Sentence examples for quite stood from inspiring English sources

Arguably, 9-11 did bring this country to its knees and some might say it's never quite stood erect again.

Yet the comparisons don't quite stand up under scrutiny.

He nevertheless recognised the danger of a populist backlash.Schumpeter does not quite stand comparison with Keynes.

Mr. Matthew A.R. Bassity, of the Bklyn Botanical Garden, said Miss Q's statment doesn't quite stand up.

Yet it could not quite stand up to the demands of the brunch hour.

If Patchett's book doesn't quite stand on its own, it is a moving companion to Grealy's.

"While last century's Free was a powerful marketing method, this century's Free is an entirely new economic model," he claims.But he never quite stands this up.

"Star Trek Into Darkness" does not quite stand by itself as a satisfying movie, but then again it doesn't need to.

Reading accounts of United States napalming in Vietnam, she was sure that the Cuban revolution was right even though she couldn't quite stand it.

But inconveniently for the government and its backers, many of the arguments used to bolster the "we only have a spending problem, not a revenue problem" morality tale don't quite stand up to scrutiny.

Pattern Recognition doesn't quite stand up as a self-contained work – its dance material feels both too thin and too burdened with ideas to sustain its 50-minute duration.