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Sentence Examples The original was cool, but this one tries with unsuccessful results to live up to the legacy of its predecessor. However, in light of past practices, it is doubtful whether they will live up to those pledges. The criteria of acceptability for Holy Orders must surely include a sincere attempt to live up to these teachings. Added to this are accusations that he failed to live up to his promise that the elections would be democratic and fair. But he has struggled to live up to that quicksilver performance and has made only limited appearances in the first team squad. Though it shouldn't be expected to live up to some of the fantastic claims made on its behalf, the ragdoll is an extremely docile cat. Public Enemy's Chuck D is constantly calling on rappers to live up to their potential rather than down to expectations. The trick we have to do is live up to the image of the white knight in shining armor. It s no longer really possible to live up to that part of the custom but the spirit remains the same. My parents always make me live up to my word so I asked them to live up to theirs. Prior to the start of the Tour, the press and public alike pinpoint potential rivals, but they never live up to the billing. We repose our confidence in them because we believe that they will live up to their own promises. Still some have left us cold and unfulfilled as one party of the match didn't quite live up to their end of the deal. I'll choose a company with ideals they're trying to live up to over a business that's aiming for the status quo any day of the week. Just as they prepare to rocket ahead in the rankings, the coach is shocked to discover his boys have failed to live up to their contracts. Maybe it's just an overproduced theatrical event that didn't live up to all the hype. The GGA failed to live up to its lofty and noble ideals due largely to the self-serving nature of some of its less progressive members. Amelio succeeds in showing the abysmal sadness that results when the longed-for miracle of education doesn't quite live up to its hype. If you choose to grant yourself the anonymity of a moniker whilst lurking on guestbooks, at least pick something you can live up to. The new site certainly seems determined to live up to its English name by grabbing all the market share it can muster. Show More Sentences The production promises to live up to the group's current high standard of theatre, kicking off another packed year of top-quality shows. He's got to be involved, he's got to have his ear to the ground, and he's got to live up to a lot. With Brian Laudrup and Larsson mentioned in dispatches as players he could emulate he has quite enough to live up to. There was some mild bellyaching that the bang bang chicken and crisp Chinese pickled veg baguette did not live up to its promise. Even something as monumental as the birth of a new millennium couldn't in the end live up to all of the hype. Those moving away were sometimes dismissed as a shiftless lot who could not live up to the small-town virtues of constancy and forbearance. The sumashi was a clear-broth seafood soup, and it was satisfying as well, though it didn't quite live up to the miso. But this showing does not live up to the promise of their earlier set pieces. Many of these schools do not live up to the popular stereotype of being well endowed and sought by the monied middle class. The three countries are signatories to an international treaty to protect refugees and have a duty to live up to it, she said. We ask of government to live up to its moral and legal obligation to efficiently and effectively deliver basic social services. And while hitting the top 10 has created a blizzard of credibility-tinged hype around the group, they just can't live up to their radical image. Little surprise, then, that yesterday's scoreless draw at Craven Cottage singularly failed to live up to its billing. Duncan, a precocious, affectionate child, had failed to live up to his academic potential, and had become withdrawn and uncommunicative. Such expectation can create the unenviable task for the band to live up to positive critical reviews. If he doesn't live up to the conditions of the bond, then the jail sentence will be imposed. For the first time, my boot-cut jeans actually had a chance to live up to their name. Never ceasing to live up to this standard, the university continues to promote interactive and up-to-the-minute technological information. It's a bummer when talented people endeavour to do something artistically challenging, only to have the end result not live up to the promise. The question is whether the author can live up to the vivid characters and style of the first book. Show More Sentences If you don't live up to what you say you're going to do, like being real, they throw you under the bus. If all the locking devices you carry live up to this standard, then you're stocking the right products. Men should not be expected to live up to stereotypical conceptions of heterosexuality and masculinity. They invite you and challenge you to live up to your own thoughts and insights. But when the masterpiece arrives, 37 years overdue, can it live up to its own myth? The new big noise displayed a chronic lack of professionalism and failed hopelessly to live up to his billing. This either means analysts were too optimistic in their expectations, or companies failed to live up to such demanding goals. The progress of the boys is monitored for about a year, and if they fail to live up to expectations, they are dropped for the following year. Although I had a go at impersonating him, I couldn't really live up to that! The food was standard hotel fare, failing miserably to live up to the mouth-watering eloquence of the descriptions on the menu. Even so, there's always the danger that new providers might not be able to live up to their own hype. It's been my experience that life is so constructed that the event cannot and will not live up to preconceived idea I have about it. This local derby, which was played in perfect conditions before a sizeable attendance, did not live up to its prematch expectations. Determined to live up to her new role as genteel landowner, the pop icon is opposing plans to allow ramblers to access her