Sentence examples for pretty unsuccessful from inspiring English sources

Being out of what is a pretty unsuccessful European Union – particularly in the economic sense – gives us opportunities as well as obviously great political difficulties".

"Fortunately we've been pretty unsuccessful," says Mr Jorgenson, a productivity expert at Harvard University, noting the small number of temporary mortgage modifications that have become permanent.Weak banks are not the only reason for a credit squeeze.

The WRI says Brazil's total forest cover shrank by 0.5% a year in 1990-95, the same as that of South America as a whole.Climate change is the biggest of these cases of environmental hijacking, although so far the pressure groups have been pretty unsuccessful in forcing governments to take drastic action.

Tesla says its former employee stole company secrets and poached employees – though it was pretty unsuccessful at the last bit, as only two employees ended up going over to the new co., which works on autonomous driving software systems.

So far he's been pretty unsuccessful in this goal but he does team up with Koos on the occasional, those alliterative rats.

But much less handsomely, Labour lost 18 seats out of the total of 800 that pretty unsuccessful non-hopey-changey leader Ed Miliband added to the tally in 2011.

It centres on Emma Woodhouse, a wealthy, pretty, self-satisfied young woman who indulges herself with meddlesome and unsuccessful attempts at matchmaking among her friends and neighbours.

Damon's attempts at essaying leading characters in romantic dramas such as 2000's All the Pretty Horses and The Legend of Bagger Vance were commercially and critically unsuccessful.

The shrimp bruschetta, which looked pretty but was oddly placed in a pool of tomato salsa, which soaked the bread, was unsuccessful.

"If you are unsuccessful in the semi-finals you get the shot at the bronze so the importance of the next game is pretty high".

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