Which brings us to one of the main problems with second acts: New selves don't just spring fully fledged from the wreckage of old lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why is Eliot Spitzer on TV? Because disgrace doesn't stick like it used to.] Reference

But there's no money to counter a full-fledged infestation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear, Fur And Four Feet] Reference

How can you pull off a full-fledged job hunt from your desk?.    From Wordnik.com.  [WORKPLACE: JOB HUNT AT WORK] Reference

Unlike empathy, full-fledged conscience does not seem innate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning Right From Wrong] Reference

The phone call quickly turned into a full-fledged partnership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coming Soon: Www.Newsweek.Moon?] Reference

The solution is simple: a full-fledged Marshall Plan for Russia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

It was one of the opening skirmishes in a full-fledged revolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Light Revolution] Reference

And such a democracy should be based on a full-fledged legal system.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘We Should Join Hands’] Reference

At that point the rush to go pro will become a full-fledged stampede.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAIL CALL AND CORRECTION: ENMESHED IN 'SPIDER-MAN] Reference

I don't know if I will try to become a full-fledged bartender, or quit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan's Young Slackers] Reference

But whatever their social handicaps, they insist on being accepted as full-fledged Jews.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swing Low, Sweet Chariot] Reference

He suggests that the idea of a full-fledged department can be re-examined in a few years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martyrs For Multiculturalism] Reference

Disdains Wall Street and has yet to stage a full-fledged national initial public offering.    From Wordnik.com.  [If Candidates Were Stocks] Reference

A full-fledged invasion would be immensely costly and likely have even worse consequences.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Problem Is Pakistan] Reference

What Matisse requires more than another field theory about his work is a full-fledged biography.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Most Beautiful Show In The World] Reference

Your bold revelations must alert those in charge to initiate a full-fledged international inquiry.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Letters: Killing Taliban Pows] Reference

Such a move would raise the specter of a full-fledged Balkan war, involving Albania, Greece and Turkey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oops. Maybe We Shouldn't Have.] Reference

They Drive a Hard Bargain Acting at 6 months, producing at 6 years and full-fledged media moguls by 15.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsmakers; Crazy Like A Foxx] Reference

The biggest surprise on "" Brand New '' is the emergence of Roper as a full-fledged member of the group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rapping On Their Own] Reference

Mythologized as Japan's "frontier," Hokkaido was nonetheless less than a full-fledged member of the empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebel Rich] Reference

Even then, coexistence with Sinn Fein, never mind full-fledged cooperation, would be trying for the unionists.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Future Without Losers] Reference

At present, instead, he has manufactured a poker-faced insouciance into a reputation as a full-fledged Enigma.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Sweet Pete' Swings For An Open Repeat] Reference

A few weeks ago one Vatican office upgraded four areas in Russia from mission status to full-fledged dioceses.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Weary Shepherd] Reference

His rebels have been fighting a full-fledged war with Colombo for 17 years; about 60,000 people have been killed.    From Wordnik.com.  ['You Will Have To Die'] Reference

The company plans to convert its research and development facility in Ventura into a full-fledged biodiesel plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business: Go Green, Get Green] Reference

Full-fledged talks on withdrawal from most of Gaza and the West Bank town of Jericho were expected to resume this week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting To Be The Victim] Reference

The aim is to entice Pyongyang into negotiations to replace the 1953 armistice agreement with a full-fledged peace treaty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defection In Beijing] Reference

Adrian M. Gonzalez Guerra -- Monterrey, MexicoWhat next, NEWSWEEK, a cover showing siblings sparring in full-fledged rivalry?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

  The prospect, for a half-fledged senator of 36, was incredible: his party was fairly begging him to run for Vice President.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teddy Kennedy’s Decision] Reference

On Monday, Huckabee conducted nearly a full-fledged press conference with his head wrapped in a hot towel, as he awaited a shave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laid Back] Reference

A few got their start in countries like Taiwan and South Korea, which are no longer fully fledged members of the "developing" class.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sexiest Companies You've Never Heard Of] Reference

Come fall, the company plans to expand it to full-fledged service in the Kanto region with such additional attractions as image clipping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asia's Roaming Bulls] Reference

Kurdistan isn't a full-fledged democracy -- the KDP and rivals from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan control the government and the Army.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Welcome To Kurdistan'] Reference

In fact, a suspicious result can be everything from a shadow on the film to completely benign breast disease to a full-fledged malignancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call-Back] Reference

But if Washington doesn't proceed cautiously, a full-fledged Indonesian economic collapse could threaten to destabilize the entire region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indonesia: Why The World Should Worry] Reference

After a Chicago company did a staged reading, New York's small Second Stage Theatre suggested she make the novel into a full-fledged play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edna And Bonna And Lynda] Reference