Sentence examples for need an exceptional from inspiring English sources

Though Republicans need an exceptional gain of 40 seats to take the majority's gavel away from Ms. Pelosi, "the House is in play," Mr. Rothenberg said.

This margin is down for Democrats from 2008, but Mr. Romney would nevertheless need an exceptional turnout on Tuesday to make up enough ground.

"We need an exceptional individual to lead the [BBC]Trust to get the best out of the BBC for licence fee payers".

At the time of writing Luton are 7-2 on to slip into the Conference, and the perceived wisdom seems to be that they'll need an exceptional, possibly title-winning, season to survive.

Verity had been advised by friends at the start of the season that he would need an exceptional performance to achieve selection on the 1932 33 Ashes tour of Australia; Alan Hill believes the performance against Nottinghamshire guaranteed Verity would be chosen to tour.

Critics have accused him of presiding over the most debt-ridden region of France; Corrèze was in the red to the tune of €363m (£300m) in 2011, around €1,400 per inhabitant, and needed an "exceptional" cash injection of €11m from state coffers.

The two homes are of different kinds, of course: mine is not a nursing home and doesn't take in people with dementia (although you can go pretty gaga once here without being moved to somewhere more specialised), whereas Ash Court does, and people with Alzheimer's can be very difficult and – alas – often boring to look after, needing an exceptional amount of patience and kindness.

A startup today needs an exceptional story to go public.

Ennis finished 129 points adrift after a poor javelin effort left her needing an exceptional 800m run to take gold.

"You need exceptional intelligence, exceptional skill, you need heart and physicality," he added.

Not shockingly, this very conflation of his eloquence with white racial identity leads pundits in another context to ask the obnoxious question, "But is he black enough?" The conundrum the candidate faces is that he need be an exceptional speaker and writer, but part of the "exceptional" here is the idea that he's an "exception" to his race.