Sentence examples for did not represent anything from inspiring English sources

Thankfully, the Occupy encampments across America, and the state power arrayed against them, did not represent anything like the forces of revolution or of oppression that we've seen in those foreign uprisings.

The polls point to a conclusion Secor cannot face: The Green movement did not lose its struggle with Iran's established order because of brutal repression; the movement lost because, even at its height, it did not represent anything close to a majority of Iranians.

Tanaka has said the Vikings was a nickname for deputies assigned to the Lynwood station and did not represent anything sinister.

In other words, while the election may have been a repudiation of the laissez-faire, free market, trickle-down element of conservatism, it said nothing of the kind about other, in some cases even uglier elements in the American Right, and did not represent anything like a wholesale repudiation of the "Republican Brand".

The whole point was that we didn't represent anything at all.

Which does not represent anything, which has no history, no soul, no meaning, no coherence".

That would be fine, but OPEC does not represent anything resembling a free market, and a free market does not protect our environment.

But he added that the group's beliefs "probably do not represent anything close" to mainstream points of view in the military.

In contrast, consider a star or a stone: on the face of it, it does not make sense to ask what they are about; stars and stones do not represent anything at all.

The focus in the West on the antigovernment demonstrations has blinded many to an inconvenient but inescapable truth: the Iranians who used Ashura to make a political protest do not represent anything close to a majority.

Town leaders and others entrusted with protecting the area's image are not proud of such sentiment, and they assert that it does not represent anything close to a majority view.