Verb (used with object) : The police crackdown on speeders achieved its purpose. ,to achieve victory. From Dictionary.com.
He was considered the president of the as-yet unachieved. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Shame & the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World] Reference
Thus Humboldt's original purpose has been almost wholly unachieved. From Wordnik.com. [The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze] Reference
I have acheived a few small things but had no major unachieved goals. From Wordnik.com. [The morning of the day] Reference
This sounds less like a myth than an unachieved or unachievable ideal. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
America can be greater, it holds unachieved promise, its leaders have not led it well. From Wordnik.com. [Try a Little Tenderness] Reference
Our country can be greater, it holds unachieved promise, our leaders have not led us well. From Wordnik.com. [Try a Little Tenderness] Reference
View the unachieved goal as an experiment and examine the results without taking them personally. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
Probably it was the burden of unfinished novels and a lurking desire to go on with Mercadet, which was lying still in its unachieved state. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
These are the problems with which, as something apart from Metaphysics or Logic, the possible but yet unachieved pedagogical science has to deal. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy] Reference
"We have an unachieved dream," President Lee Myung-bak said. From Wordnik.com. [Newsvine - Get Smarter Here] Reference
He did return and then vanished, leaving those purposes unachieved. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Osiris] Reference
This extensive plan remained unachieved, and only the first two parts. From Wordnik.com. [Venus in Furs] Reference
Simpsons of life stand for romance and mystery and longings unachieved?. From Wordnik.com. [Balloons] Reference
And all this I suffered until the burden of unachieved desire grew intolerable. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of a Young Man] Reference
There will always be enough of the unachieved at table to furnish balanced rations. From Wordnik.com. [The Joyful Heart] Reference
The Triple Crown is now unachieved for a record 31st year, but 2009's Kentucky Derby. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"We have an unachieved dream," he said in a speech at the national cemetery in Seoul. From Wordnik.com. [CBS 2 - KCAL 9 - Los Angeles - Southern California - LA Breaking News, Weather, Traffic, Sports] Reference
The latter comes into our present consideration only as that most exasperating thing, an ideal unachieved. From Wordnik.com. [The Victorian Age in Literature] Reference
Why did the Greeks not go on, as modern scientists have gone on, with vistas of the unachieved still ahead of them?. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform] Reference
A serpent comes along and snatches the plant from him, and he is forced to return to Erech with his purpose unachieved. From Wordnik.com. [An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic] Reference
America; he delights, sooner than all the world, in the astonishing, unbalanced, unachieved genius of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. From Wordnik.com. [Figures of Several Centuries] Reference
But it does not seem that the melancholy sense of some great purpose unachieved or some great destiny awaiting him ever quite left him. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Lincoln] Reference
If Bohemia Bagel could make a good bagel, a feat unachieved in many American restaurants, I imagined they would serve a passable burger. From Wordnik.com. [Serious Eats] Reference
Then her dreaming self awoke to the memory of something unachieved, an obligation rashly incurred, a promise that could never be fulfilled. From Wordnik.com. [The Divine Fire] Reference
'good-morning,' but closed it again, the salutation unachieved; for. From Wordnik.com. [Wuthering Heights] Reference
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