Sentence examples for somewhat planned from inspiring English sources

The 1981-82 recession had the virtue of being somewhat planned, the result of Fed Chairman Paul Volcker's attempt to kill inflation.

A policy of "peaceful interference," as the British prime minister Lord Canning described it, culminated in the somewhat planned destruction of the Turco-Egyptian fleet by a combined British, French, and Russian fleet at the Battle of Navarino in October 1827, the last great naval battle of the age of sail.

Back upstairs, I asked two questions I had been somewhat nervously planning to ask.

This is supposed to be part of the G.O.P. budget-balancing initiative, and on that count it is somewhat like planning to lose 50 pounds by reducing your intake of kale.

Just one week after Amazon announced its high-tech, albeit somewhat vague, plans for drone delivery, the online retail giant is beginning to face warlike competition.

Its first line of assault had been to suggest that the Conservatives would slash spending by £35 billion.This sounds a big number but Labour's charge backfired when it emerged that this "cut" represented the gap between the two parties' plans for 2011-12, resulting from somewhat slower growth planned by the Tories than by Labour.

So they went ahead, somewhat reluctantly, and planned to do a "First Look".

He completed his training somewhat later than planned, in March 1937, owing to bad weather which curtailed flying.

As I said, economic theory is somewhat ambiguous on when planned obsolescence is actually in a company's best interest.

Meg Whitman, the chief executive, said eBay's partnership with TOM Online would start within a few months, somewhat later than first planned.

The company points out that the prices are somewhat lower than originally planned, that it is expanding its day care operation, that its facilities will be state of the art and that it will be giving scholarships to parents who can't afford to keep their children in Google day care.