estate. Stretching does not live up to its reputation as an injury preventer, a study has found. Everyone who has seen the original BBC production expects this film to live up to the hype. We must try to live up to our stated principles of human rights, the rule of law and democratic government. The endangered Quitobaquito pupfish is a small fish, typically about 1.2 inches long, that can live up to 3 years. As more and more of the world's tour operators are beginning to acknowledge, ecotourism has to live up to its green claims. It takes a while for the film, elegiacally shot in the depressed streets of Dublin and stuffed with local slang, to live up to this pitch. Show More Sentences I am occasionally disappointed by the failure of some ACLU Chapters to live up to their libertarian pedigree. They constantly disappoint the young by failing to live up to their expectations of them. The only sense in which Europe has fallen behind is its failure to live up to unrealistic Europhile expectations. But his desire to prove a point backfired in a grim and unambitious contest which spectacularly failed to live up to its pre-fight hype as a clash between two big punchers. I did more research and I read that mourning doves can live up to seventeen years in captivity, but I'm sure they have to be active to be healthy. But MLB has a duty at least to try to live up to its contract with the players and its covenant with the public. He has gotten out of position, a rarity in past years, in an apparent effort to cover for other players or perhaps live up to his contract extension. Now it is said that the inscrutable coach will have to live up to the demands placed on him by the billion people living within a fanatical football nation. They have thought constantly about each other, but will the real person live up to the idealized image that was burnished into their minds for ten years? When Thorpe arrived for the relay final, therefore, wet from having just won a world record-breaking 400 metres, it was hard to imagine that he could live up to the billing. And according to the organisers of the Holi festival, the celebration did live up to its promise of being a true wholesome entertainment for children, youngsters and adults. He continues to strike an informal note on his tour of Belize and live up to his reputation as a jokester. Josef Suk can always be counted upon to produce good, well crafted and melodious music and these three compositions certainly live up to that description. Our pericope is an admonition to live up to the calling of discipleship by avoiding a long list of negative behaviors and aspiring to unity in the church. The singer's anthemic effort failed to live up to Ireland's high-scoring record in the contest, and that made the event something of a damp squib. He had won the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1953 and had much to live up to, and, as he vouchsafed to friends, this was also to be his last literary endeavour. Year after year they have to endure the torment of being required to live up to the role that Ernest Hemingway gave them. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. Before adopting the world's norms, we should ask whether those norms protect these rights and liberties, and live up to the principles that have served us so well for so long. France, alas, also fails to live up to its reputation for libertinage. Show More Sentences They both appear to live up to the Libran image of easy harmony. Now picture the reaction of those Pharisees who regarded themselves as holy, righteous, and pure but who looked down on any who didn't live up to their standards of holiness. Gandhi could not live up to his principles partly because he was a practical politician, and the job of politics is to dilute ideological and moral purism. All in all, the story did not live up to all the wonderful reviews written about it and presented itself as a let-down when the tale was carelessly and coarsely ended. Every object he touched had to live up to his perfectionist standard. There is no question Martin has failed to live up to his advance billing. It is the first in a string of references that he makes to male icons, from top athletes to racing drivers, suggesting his ego has a lot to live up to. Trying to live up to the impossible hype, the desperate clamour. It didn't exactly live up to the hype in terms of classic showdowns, but it generated more than its share of heat, and a great ball game nonetheless. As the great musical icon of the Sixties counterculture, Dylan has always been expected to live up to higher moral standards than the average rocker. Satisfied, but not content, Gold strives to live up to her surname, as well as stamp it on the long list of American greats. His first film bombed because it failed to live up to its name. He had to live up to the legacy of late night's golden boy, Jimmy Fallon, who hosted the time slot before he did. The tree can live up to 70 years and enjoys sunlight or partial shade. If only they had been able to live up to the glory of presidential progress! The new big noise, Pete, turned out to be an indulged squirt who displayed a chronic lack of professionalism and failed hopelessly to live up to his billing. Hosting visits, as they have this year, by sides as prominent as Australia and England is a propaganda triumph, even if the matches fail to live up to the billing of contests. Given to all the promises of improved handling, bigger crashes and a better structure, it certainly feels like it's had enough of a polish to live up to its claims. Some of those who were showing great promise not so long ago are now struggling to live up to the billing, notably John O'Shea and the anonymous Liam Miller. The microphone is, of course, not destined to live up to its promise. Show More Sentences This is an expectation that few people can be expected to live up to. Fans plotted the course of the run in with optimism, but the Saints needed that sort of form in every game and couldn't live up to the task. Springer Spaniels can live up to their name, especially at only 12 weeks old. It's slickly and classily produced and the on-stage performances live up to the sound track they are showcasing, which is not to be snied at. Hicks doesn't pull punches, and he isn't afraid to pour on the literary