Sentence examples for manage only to from inspiring English sources

China's outrageous provocations manage only to elicit "disappointment" in New Delhi.

A staggering 80% of poor black American males will manage only to acquire criminal convictions.

Very few cartoonists can also write — or, if they can, they manage only to hit a few familiar notes.

There's something provocative about Mr. Williams's attempt to join together so many conflicting, contradictory influences, even if in the end they manage only to cancel one another out.

For all their efforts, Mr. Moshinsky and Mr. Hudson manage only to put a theatrical gloss on an essentially inert work.

In October 1984 the young priest was murdered by government agents, but Glemp could manage only to urge of a "spirit of Christian acceptance" in the wake of the death.

He has managed only to maintain his presence within it.

But it has managed only to stabilize the ballet school.

The Detroit goalie Mark Laforest managed only to slow it down.

So she managed only to heighten the impression of ill-co-ordinated floundering.

We managed only to establish that Tapka was not our dog.