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  • My guess is they were either swapping football stickers or comparing notes on how to look after successful women. The Sun
  • Traditional methods for liquid or semiliquid fecal incontinence management, such as the use of absorbent briefs/pads, skin cleansers, and moisturizers, are only moderately successful in alleviating the consequences of fecal incontinence. New Data Shows Budget Impact of Fecal Management System in Hospital ICU
  • So far, only a couple of the trees (literally two) have been found to be successful in fending off beetle attacks, using chemical and physical responses similar to those in lower-elevation tree species, such as lodgepole pine and Douglas fir. Louisa Willcox: Whitebark Pine: Functionally Gone in Much of the Greater Yellowstone
  • Chartists at once organized resistance to what they called the usurpation and, after a long civil war, were successful. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • It would seem that efforts to train stalkers to high standards have been successful, and I would agree with that conclusion.
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  • Miles, the more successful, exaggerated the decorative qualities of his father's style to the point of mannerism.
  • Commissioned in 1963 to make a film about America's first successful quintuplet birth, Leacock and Joyce Chopra captured the quints' mother's anxiety at her sudden celebrity and the surrounding South Dakota community's eagerness to cash in on it. The Man Who Held Up a Mirror to America
  • The climbers face certain death if the rescue today is unsuccessful.
  • The final proposals were a rather unsuccessful compromise between the need for profitability and the demands of local conservationists.
  • They overcome fear and become strong and successful. The Guide to Greatness in Sales
  • Nick managed to move his battered body quickly enough to launch his own counter-blast, successfully stalemating the battleship's beam.
  • A successful fighting man must have a strong sense of pride and self-respect.
  • The council's own footballing heroes successfully defended their title in the European Municipal Cup in St Malo, France.
  • Previous vintages of Katnook's Cabernet Sauvignon were equally successful.
  • Typically directors will request indemnities from the company when they become involved in a claim or if they are successful in defending a claim made against them.
  • In America, where there has been a shift away from big studios towards independent film-makers, Swinton has forged a successful career in both areas.
  • The launch vehicle employed comprised three stages, the first stage being the highly successful Redstone rocket.
  • Those of you too lazy to hit the last link won't understand this, but the key to a successful performance of this story is to remain deadpan. Literary Death Match: Wednesday Night in Washington Square Park
  • After consultation with a resident, a beech tree was successfully pruned to reduce overhang.
  • This is where another highly successful businesswoman with a love of property refurbishment is selling her home. Times, Sunday Times
  • She began writing successful romantic fiction and historical novels.
  • In fact, that it isn't, really, a sci-fi film makes it so successful.
  • The mark of every successful entrepreneur is his or her willingness to borrow from family and friends.
  • Howard's belated triumphalism in the South Pacific may be no more successful than Mussolini's equally tardy attempts at empire building in North Africa.
  • He later became successful in politics.
  • Disguised first as a horse dealer and later as a holy man, he successfully blarneyed his way through regions, which were not a part of British-held India at the time.
  • Even with a load of electronic gadgetry, you still need some musical ability to write a successful song.
  • I say this because in the mid distance is the Swinden Limestone Quarry, and they are removing one hill, and making another with the quarry tailings, and successfully grassing over the spoil and planting trees.
  • In other cases, generating a demand requires the emplacement of an infrastructure of maintenance for the successful adoption of innovations.
  • The key to the successful management of patients with severely elevated BP is to differentiate hypertensive crises from hypertensive urgencies.
  • England's wars, waged successfully by humble bowmen as well as knights and noblemen, created among all ranks a self-confidence that warmed English hearts.
  • Williamson is well known to have been a highly successful spy, and high up in the apartheid regime's disinformation network.
  • Though successful, the area was reduced to a muddy bog.
  • If a product cannot be cleaned by any method, the manufacturer is required to attach a label saying so—for example, “Do not wash, do not dry-clean” or “Cannot be successfully cleaned.” HOME COMFORTS
  • So when Synova says "And if you think that the Bush administration has been successful *ever* at putting a story out that they want put out then..." the only rational response is a resounding horselaugh. "I hope this gets you fired, you're obviously stupid.... There's plenty of proof 9/11 was an inside job. Try reading, if you know how.....lololol."
