Sentence examples for pretty unsatisfactory from inspiring English sources

But 51% in favour is a pretty unsatisfactory position - it's 1% off I don't know.

He recalls: "We came to a pretty unsatisfactory political conclusion: that Gordon wouldn't leave; that there was no alternative leader in prospect; and that there was an inevitability that we must just soldier on".

Most of all, I have found myself wondering about the pretty unsatisfactory set of circumstances, away from the public shows of grief, that have distorted the headlines during the last week and put the clubs at odds with one another.

But that's a pretty unsatisfactory, crude estimate of what's happening, and another argument for establishing a baseline of what species exist and where is so that we can have pretty precise measures of the rates of extinction, which habitats are being impacted most, and which taxa are suffering most.

"That afternoon, as we strolled around the garden, we came to a pretty unsatisfactory political conclusion: that Gordon wouldn't leave; that there was no alternative leader in prospect; and that there was an inevitability that we must just soldier on," Darling writes.

"That was a pretty unsatisfactory race today," he said.

At all events, he is a pretty distant and unsatisfactory dad figure with whom Max has no obvious connection.

Of course she might have fantasised the identification at a later date, when Austen's fame was growing, or simply been mistaken about it, but that would mean that the Austens' gift in 1817 was a portrait of a subject entirely unknown to the Harding-Newmans, a pretty odd and unsatisfactory wedding-present.

But his years after baseball pretty much had to be unsatisfactory anyway.

The cause and effect of this unsatisfactory sequence of events are pretty clear.

Pretty Sweet, Uh? Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa is right now trying to change this unsatisfactory situation.