Sentence examples for was mainly good from inspiring English sources

Neither diplomatic finesse nor timing nor persistence clinched the deal: it was mainly good luck, though it would take Jefferson's political skill to get the agreement -- which he suspected was unconstitutional -- through Congress.

Alan Nogee posted a comment, republished here, expanding on his view that there was mainly good news in the report on California's choices in meeting its requirement to deeply cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050: I do think the point that California is actually a worst-case, not a best-case, is quite important….

(He was great in Melancholia, but his role was mainly "Good Looking Husband").

Race relations are mainly good, but there are simmering resentments.

"So it's mainly good but sometimes it's not".

That's the other brilliant thing about this programme, it is mainly good news.

The trends are mainly good in the word's most struggling places — reprising findings from a year ago.

But as a measure of healthy supply a wide provision of goods at prices shoppers can afford it is mainly good news.

Its basic tenet is that location-aware devices are really good for us, whereas the truth is that they are mainly good for the huge corporations that will exploit the location data that our spyPhones collect.

Its enormous plaza was never inherently attractive or inviting to most people, and the towers, to many visitors, were mainly good for providing a high perch to look at other places.

Referring to the critics, he said in an interview with The New York Times, "I was afraid they would destroy me with, 'What a shame it was directed by Claude Miller.' " The reviews were mainly good.