  • Danny Gill said the cake sale on Sunday was a most successful event and he thanked all who were associated with the event.
  • The musical instruments symbolize an underlying harmony behind nature's powers, to which the successful alchemist must himself be attuned.
  • The Dutch successfully transplanted trees to the East Indies.
  • Dalgliesh thought that the design would have been more successful if the fagade had been balanced by extended bays, but either inspiration or money had ran out and the house looked curiously unfinished. She Closed Her Eyes
  • Hence CI5's involvement, although it had been an assignment with an only partially successful outcome.
  • But army hard-liners, led by Mr. Ioannidis, staged a successful countercoup on Nov. 25, 1973, and ruled Greece with increasing harshness and incompetence for the next eight months. Dimitrios Ioannidis, 87, dies; former Greece security chief led countercoup
  • She has had successful exhibitions of her ceramics and sculptures and has a sense of having her identity back. Times, Sunday Times
  • She was a total mystery to him in spite of their long and successful association.
  • Results PCR, restriction endonuclease method and direct sequence analysis demonstrated that plasmids of YMDD, YVDD and YIDD were constructed successfully.
  • Unsuccessful at screen writing, he got a spot on a CNN film show.
  • The country was on the verge of becoming prosperous and successful.
  • This is just a short note to wish you all a very successful, productive and prosperous New Year.
  • Many of the distance teaching strategies were used during our class very successfully.
  • A successful job search needs to be as well organised as any other executive task.
  • It proved the operational concept of a winged, reusable spaceship by successfully completing the Orbital Flight Test Program.
  • In addition, depressed individuals are less successful in their efforts to stop smoking and more prone to depression following smoking cessation.
  • The project successfully integrates ecological ambitions with the design of architectural and sculptural elements.
  • You can't possibly be successful if you haven't got convictions -- what I call bald-headed convictions. If Winter Comes
  • As a producer and processor of organic products, Dirk is a successful and independent supplier of the current market demand.
  • Obama would surely be careful in innovating his plan since the opposition will be attacking him even if he is successful. Times/CBS Poll: Iraq Still a Dividing Line - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • Two tugs from Clyde coastguards tried unsuccessfully to pull the vessel clear and it was freed the next day on the early morning tide.
  • What are the keywords on the mood boards at the car designers these days: sexy, aggressive, practical, safe, sporty, flexible, successful, family, active, fun?
  • He successfully reframed the issue as being not about petty internal rules, but instead the little man standing up against the big political machine.
  • He is the embodiment of the young successful businessman.
  • Successful people are not necessarily more intelligent than the average people, but they are more courageous, more determined and more persistent. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • His previous fusions of jazz, pop and African melodies have proved highly successful.
  • If ‘we’ has not taken over from ‘me’, the attitudes needed for successful community are not in place.
  • The Hill's liberals will count it a successful session if they can scratch up a billion or so out of the defense budget, add in the money freed up if, as expected, Carter's counter-inflationary "real-wage insurance" plan is defeated, and then spread the dividends among the hardest-hit programs. The Politics of Austerity
  • To successfully graze and grow yearlings, a combination of very high quality winter and summer grasses must be available.
  • There is a very successful physician in London whose teaching is that gymnastic exercise does more harm than good.
  • He is the lawyer who plunged the Scottish Executive into a compensation crisis by successfully challenging slopping out in prisons.
  • Any attempt to incorporate it after the contract is made will be unsuccessful.
  • Ultimately, under the Court's decision, a successful plaintiff will have to prove she was singled out for disadvantageous treatment in the workplace.
  • Americans tried to take part of British Canada in December 1775, when forces led by Benedict Arnold and Richard Montgomery unsuccessfully attacked Quebec.
  • The bollards at each end have been successful in keeping out vehicles, without impeding the passage of bicycles, prams etc.
