There is nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune and nothing melts away sooner than a great one. From LearnThat.org.
This far, Team Obama has tried to tweak a middling message, at times a day late and a dollar short. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
Looking at the chart for most of the day, it was up just kind of middling a little bit above 100 points. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2008] Reference
"It is so wrong to suggest that this is somehow some kind of middling improvement for the American people," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Aide: Obama believes tax on costly policies 'has some merit'] Reference
Many children go from being top of the class at primary school to being simply 'middling' at secondary and sixth form. From Wordnik.com. [Osborne: Tories Will Prevent New Grammar Schools From Opening] Reference
Anti-terrorism efforts have moved from poor to middling which is progress, but there's still a lot of room for improvement. From Wordnik.com. [Are you registered to vote? Have you been disenfranchised?] Reference
We are not "middling" or "average" or "insignificant" - as I have outlined earlier, we are a considerable power and a significant country. From Wordnik.com. [Should Australia Think Big or Small in Foreign Policy?] Reference
I don't know if I'd call the Jets defense "middling". From Wordnik.com. [NY Daily News] Reference
Today Canada is kind of middling overall, said Osborne. From Wordnik.com. [CANADA FX DEBT-C$ firms slightly, looks to Tuesday CPI data | Reuters] Reference
Yet investors see nothing "middling" about TiMet's prospects. From Wordnik.com. [Fool.com Headlines] Reference
Those new trousers, of "middling" sacks, "Brand No. 1" proudly distinct upon the right leg!. From Wordnik.com. [Vesty of the Basins] Reference
"Our garden is 'middling' dry, but we can keep the wet lovers moist by watering them more generously than the rest.". From Wordnik.com. [Ethel Morton's Enterprise] Reference
I know there's something about the chap on the Clapham omnibus who's supposed to represent some kind of middling everyman. From Wordnik.com. [Dump Michele Bachmann] Reference
In an attempt to get interested in these books and sharpen my skills, which are "middling" at best, I picked up one and started browsing. From Wordnik.com. [10,000 Birds] Reference
And some of them are just kind of middling: they just don’t make that much of an impression, good or bad. From Wordnik.com. [EP Review: A Scanner Darkly] Reference
To the right he is a socialist, to the left a middling messiah. From Wordnik.com. [The New Book On Barack Obama] Reference
In objective quality surveys, VW may have ranked middling or worse. From Wordnik.com. [GM's Latest Nemesis: VW] Reference
That's a middling score for a newer comic, but impressive for a vintage copy. From Wordnik.com. [Rare Batman Comic Found In Sock Drawer] Reference
However, in most vehicle segments, Chrysler provides middling mileage, at best. From Wordnik.com. [Chrysler and Fiat form a global alliance] Reference
And again, cannot Recommend it because of its middling 55 out of 100 point score. From Wordnik.com. [Best new car values: It’s more than dollars and cents] Reference
As a youngster, I was a middling athlete — good head, good hands, very bad feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Side of Golf] Reference
But drastic cost cutting alone won't turn two middling banks into a dynamic megabank. From Wordnik.com. [So Who Needs A Megabank?] Reference
The old Thurgood Marshall was a middling justice, not as good as some, better than others. From Wordnik.com. [A Great Original's Lives At The Law] Reference
A true radical-middling candidate would put everything (even social security) on the table. From Wordnik.com. [Stalking The Radical Middle] Reference
We test TVs for their sound quality, and very few rate better than "Good," our middling score. From Wordnik.com. [When TV sound is disappointing, home-theater systems can help] Reference
Although the D90 lets you record HD video, its capabilities and performance are middling at best. From Wordnik.com. [Claim check—Nikon D90: The first SLR with hi-def video] Reference
And the sound quality for music listening is barely passable, on a par with a middling clock radio. From Wordnik.com. [Review of the Sony Dash: Great idea, flawed execution] Reference
(Their band, The Deele, had a middling hit with the paradoxically tender "" Shoot 'Em Up Movies.' '). From Wordnik.com. [Ready For His Close-Up] Reference
If you push a coin through, it picks up some middling amount of honey, gaining just a little weight. From Wordnik.com. [How Is A Quark Like A Frisbee?] Reference
Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic activity, has been middling in recent months. From Wordnik.com. [July manufacturing slows, but remains positive] Reference
New York University, once a middling regional school, has seen freshman applications increase 90 percent in five years. From Wordnik.com. [We'll Take Manhattan] Reference
For the first half of this year, the bank posted middling results in widely watched debt underwriting rankings, trailing. From Wordnik.com. [Citigroup's Risk Chief Learned the Hard Way] Reference
Plus, many of last season's reality shows are back for a second run, no matter how middling their success the first time. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribe Has Spoken] Reference
RadioShack, like most major chains, has a middling rank in our Ratings of electronics retailers (available to subscribers). From Wordnik.com. [RadioShack rebrands itself "The Shack"] Reference
The downshift in second-quarter growth shows an economic recovery that, one year in, seems to be settling into a middling pace. From Wordnik.com. [Economic growth slows to 2.4 percent pace in second quarter] Reference
In the published test, the CR-V won hands-down over a bunch of middling vehicles, such as the Jeep Compass and Chevrolet Equinox. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Picks: Small SUVs, part 2] Reference
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