Sentence examples for not quite managed from inspiring English sources

It will hardly recover now too late for that but he might at least become the Democrats' leader again.Some would say he has not quite managed that yet.

The Bulls are rebuilding, and the orchestra has not quite managed to maintain its old luster, despite the manifold gifts of its current music director, Daniel Barenboim.

Even now, half a century after his death, German lepidopterists have not quite managed to shake off the hypnotic spell occasioned by his authority.

And the smallest possible quantity in chemistry is, of course, a single atom.Robert Eichler, of the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, and his colleagues have not quite managed that, but they have come close.

Seen on their own here, they ricochet tantalizingly among nature, art, craft and design, and they make good, as her yarn paintings have not quite managed to, on her devotion to noncanonical art materials.

Russia has not quite managed to bully Moldova into accepting a confederation; and the West, only fitfully attentive, and handicapped by Moldova's erratic behaviour, cannot dislodge the regime in Transdniestria.

He did not quite manage to reunite the Beatles.

But even Mr Blagojevich, flamboyant and loquacious as he is, could not quite manage that.

Halfords is pedalling hard, but not quite managing to stand still.

Britain did not quite manage to replicate the medal haul seen in Beijing earlier this year.

Tuilagi did not quite manage to knock down Ashton, despite landing three punches.