  • Hackworth did this through reimposition of a strict but fair discipline, introduction of and training in proven and successful fieldcraft, and leadership from the front.
  • I am a highly educated, successful career woman who finally realized that we women are getting ripped off by the current culture and the educational establishment who is brainwashing us into a life of hectic, unfulfilling work in stuffy cubicles working long, stressful hours to earn enough so that we can "relax" on a beach somewhere. Get in on Life...
  • The fact of the mater is that there are far more successful startups in the bay area than anywhere else. Tech Startups Don’t Need the Valley Unless They Need VC
  • I timed it successfully, and had no doubt of having added four to my score, when, to my astonishment, I saw a fieldsman running from the direction of the hedge. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 14th, 1920
  • To be successful, you need to keep an eye on what you want to achieve and not on what you already have. Just like while aiming, you focus on the target and not the tip of the arrow . Dr Roopleen 
  • A small random gene which survived all, to become successful and clever and procreate a chromosome of me in her turn, that I might live on? SEA MUSIC
  • If that sounds harsh or flippant, just take a look at the discographies of rock's most enduringly successful acts. Times, Sunday Times
  • And the assumption the defenses were based on was only invalidated when the Fleet Air Arm successfully attacked Taranto. Making Light: In the navy, between the wars
  • United fans were overjoyed today that the most successful manager in the club's history was about to sign on for more glory.
  • his unsuccessful mollification of the mob
  • The pilot programme of vaccination proved successful.
  • They're extremely successful and there's no cause to outsource work.
  • Any successful manager is worth his weight in gold.
  • Attempts to locate the lorry at Harwich International Port were unsuccessful.
  • The designer whose work can bear such attention successfully is a rare talent indeed.
  • However, in a pilot study, the instrument successfully measured reactive hyperemia following pressure in healthy volunteers.
  • Trust is a vital ingredient in a successful marriage.
  • A successful example of this approach is the use of two dopaminergic medications, bromocriptine and L-DOPA, in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
  • Quiet folks ... the woman who should have been the 44th President of the United States is handling our starry-eyed mainstream media with the ease that comes with being a part of the most successful Democratic presidential legacy since FDR (see Bill Clinton). Clinton: 'I broke my elbow, not my larynx'
  • Therefore, the most successful programs were those that were attuned to the future and flexible enough to respond quickly.
  • The lamp, standing alone in the midst of confusion, suffered a partial eclipse; and my favourite Dublin meerschaum successfully resisted the dilapidating effect of a fall of several feet. Canada for Gentlemen
  • It is part of a pilot study believed to be the first of its kind in the country which, if successful, could take off nationwide.
  • It's one of the great metrics of a successful business.
  • Recently, while vacationing on Harbour Island in the Bahamas, I visited my friend "chic Al," who was very definitely and very successfully working her pareo. Covering a Multitude of Beach Sins
  • The day also saw Tamana felicitating those who had successfully won medals at the recently held Delhi Special Olympics.
  • If the Yes campaign is successful, it is more likely to be a case of companies straddling both sides. Times, Sunday Times
  • Without a developed national debt market, the central bank cannot utilize open market operation to adjust monetary supply efficiently and the fiscal policy also cannot be implemented successfully .
  • A country discovering a successfull assassination, supporting rebels or desecration of holy site now gets a casus belli against the offender.
  • Having successfully relocated the bridge, there's no job too big for the nation's favourite brickies.
  • If this is the case but there is no aspect, yet the planet to which the Moon applies is angular, the pregnancy will be successful.
  • As a producer and processor of organic products, Dirk is a successful and independent supplier of the current market demand.
  • Athlete behavior is meant to be exemplary and virtuous and sustain the rags to riches myths of successful sports stars from humble origins.
  • A successful attack would incapacitate military training camps.
  • I cannot imagine a successful staging of a piece with so much instrumental music and that has very little stageable drama to it.
  • The plan to phase down environmental pollution is progressing successfully.
