Sentence examples for ever achieving anything from inspiring English sources

O'Hagan portrays Assange as a Walter Mitty-like fantasist whose absorption with grand and unrealisable schemes prevents him from ever achieving anything practical.

No other driver had ever achieved anything like it.

After all, it's not as if they ever achieved anything.

Nobody has ever made such a public commitment, and nobody has ever achieved anything like this.

No government has ever achieved anything like that reduction in public spending.

If fascism ever achieved anything it was to stand as a warning against itself.

In the pursuit of sailboat racing, around-the-world and around-the-buoys, no one has ever achieved anything quite like it.

Mr. Naumov said scouts were able to tell young athletes, presumably with a straight face: "Look, you could be a runner or a soccer player, but nobody from our town has ever achieved anything in running or soccer.

The supreme chronicler of female desire as experienced by the gamine to the grande dame, here we see her poised between the turmoil of youth and the tranquillity (if she ever achieved anything so dull) of old age.

We've been told for years that no mass movement has ever achieved anything, that charities are corrupt and futile, that anyone in trouble is a liar or an immutable self-fulfilling prophesy.

Quite apart from the fact nobody has ever achieved anything remotely like this before – not even one of the many fine Brazilian teams in history, not even the Germans themselves previously – it lulled the country into a sense of security that turned out to be very false indeed.