Sentence examples for quite apply from inspiring English sources

But I am a foreigner and therefore the rules, happily, do not quite apply.

In fact his career had even more twists and paradoxes than that, and none of the labels quite apply.

Today, both notions of Harlem — as a distinctly black piece of the New York puzzle or as a place afflicted with urban ills — no longer quite apply.

In this ballet the motto "from each according to his ability" doesn't quite apply: everyone in the cast seems to show off greater abilities than usual.

This reduced the chance of a global conflict starting by mistake.The parallel doesn't quite apply to religious leaders because they don't normally have armies or weapons at their disposal.

"And it seems that in some places, like Romania and Bulgaria, the laws applying to free movement within the European Union don't quite apply to them in the same way that they apply to other people".

The first trilogy (Star Wars, 1977; The Empire Strikes Back, 1980; Return of the Jedi, 1983) constitutes the turning point in modern cinema – though the turn was so large that the word "cinema" no longer quite applies.

Beyond the Numbers seal of approval, the descriptions on offer barely went beyond the words 'sensory' and 'immersive' which could quite easily apply to an Argos head massager.

Since the separated phospholipids are rather waxy or gummy solids, the term degumming was quite naturally applied to the separation.

Like 'freedom', 'fun' and 'excellent', it's one of those words that sounds indisputably good but can be quite malleable; applied to a range of ends.

However, experts who have studied the DoJ policy sent to US attorneys say the measure remains quite narrow, applying only to a smaller category of offenders with no history of violence or links to drug gangs.