Sentence examples for not really achieved from inspiring English sources

"There may be times when we feel that what we have done has not really achieved great results, sometimes there may be regressions, but that doesn't matter.

Another former cabinet minister, Peter Lilley, said: "If we can't overcome the two doctrines of Europe – that everybody is heading in the same direction, and that powers can only ever go to the central institutions and never come back to the states – then he'll have not really achieved anything".

France did not really achieve a stable democracy until nearly a century after the fall of the Bastille.

The conductor, Alan Pierson, has attempted to reconstruct the first (1977) version of a score that has never been one of Reich's most popular, and which does not really achieve anything that the magnificent Music for 18 Musicians (composed just before it) did not do rather more effectively, though it is still fascinating to hear now.

The study concludes that the present strategy is bureaucratic, financially burdensome, and does not really achieve the essential goals of DRR in saving lives and reducing vulnerability.

SH And you don't really achieve revenge, do you?

"A lot of people make headlines, but they don't really achieve anything".

"You can't really achieve anything in three years," she says.

Their monstrous protagonists don't really achieve anything that resembles salvation; instead, they just become more successful at being monsters.

Whether we're talking about contemporary art or we're talking about family, pretending that I feel something I don't feel doesn't really achieve anything.

"We've got to make sure that the folks in Washington understand that if it's just essentially a shift of these expenses from the federal government to the state governments and state taxpayers, that doesn't really achieve anything".