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live up to

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  1. satisfy, fulfill, fulfil, live up toverb

    meet the requirements or expectations of

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  1. live up to

    To live up to something means to fulfill or meet certain expectations, standards, or responsibilities. It often refers to meeting requirements or matching an ideal image or promise.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of live up to in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of live up to in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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  1. Ophelie Jacobson:

    Floridians want to know they are funding institutions that live up to the standard of raising the next generation of open-minded leaders and thinkers, and right now, our state colleges and universities are not living up to that standard, my peers have lost the ability to critically think and analyze different viewpoints because other viewpoints aren't there for them to analyze! But thanks to Governor DeSantis, intellectual diversity is making a comeback on campus. This annual assessment will be a true eye-opener for taxpayers, parents, and students.

  2. State John Kerry:

    If the Assad regime does not live up to its responsibilities and if the Iranians and the Russians do not hold Assad to the promises that they have made ... then the international community obviously is not going to sit there like fools and watch this. There will be an increase of activity to put greater pressure on them, there is a possibility there will be additional ground troops.

  3. Rebecca Lobo:

    She's proven she has what it takes to be one of the great players at UConn, to be one of the great players in women's college basketball, now, we've got a couple of years to see it unfold. We have many more big moments in this young woman's career, which I expect she will live up to.

  4. Margrethe Vestager:

    It doesn't necessarily say that now we have all cases lined up where interim measures will be used but it means that the tool is on the table, and if we find cases that live up to the two things that have to be fulfilled at the same time, yes, we will indeed use interim measures more often.

  5. Janis Meredith:

    I think a lot of times parents tend to gauge their own self-esteem on how well their kids do, like, 'I'm so and so's parent. Did you see how well my kid did?' maybe they're trying to make up for something that they didn't do when they were younger or something that they did do, maybe they want their kid to live up to them.


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