Sentence examples for somebody strong from inspiring English sources

Lelyveld says he was looking "for somebody strong who complements you in an interesting way, not just a duplicative way".

But what if Mr. Quinn would show the gumption to discard the traditional considerations and get somebody strong to bolster an image as independent and effective?

"She always scared me," he confessed, and Helen Thurber, wife No. 2, said, "Jamie in that period needed somebody strong to steer him, and Althea was strong".

Now a writer and property investment guru, she said of what she would like to see in a dance partner: "Somebody strong, gorgeous and patient, because I can be extremely trying sometimes".

And if the Europeans are a little alarmed, it's not just because of their own military insignificance, or because they're a bunch of weak-wristed, spineless wimps who resent the sight of somebody strong, tough, and decisive.

"What they're concerned about, they're deeply concerned about, is this: somebody strong enough to take on Washington".

And I think you could do, you could get somebody stronger, somebody who could run the whole community.

"If they come up with somebody stronger, someone who can do better by the children of this district, I will look favorably upon that appointment".

But pressed, he says he thinks that "you could get somebody stronger," and adds, "I believe that you, that we need a strong, strong director of central intelligence that will assert himself and will have the power and the backing of the president to be the chief of staff, I mean, the C.E.O. of the whole intelligence community".

But I do know that it doesn't work out like somebody's strong or somebody's weak.

"First of all, we need somebody with strong musicianship," Mr. Canning said.