Sentence examples for thing achieved from inspiring English sources

The only thing achieved by bringing it up is to add neon lights to the "keep out" sign.

Anyone who cooks knows that it is in following recipes that one first learns the anticlimax of the actual, the perpetual disappointment of the thing achieved.

Perhaps we should say that the enduring self is not, after all, a fixed and determined thing, achieved once and for all.

More recently, Adam Gopnik wrote a long essay about cookbooks in the New Yorker in which he claimed, among other things, that one of the functions of recipes is to accustom us to "the anticlimax of the actual, the perpetual disappointment of the thing achieved".

"I cannot say some … great thing achieved".

But the only thing achieved by the move to a 4-4-2 was surrendering Tottenham's one consistent strength -- the middle of the pitch -- to the hosts.

These, of course, were no sure thing; achieving them depended entirely on management making them happen.

Larson is on his way to doing much the same thing, achieving a market value of $5.2 billion for Network Associates.

"Branding is about convincing someone that paying for this thing achieves some sort of psychological goal," Paul muses.

"Rarely are great things achieved by excluding people from the conversation," he said.

Libin sees Evernote, Slack and "a few other things" achieving this, and soon.