Synonym: fulfil, fulfill, satisfy. Similar words: come up to, face up to, give up, drive up, measure up to, up to, save up, add up to. Meaning: v. fulfil the requirements or expectations of.
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31. I hoped it would live up to its promise.
32. I still don't live up to my standards.
33. To live up to his low opinion of her.
34. In this quarter, there's still a code that you are expected to live up to.
35. Even so-called tax havens may fail to live up to their privileged reputation.
36. The first period seemed to suggest that this game would not live up to the anticipation.
37. As a bowler at Middlesex, Tuffers has a great tradition to live up to.
38. And they are justly criticized for failure to live up to the higher standards of behavior expected of role models.
39. And when we fail to live up to our own high expectations,[sentencedict.com/live up to.html] the more we feel we deserve punishment and blame.
40. Courier beat Stefan Edberg in the final, which failed by a large margin to live up to it's billing.
41. She identified the problem not as trying too hard to live up to a domestic ideal but as not trying hard enough.
42. Concerned that his overweight body can not live up to feminine ideals, Dave's depression nearly ends his marriage.
43. Both require frequent use of the gearbox if they are to live up to expectations.
44. In the last few games the emphasis has been trying to live up to expectations.
45. About 80 daredevils, most in their 70s and 80s, plan to live up to their reputation for unparalleled courage.
46. Mary was a one-book wonder who failed to live up to her stellar parentage and early promise.
47. It is the danger that we shall be forced to live up to the promise of democracy.
48. The balanced budget amendment forces Washington to live up to its responsibilities and address budget issues honestly.
49. How could I live up to them when I got home?
50. Yesterday Woods did not live up to the $ 2.25 million price tag needed to lure him to the Middle East.
51. The action doesn't quite live up to the presentation: it's simple overhead-view stuff with no frills, but fun none the less.
52. For no more than church religion did public religion live up to what its creeds professed.
53. Religions frequently fail to live up to their high moral standards.
54. Insiders admit that by both external and internal measures, it has failed badly during the 1980s to live up to its promise.
55. Conscience is a function of the ego ideal, and is critical of failure to live up to the ego ideal.
56. He was raving at Maurin, at all the people who had failed to live up to his expectations of them.
57. In the courtroom he did not live up to his reputation as a man always raring for a fight.
58. Our country has more than enough pubs whose ruined interiors fail to live up to the promise of attractive historic frontages.
59. But naturally not even legitimate authorities always succeed, nor do they always try to live up to the ideal.
60. But the report fails to live up to expectations in looking at how new legislation will be enforced.
More similar words: come up to, face up to, give up, drive up, measure up to, up to, save up, add up to, up to date, lead up to, stand up to, live, liver, live out, live on, deliver, live with, delivery, keep to, symptom, oblivious, interrupt, corruption, the cost of living, use up, tie up, come up, makeup, make up, pile up.