hot sauce when a restaurant doesn't live up to its reputation. And the state has failed to live up to its promise to correct the inequity, he said. And it took me years to learn enough to live up to what they said for those first notices. When David returned, he was determined to live up to the memory of his illustrious father. His ambition was to live up to Rilke's dictum that 'the poet must know everything' and to write a poetry that contained all knowledge. Brittle stars generally sexually mature in two to three years, become full grown in three to four years, and live up to 5 years. In this year, Charlemagne was crowned emperor and adapted his existing royal administration to live up to the expectations of his new title. Lobsters live up to an estimated 45 to 50 years in the wild, although determining age is difficult. The gestation period of the elephants ranges from 16 to 18 months, and the oldest of the elephants live up to 200 years. Finals rarely live up to expectations, and Inter have a reputation for pragmatic play, just as Chelsea did under Jose You-know-who. The initialising demonstrates that both parties live up to their roles as reliable partners in the gas business. Touted as the Liar's Poker of Capitol Hill, Jackley's account does live up to the publisher's flackery. Travis is a bunny who probably has the longest, floppiest ears on the planet and Poser the pony really does live up to his name. Pacific geoducks and Atlantic quahogs are estimated to live up to 146 and 221 years, respectively. The Scot is now unbeaten in 21 fights, including 12 knockouts, and outclassed Csala who failed to live up to his Furioso nickname. The loss of his dad made Jordan re-evaluate his life and he was inspired to live up to his father's ambition that his son become a baseballer. Show More Sentences Spanier said UPS failed to live up to promises made at the time of the acquisition of Mail Boxes Etc. Carey said the union will continue to collect reports of the company's failure to live up to the agreement it signed. Murrow made his now-famous speech challenging television news to live up to its potential. Does the raucous, n-word riddled hip-hop spectacular live up to the hype? But dad-of-three Johnathon McCormack struggled to live up to the title after loading a road roller into his Ford Transit van. Unfortunately, despite the plot trying to weave in a different direction, Megaton fails to live up to the success of its predecessor. Doctors either taking or not taking the Hippocratic Oath are assumed to live up to the oath's wisdom. Banks are run by greedy so-and-sos who live up to the rhyming slang of their job titles. Martin, ranked as the world's best Individual Time Trial rider, looks to live up to his hype as he faces the recently crowned Tour of Britain Champion. On the other hand, one common criticism made is that Esperanto has failed to live up to the hopes of its creator, who dreamed of it becoming a universal second language. Was it some sort of marketing ploy to drive the declining tourist revenues? More importantly, did it live up to the hype? I strolled around this poshtel in search of answers. He focuses on the fulfillment of duties, criticizing those that did not live up to expectations, and praising bad emperors for times when they did fulfill their duties. It grows to maturity in 3 or 4 years, and may live up to 14 years. Not to live up to these demands for minority children is linguicist. Under ideal conditions in its native range, Norway maple may live up to 250 years, but often has a much shorter life expectancy in North America, sometimes only 60 years. Does The Secret Wisdom of the Earth live up to its prepublication hype? The Sunset Strippers live up to their Hollywood throughway namesake with enormous amounts of grittiness, unsavoriness and an oddly endearing charm. Many harp seals are able to live up to 30 years in the wild. The goal is live up to one's self-view however that appears across the moral continuum from being very uncaring and unjust to very caring and very just, the researchers said. If they ever live up to their promise, nanocomposite magnets should reduce the demand for both neodymium and for another rare earth element called dysprosium. Show More Sentences An alcoholic, Burton's failure to live up to those expectations disappointed critics and colleagues and fueled his legend as a great thespian wastrel. While this plot line has potential for complex character development, the Dawg and the Diva essentially live up to their titles by doing predictably conniving things. Examples from Classical Literature This sportswoman called Charity had been trying to live up to her name, of late. But he never tried to live up to the high standard of character set by these heroes of the older days. He told the grazer what were the orders he had, and that he would have to live up to them. May we live up to that name, may we carry on the standard of Northrop School. He has been telling me how you live up to your duties as neighbor and parishioner. So when Rana steps on to the mat in Incheon, he would know that he will have to live up to a legacy. I wonder if I shall be able to live up to peddle, said Doggie. Oh, if a man only could live up to the verses he cuts out of magazines! The height of this house in Hallow means that it can truly live up to its name, Hallow Views. Mouser was just trying to live up to his name, but the overzealous cat got in over his head Thursday when he got stuck between two walls. I'm the head of the noblest branch o' the family, and I ought to live up to it. Jones will be next in action in the French Open on December 10, where she will be hoping to live up to her nickname of the Head Hunter. It was, if I may immodestly say so, the best we have put on yet and certainly give us a lot to live up to next year. Simply that the South live up to the terms of the surrender at Appomattox. William Lakin, from Cradley Heath, explains how he wons thousands of pounds in compensation after his mortgage failed to live up to expectations. The Mavericks had a reputation for liveliness to live up to. Regardless of their good intent, parties to a contract often fail to live up to their end of the bargain, resulting in a breach of contract dispute. Find more words! 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