Sentence examples for had managed to exist from inspiring English sources

His work shows how these two leading city-states of classical Greece, which had managed to exist peacefully for decades, ultimately found themselves in a ruinous war that neither desired.

"Maybe she had become that type of wife, the ones who couldn't go anywhere apart from their husband," Nadia observes of Aubrey, "who kept calling him to check in and spent the whole time feeling guilty and displaced like an organ that had managed to exist outside the body".

Click here to view The natural successors to Girls Aloud, the Saturdays were launched as the support act on Girls Aloud's 2008 arena tour and have managed to exist – flourish, at times – in Girls Aloud's shadow for half a decade.

Every time I move I find a rat king of discarded charger cables somewhere and think about unknotting it and detangling it and labelling each one, but then more often go "you have managed to exist for a year without the use of any of these cords – throw them all in the bin".

As if Falco's New York, the grimy-but-still-glitzy city that had managed to survive the Depression and World War II, still existed.

"The minister does not understand that this insect is a frequent and natural visitor, that it has always existed and the forest has managed to survive," Jagiełło said.

I had managed to not remember that it existed until right this moment and now it's there again.

By then, 61 of the original group had ceased to exist; of the remainder, only 18 had managed to stay in the top 100.

The car never took off because Tucker owed everyone money and had managed to scare every major carmaker but the result of his genius still exists right here.

Somehow we had managed to fill them.

A year later, 41 percent had managed to stay abstinent.