Sentence examples for achieve as it from inspiring English sources

Progress is not always as easy to achieve as it appears.

Such a move would be virtually impossible to achieve, as it would require ratification by three-quarters of the country's 50 states.

It also failed to make the case for the improvements in some benefits it did achieve, as it pursued redistribution by stealth.

The name on the street was harder to achieve, as it often is for officers killed in the line of duty.

(This is not as easy to achieve as it sounds, as evidenced by the Mad Hatter outfits worn on Friday by Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice).

What's most interesting to me is the way we pretty much all constantly use drugs to put ourselves into psychological states that we feel the moment demands but that we cannot achieve, as it were, organically — to combat fatigue, anxiety, introversion, moodiness, apathy, hormonal change, etc.

It can be a sign that it has achieved as much as it can, or that the trustees have recognised their limits and want to hand over to someone else.

It's "happiness," of course, and it is achieved as far as it can be in this setting, a peculiar blend of psychological consolation mixed with, more often than not, an un-nameable sense of spiritual desolation.

But Russia now has to weigh up if it has achieved as much as it can by covert means.

The mayor said he had been impressed by Socialist Action's policy of achieving as much as it could through reforms of the system.

But my money wasn't achieving as much as it could.