go far

Example Sentences

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Vehicle safety advocates argue such mandates save lives and don’t go far enough when some 40,000 people a year die on American roads.

From The Wall Street Journal

Campaigners welcomed a "positive step", but they had hoped to see a reduction to four grams and said the measures did not go far enough.

From Barron's

But, as financial and economics writer Morgan Harman notes in a succinct essay, the benefits of feeding the hungry go far beyond the obvious immediate economic ones:

From Salon

But open government experts said the law did not go far enough to restore transparency, adding that some local governments are still objecting to the release of contract information.

From Salon

"We, of course, want to go far. Now we have two more games in the league phase. We have to give it our all and hopefully win both of them."

From Barron's