Sentence examples for managed to float from inspiring English sources

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Until then, Mr. Romney largely managed to float above the fray during the televised debates.

Despite the newfound reluctance of investors to buy shares of untested companies, underwriters managed to float some landmark new issues.

Throughout the debt crisis, Germany has managed to float above the bad news, enjoying record employment, rock-bottom borrowing costs and export-led growth that kept chugging, in spite of the cloud hanging over the euro zone.

It is not surprising, then, at a time when Kenya has been stuck in a mire of stolen votes and riots, that the country still managed to float the main mobile phone company Safaricom.

Colonel Ponce, who became a general and the minister of defense in 1990, managed to float above the fray, protected by President Alfredo Cristiani, even after Mr. Cristiani agreed to purge the armed forces as part of a peace settlement between the FMLN and the government.

The firm still managed to float on the rising tide Thursday, inching up 19 cents, or 4.0%, to $4.89.

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Its president, Giorgio Napolitano, manages to float serenely above the political turmoil and use his largely honorary office to rein in some of the more outrageous antics of elected politicians.

But a morning downpour in Melbourne has not only ignited the beautiful scent of the gum trees, it has also softened the ground and I manage to float the ball 160 yards or so on to the green.

And while UVA sets an almost unreachable bar for dinner in every regard, UVB somehow manages to float above it, offering a tender experience that mere restaurants simply cannot achieve and demonstrating that Pairet can continue to make creative leaps even in such rarefied territory.

Newer ones, like the video application the company launched in May, are optional, but still manage to float to the top of popularity lists thanks to marketing and big development budgets.

As with all barrels though, every so often, a particularly juicy piece of bilge manages to float to the surface.

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