the drama and the thrill of a nine-dart finish.

Not much was accomplished over the last eight years outside of promises on paper and some nice speeches by some politicians.

There was not much to accomplish here except to claim some sort of psychological edge before going home.

In a story on the stakes and the obstacles before the BRICS nations, our colleague Jim Yardley explained that the group had not accomplished very much before this, their fourth summit meeting, in New Delhi.

"But the fact that I hadn't accomplished much -- I don't know, it was like a sadness that would come back".

Still, the law hasn't accomplished as much as Brown and other advocates had hoped it would.