Sentence examples for exactly a success from inspiring English sources

AS colonies go, Pondicherry was not exactly a success story.

Even in his relative youth, Frank's life is not exactly a success: his son has died, his attempt at a literary career has flopped, and his marriage has come undone.

When, as seems almost inevitable, the building of the Libyan peace starts getting untidy and inelegant to watch, let us remember that when we did it our way in Iraq and Afghanistan, it wasn't exactly a success either.

Both Fishback and Koester say that the departure was amicable and "for the best," but understandably a change of direction and the early whiff of attrition don't exactly a success story make, so to speak.

When I first hit the series at the start of the week, it knew it wasn't exactly a success story.

By that standard, efforts to update a land management planning rule for the National Forest System have not exactly been a success.

Dismissing Ukip as racist and extremist hasn't exactly been a success as a strategy recently, and mostly the other four panelists adopted a reasonable, emollient tone.

Its iTunes Radio service, currently only available in the US and Australia, has not exactly been a success and it has been left eating Pandora's dust.

Considering the short time left on his contract, it seems inevitable that Jones will be leaving the club before too long, after four seasons at the club that have not exactly been a success.

It should be noted that the club hadn't exactly made a success of the latter, given their grim record of financial crises in recent decades, but the proposals for a new league structure would seem to offer an opportunity to re-engage with the discontents.

Speaking of fantasies, the Palestinian people are going to have to give up their Jihad - which hasn't exactly been a success.