Sentence examples for no better even from inspiring English sources

Modern writers fare no better: even his great friend, the late Anthony Powell, did not escape Naipaul's sharp tongue.

Yet business is no better even in countries with more manufacturing muscle than financial flab.

The result is that the world's greatest broadcasting organisation is in danger of becoming just another bunch of penny scribblers; no better, even if no worse, than the run of popular journalism.

Whatever his current popularity, I'd say the odds for success are no better than even.

By signing Mourning, by wasting time on Eddie Griffin, by failing to upgrade their roster the way other contenders have, the Nets are no better than even money to beat a maturing Indiana team or Detroit with Rasheed Wallace.

But now Mr. Bush has spent most of that $70 million and, after a bruising battle with Senator John McCain, the polls have him running no better than even with Mr. Gore.

The chances of completing it at all do not look good.When Mr Lamy invited trade ministers to the WTO's lakeside headquarters to try and shape an agreement, the odds were no better than evens.

One example is Souza Cruz (a subsidiary of BAT), Brazil's largest tobacco company, which in the days of high inflation did no better than break even on its cigarette sales.

But after the event they may well be aggrieved if they discover that their family is little or no better off – or even worse off – as a result of having had higher earnings.

Weeks later, the company admitted that after write-downs, it would do no better than break even this year; it had been forecasting profits of £60m only three months earlier.

But the approval ratings of the Democratic incumbent, Kay Hagan, are no better than break-even, which means that a merely decent Republican nominee could make the race very competitive.