Sentence examples for has lived down from inspiring English sources

Antigua's financial regulator has lived down to its reputation for being supine even by Caribbean standards.

Indeed, the 53-year-old Mr. Gysi is a more compelling and complicated character than Mr. Wowereit: witty, eloquent, ironic, a trained lawyer and national legislator who has lived down a file showing some collaboration (on behalf of his clients, he says) with the Communists' old Stasi secret police.

So, when it all happened, he called and said, 'Well you called it.' And it has lived down to the ages and it feels so great when I hear it being played from him".

GKN was a candidate for the next poor update and it has lived down to expectations.

"That's our struggle," said Louise Tietjen, who has lived down the road from the house for 40 years.

Big 12 teams have gone 2-2, while the Big Ten has lived down to expectations by going 2-3.

"I've lived down on the shoreline literally all my life," he said.

I've lived down in SoHo, now in the West Village.

With jobs (or the lack of them) a central theme in the presidential campaign, many trade analysts feared an outbreak of anti-Chinese protectionism this year.The Democrats have lived down to expectations.

He has been steadily groomed for his position as monarch," said NRC Handelsblaad this week, noting that the prince had lived down his young bachelor days as "Prins Pils" (the beer prince).

Thanks in large part to Russia, the ally and enabler of President Bashar Assad, international negotiations designed to end Syria's brutal civil war have lived down to expectations.