Sentence examples for not quite qualify from inspiring English sources

Assassinations are also common in authoritarian regimes that do not quite qualify as totalitarian.

As currently framed, however, Sanders's statement does not quite qualify for a Geppetto Checkmark.

Croatia does not quite qualify as an underdog -- not with players like Suker, Zvonimir Boban and Robert Jarni.

If that material did not quite qualify as a smoking gun, it came close enough for Mr. Blair.

Ms. Vanga's piece may not quite qualify as black humor, but it is succinctly and agreeably grim.

Compared with a sedentary lifestyle of video games and TV, an obsession with working out may not quite qualify as a health hazard.

Despite having a degree in microbiology, I am not quite qualified to comment on the epidemiological aspects of this work.

Even colleges with the word "new" in their name don't quite qualify.

Eitan Grinspun, the director of Columbia University's Computer Graphics Group, doesn't quite qualify as hairdresser to the stars.

(Although, with a population of 14,500, it probably doesn't quite qualify as a city).

But, even if it doesn't quite qualify as a classic comedy, it's definitely an important one.