Sentence examples for had quite achieved from inspiring English sources

This was a measure of creative and commercial control that no popular musician, black or white, had quite achieved, and for years afterward he kept the tapes in a bag that was with him at all times.

If none of his subsequent books have quite achieved the popular-­fiction perfection of his debut, they have been consistently thoughtful and absorbing — and increasingly melancholy.

No region of Canada has quite achieved the necessary critical mass of big pharma companies.

Somehow, no game has quite achieved that since".

If this had happened to me and I hadn't quite achieved that then it would have been a lot harder to take.

Such global unity was something that no peacemaker, politician or prophet had ever quite achieved.

It accomplished less for Goldwater than it did for Reagan himself; it propelled him, immediately and justifiably, into a kind of stardom that he had never quite achieved in Hollywood.

I took in the show during its tryout at the Hartford Stage, and although many of the new songs were really strong, the show hadn't quite achieved the magical, transportive feel that it's going to need to succeed on Broadway.

Chief executive Luke Negus-Hill said: "In our first season [in the WSL] we got to fourth place and the ambition was to finish above that and we haven't quite achieved it, results haven't always gone our way.

I don't care that you haven't quite achieved or perhaps haven't even started working toward your goals for this new year.

Others have been writing well for years but have not quite achieved the renown they deserve.