Sentence examples for almost exemplary from inspiring English sources

Roberto Bolaño had, to an almost exemplary extent, this sort of career.

Since then, his career has been almost exemplary – from sublime home-grown films like Stephen Frears Dirty Pretty Thingss (his Nigerian immigrant character inspired by his father) to smart Hollywood choices like Joss Whedon's Serenity.

The foundation of Stoke's recent excellent run comes from their almost exemplary defensive record; the meanest defence in the Premier League have conceded just three in their past seven games.

Jane, whose father had been a British army officer, is one of those remarkable people whose family origins in Ireland were overlaid by an almost exemplary Englishness, but whose residual loyalties took her back to Trinity to study.

The drive to breast feed, an excellent vaccination program, post natal visits by midwives are further initiatives that contribute to a very low, almost exemplary rate of Infant mortality.

I was almost an exemplary student, and received only one failing grade: in hatred.

This is not to say that director Steven Robman, who has guided world premieres by Wendy Wasserstein, Ron Hutchinson and others, doesn't know his way around the stage, showing great aplomb with an almost uniformly exemplary ensemble.

Unlike most of the great philosophers, Spinoza has a reputation for living an exemplary, almost saintly life, characterised by modesty, gentleness, integrity, intellectual courage, disregard for wealth and a lack of worldly ambition.

"Witnessing almost daily his exemplary statesmanship is one of the highest privileges I've had here," he said.

For the third year running, the country stands in open defiance of the European Union's deficit targets -- a plan for keeping the union's most financially challenged members in line that Germany itself conceived in an almost forgotten past of exemplary economic performance and close partnership with the United States.

Cole's career on the pitch has almost always followed an exemplary path, perhaps apart from when he publicly ignored referee Mike Riley's attempt to book him in a derby at Tottenham in 2008.