Sentence examples for somewhat wanting from inspiring English sources

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And if enthusiasm in 2012 turns out to be somewhat wanting, there's always the next election.

Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's leadership of the Pentagon has been weighed by a jury of his peers and found somewhat wanting.

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"I can't run away from my name and association with my brother, but I have the feeling that people somewhat want to see who the brother of Obama is".

One proponent of such strategies, the Business-Industry Political Action Committee, has found in a new poll that three in five employees "strongly want" or "somewhat want" political information from their employer -- but officials say that only about 40 companies in the Fortune 500 provide any sort of substantial education about candidates.

Both dimensions are somewhat found wanting in the British debate, on the right and the left.

"When a team has your number somewhat, you want to play them good," said goalie Martin Brodeur, who stopped 18 shots.

She spoke, somewhat vaguely, about wanting to fight for access to public education.

Last month, Son stood before 2,000 SoftBank shareholders, still reeling from Arora's departure, and admitted that he had been "somewhat greedy" in wanting to stay on for at least another five to 10 years.

She grew up in a small town in Illinois and suffered somewhat at school for wanting to learn, or as it was seen, "being pretentious".

Working with Mälkki, Edelstein somewhat refashioned Sibelius' score, wanting to give new context to the composer's curious dramatic choices so that they would fit with his own concept of the play, which was necessarily trimmed to fit into a concert format.

I found this somewhat tiresome—I just wanted pretty underwear, not to crash a nightmarish bachelorette party, and besides, if I wanted sex toys I'd go to a sex-toy store but I could live with it.

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