Sentence examples for he achieved nothing from inspiring English sources

He achieved nothing decisive and was forced to accept a truce lasting until 1220.

Had he achieved nothing else afterwards, this was a mini-era to set his name in stone.

And he achieved nothing by putting hip pads in a silver-beaded sheath except to reveal a capacity to completely lose sight of proportion.

In 1624 Mansfeld went to England to raise an army for a new anti-Habsburg coalition, and, although he achieved nothing in 1625, he and his allies devised a bold strategy for the following year: while Christian IV of Denmark fought Tilly in Lower Saxony and Prince Gábor Bethlen of Transylvania attacked in Hungary, Mansfeld would march on Bohemia.

If he achieves nothing else in his career, then at least he will have done society a favour by encouraging his spotty-faced target demographic, pale and blinking, out of their bedrooms and into the light, even if only for the time that it takes them to get from house to cinema.

If the average man today is obsessed with sex, it is partly because it seems to him the only sphere in which he is a free agent, in which his failures and his triumphs are really his; hence if he fails here, he has achieved nothing with his life".

While his speech to Israeli students on Thursday was widely praised, he risked accusations that he had achieved nothing of substance.

When a double portrait of artists Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst founders – "He was making a truly shit painting" – he knows he is done, despite the critics' confidence that he has achieved nothing less than an artistic history of the post-industrialised world.

When a gentile Englishman says he has achieved nothing and is really rather useless, he is usually just making conversation, and may well be quite pleased with himself.

He has achieved nothing of the kind.

He has achieved nothing radical in either field.