Sentence examples for good segment of from inspiring English sources

The easiest metaphor of all is, of course, Favre, with a good segment of the football-watching public likely in favor of applying more lighter fluid and toasting marshmallows over the embers.

Confidence is important, but we also have to recognize that the decision to commit 30,000 more troops to a counterinsurgency effort against a good segment of the Afghan population, with the focus on converting a deeply unpopular and corrupt regime into a unified, centralized state for the first time in that country's history, is far from a slam dunk.

Senator Ernest F. Hollings, the South Carolina Democrat who is chairman of the committee and sponsor of the bill, complained that "other than the progressive-minded companies, Hewlett-Packard and others, still a good segment of the industry opposes this bill".

And last Sunday, a good segment of the country watched on television as Carl Krauser, now a rugged 6-foot-2, 200-pound sophomore point guard, led third-seeded Pittsburgh to the Round of 16 in the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament with a 59-55 victoverover sixth-seeded Wisconsin.

A good segment of the Tour is filled with long-drive specialists who can put low numbers on a scorecard.

But, he said, "it is a challenge if good segments of the community are getting much of their information from a source that is predominantly critical".

The fact of the matter is, despite the apparent contrast between it and Trump, good segments of evangelical Christianity share that ethos, the existential revenge or resentment that Trump touts and uses to his advantage.

As shown in Figure 3A, COW searches for good segment boundaries in only a limited area of alignment space.

The Branded Consumer Goods segment consists of five sub segments: Orkla Foods, Orkla Confectionery & Snacks, Orkla Home & Personal, Orkla International and Orkla Food Ingredients.

To buttress his point, Winston cited exit poll data showing that 45 percent of the electorate described the economy as "not so good," a segment of the voting public that should have been a prime Republican target.

Hemingway revealed the artist's life as it is lived to a good size segment of the American public.