While serving in that office, he enjoyed telling people that the commonly held view that the Order of Saint Patrick was extinct was quite false.
"Hopefully sharks will become commercially extinct rather than actually extinct.
Unfortunately for him and others like him, the fullback position, while not quite extinct, has become an afterthought in the N.F.L. Fullback was once a relatively glamorous position.
The politician's wife who poses for photographs, make cups of tea and gives birth occasionally is, if not quite extinct, then at least an endangered species.
This attitude infected certain bleak redoubts of the state educational system for nearly 30 years and is still not quite extinct.
Still, this set affords a splendid opportunity to luxuriate in a voice of a species that has become endangered if not quite extinct.
But Francis' tone so far is interesting not just as a departure for the church but as a counterpoint to the prevailing sensibility in our country, where humility is endangered if not quite extinct.
According to a February report from the camera industry group PMA, film cameras were not quite extinct until 2004, when most digital models took pictures with resolutions greater than four megapixels — allowing users to print high-quality images in conventional sizes.
Unfortunately for him and others like him, the fullback position, while not quite extinct, has become an afterthought in the N.F.L. Page B13 Style DAUGHTERS OF LITERARY ELITE TELL THEIR OWN STORIES This spring and summer, three daughters of larger-than-life writers have explored the complicated privilege of their upbringings in books of their own.
After some historically short period, the isolated population (if it is not extinct, which is quite probable) will become more or less different from the species to which the isolated group had belonged.
