Sentence examples for decidedly did from inspiring English sources

That influence decidedly did not come as a matriculant.

He decidedly did not have his ear to the ground.

In New York City, the dew point was 74 on Friday — but that decidedly did not feel as if the city was getting off easy.

There were probably nervous flutters before showtime from the organisers, who decidedly did not want a repeat of 2004's Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction".

Huckabee has criticized the former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for his shifting position on abortion, and for promising to be better for gay rights than Ted Kennedy (which he decidedly did not turn out to be).

For some, a Carnival without spirits is hardly a Carnival at all, a Bacchanalia without the bacchanals (unless you count the politicians, which many people on the parkway decidedly did not).

The writing workshop edict is that characters in short stories should grow and change, and Schlink's decidedly do — but they're not sure they want to.

7.This includes referring to the soda tax as if it were a grocery tax, implying that soda = food, which it decidedly does not.

Santorum checks all of these boxes, while Mitt Romney – his Michigan ties and attempts to play the tribune of the middle class notwithstanding – decidedly does not.

Department officials said Mr. Holder had not intended to assert any policy change last month but was decidedly doing so on Wednesday.

BILL SWEENEY Shorewood, Wis., Nov. 21, 2011 The Writer Responds My proposal for Internet companies to consider, in appropriate circumstances, a real-name policy decidedly does not include a call for the end of anonymity on the Internet.