Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't.    From LearnThat.org.  [Harry Truman]

Exxon Mobil Corp. also looked at the project, but decided the terms weren't attractive, according to a person familiar with the situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crunch Time for BP's Arctic Deal] Reference

This might all be funny if it weren't so dangerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pride Of Place] Reference

"" We weren't even talking about economics, '' he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here's Why You Need To Care About The Euro] Reference

Initially, China and Indonesia weren't cold-war rivals.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Worried Silence] Reference

But Forum CEOs weren't entirely at odds with the survey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can The Net Make Capitalists Nicer?] Reference

They weren't sure what they were doing or where they were going.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sexism In The Cites] Reference

But apparently those assurances weren't enough for the chancellor.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I Sometimes Feel Lost And Lonely'] Reference

Arrogance would be bad enough if it weren't tinged with hypocrisy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mad As Hell] Reference

Your friends weren't living in wedded bliss; they were "Smug Marrieds.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return Of Bridget] Reference

Martha Stewart fans weren't sure our July 1 cover was such a good thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

Fraga was the fourth, and Brazilians weren't exactly holding their breaths.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nerd Who Saved Brazil] Reference

And all of that wouldn't be so bad if there weren't so much to be angry about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mighty Fall] Reference

So far, however, Iraqi troops in the field weren't putting up much of a fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allied Blitzkrieg] Reference

So the new editors weren't taking their status seriously or working very hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Benazir and Me] Reference

If they weren't terrorists themselves, they were probably harboring terrorists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning to Live With Radical Islam] Reference

And it peters out at the end, as if the curators weren't sure how to wrap it up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Designed To Chill] Reference

But at any rate, the Scots say, they weren't acting out of cynical self-interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mad As Hell] Reference

They weren't old enough to fully grasp the big picture the way adolescents can, she says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Generation 9/11] Reference

You weren't single (pathetic and desperate), you were a "Singleton" ( "v.g." -- very good).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return Of Bridget] Reference

So we weren't surprised when Weymouth announced that she had booked a ticket to Sana, Yemen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bylines] Reference

"We had nothing to do with anyone in the area, we weren't going into anyone's homes," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brothers in Arms] Reference

If Liberace weren't already dead, Rockwell would probably be the guy he'd want for his mausoleum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knocking Their Eyeballs Out] Reference

I can't remember the circumstances, or why my parents weren't with us, but I remember the flight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear Of Flying In The Age Of Sars] Reference

During desert storm we weren't trying to find people in caves and spread out across the landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  ['This Ship Is A National Asset'] Reference

American said it's glad to be flying again, but executives weren't available to comment on specifics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turbulence Still Ahead] Reference

But when the Slepians returned from synagogue that Friday night, they weren't thinking of the warning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abortion Wars Come Home] Reference

Even in adulthood, men strive to "become" men, or to become "real men," as if genetics weren't enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Power, Sex And A Big Tv] Reference

Investors who owned both bonds and stocks weren't hit nearly as badly as those who plunged into stocks alone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Long On The Big Three] Reference

When it's all over, and you wish it weren't, a waiter arrives to scarer crystallized rose petals on a marble slab.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haute Cuisine Heats Up] Reference

The Beatles weren't sure the world should hear all this, but they were smart to let us in on a few of their secrets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beatles March On] Reference

But just because the terrorists weren't caught at the border doesn't mean they couldn't have been stopped at the airport.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: The Cia's Troubles] Reference

"" There weren't enough to fill a third of a sandwich bag, '' recalls paleontologist Keith Rigby, who was heading the dig.    From Wordnik.com.  [Treasure Of The Badlands] Reference

But they weren't tax cheats; they were just big spenders, buying the good life on credit cards and not with taxable income.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Reality Check From The Irs] Reference

From the collective perspective of Bush's foreign-policy team, Iraq fell into the category of big problems that weren't urgent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fishing for a Way to Change the World] Reference

It's easy, and politically expedient, to pretend that everything would be just fine if affirmative action weren't screwing things up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Myth Of Meritocracy] Reference

When classes start in September, a third of the top officers at Princeton will be women -- who weren't even allowed to enroll until 1969.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Group] Reference

The trouble is that uncertainty is the enemy of confidence; and if people weren't so confident, they might notice that uncertainty abounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is This Too Good To Last?] Reference