Sentence examples similar to not quite rules from inspiring English sources

And they had not quite ruled out the other Democrats either.

Jones has not quite ruled him out of the rest of the Six Nations.

Although North Korea has almost no credibility among neighboring countries, officials did not quite rule out the possibility that North Korea was telling the truth about a satellite.

Britannia did not quite rule the medal count, which still belonged to the United States, but it was a feel-very-good performance, one that should put quite a spring in their steps as they go back to minding the usual gap.

Of course, he hasn't quite ruled out prizefighting altogether.

Wouldn't quite rule out their topping the pool.

Larkin didn't quite rule it out either.

The minority can't quite rule, exactly, but it can, and does, use the rules to ruin.

The former governor of Alaska, and running mate of John McCain in an unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign, didn't come out and say she would be running for president, but she didn't quite rule out the possibility of running.

(A Department of Health and Human Services report on emergency-contraceptive pills minimizes this concern, but doesn't quite rule it out: "While it is possible that E.C.P.s might work by keeping a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterus, the most up-to-date research suggests that E.C.P.s do not work in this way").

In a very Merkel way, she hasn't quite ruled out changes in the Lisbon Treaty which annoys many British Eurosceptics - but she is not highlighting the need for large-scale change.