Sentence examples for somewhat more lasting from inspiring English sources

Mr. Rumsfeld refused to be drawn into a discussion of specific plans to strike again at Iraqi targets, but he did say, "One tends to want to do things that will have somewhat more lasting effects".

This is somewhat more than I paid the last time I ate at a bistro in Paris, but the food is rather more dressed up, too.

It's nice to know he's feeling somewhat more optimistic this year, because the last time he tried this sort of thing, his heart came out looking like this.

Their first four-hour meeting at the White House seemed somewhat more tense and formal than their last three sessions this year.

One boring logistical note before this thing gets started: I would expect the results to proceed somewhat more like a "normal" election than last time.

The Times notes that international officials are "distancing themselves" somewhat more from this election than the last one, But that may be hard to do if fraud is rampant once again, placing the more than 130,000 coalition forces here in the awkward position of acting as guarantors of the survival and stability of a government of increasingly dubious legitimacy.

Today's statement varied from the last one only in its somewhat more upbeat view of consumer demand, which it characterized in June as weak.

Ms Yellen's testimony was somewhat more hostile than at any time over the last 12 months, mainly because Richard Shelby, a Republican from Alabama, is now chairing the Senate Banking and Finance Committee.

In our last campaign we had a somewhat more buxom model, and now we're having Beyoncé, who's a bit curvier as well".

The panic on Wall Street has eased in the last few weeks, and banks have become somewhat more willing to make loans.

Still somewhat groggy from the hedonistic excesses of Mardi Gras and St Patrick's Day (which lasts a week here), the city culturally elevates itself this week with a somewhat more cerebral celebration.