  • Students who had been successful during the term eagerly flipped through their portfolios, pointing out all of their good grades. Sara Vogel: Beyond Damage Control: Equipping Parents With Real Tools to Support Their Children in Mexico
  • When on horseback his legs hardly reached the lower body-line of his mount, and only his extreme agility enabled him to get on successfully. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life
  • She can make a successful return. Times, Sunday Times
  • It has changed the law to shut loopholes and successfully challenged many schemes in court. Times, Sunday Times
  • The mucous film covering his eyes was an infection that was treated successfully with antibiotic drops.
  • They've successfully expanded that to include the 'mass-affluent' and include a younger set of customers. AmEx Looks Beyond Credit Cards
  • Were you successful in persuading him to change his mind?
  • One example is a non-alcoholic drink, called Malta, which is now being successfully marketed in Asia and Africa.
  • To be a successful hacker you must understand what computer systems are used by the target company and how they are used. Corporate Cloak and Dagger
  • Dr Pease said during the treatment they never gave up hope that it might prove successful.
  • He successfully stood off her heavy blows struck by his match.
  • If the tests are successful it sees the eventual commercial use of petcoke as a way of cutting the plant's costs to help it compete with cheaper gas-fired power stations.
  • Ten adult elephants - each with a number painted on it - were successfully moved and released in this fashion.
  • One soldier managed to successfully execute the somersault maneuver that most people are familiar with from the childhoods.
  • Prior to my appointment, political opponents of education reform had successfully made charter school growth as difficult as possible. Times, Sunday Times
  • Go3 has a portfolio of successful English games such as the hit title Mafia corruption, as well as numerous applications on the iPhone and over the Facebook network. Qwaider Planet
  • Successful first breeding and calving of the heifer is only part of a successful replacement strategy.
  • He was a mediocre speaker, uncomfortable in circumstances of political manoeuvre, often either too hesitant or too precipitate in action, and wedded to a proud independence that interfered with the building of successful alliances.
  • But why do successful people allow voyeurs to poke around their personal lives in the certain knowledge that they will end up looking chumps?
  • In other wet news, the Cassini-Huygens probe successfully buzzed Saturns moon Enceladus yesterday at a height of 50 kilometers (30 miles) and a speed of 14.4 kilometers per second (32,000 miles per hour). Water, water…. somewhere? « Imaginary Potential
  • They each will hold enough other shares to make them billionaires, at least on paper, if the IPO is successful.
  • I think that we all deserve pats on the back for retaining the spelling knight after losing the silent velar fricative that once started the word, and for successfully mastering learning the various sound sequences that that master of disguise ough can hide (bough, trough, plough, through, tough, etc.). Preposterous Apostrophes VII: Why Won’t Willn’t Work? « Motivated Grammar
  • Whitney pioneered the idea of interchangeability as a fundamental principle of production, and he successfully applied the principle to a product that must be made with the greatest precision. Mises Institute Daily Articles (Full-text version)
  • The book opens with Blanche White in jail for unsuccessfully kiting checks to buy groceries with.
  • I draw strength from the millions of women who have faced this challenge successfully.
  • They ran their own successful public relations business in London.
  • Behind every successful man there's a lot u unsuccessful years.
  • We are very happy to extend to you our utmost congratulations on your finishing your college course so successfully.May you enter a more successful life and the future years bring you continued happiness.
  • Good Earth is so successful it's bulging inside and out, with delivery trucks jockeying for space in the alley and customers from afar lined up to park.
  • [146] Johnson's observations on Addison's writings may be well applied to those of Cicero, who would have been eminently successful in short miscellaneous essays, like those of the Spectator, had the manners of the age allowed it. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
  • The latter was successful and recovered damages of some £19,000 on the counterclaim.
  • Students are invited to come and hear what it takes to become a successful young entrepreneur.
  • They knew that several clerks lived in the shop and they felt that they would have to kill them in order to assure a successful robbery.
  • Counselors in this area report that the most successful groups are the ones in which the men come to challenge one another about their abusiveness.
  • The successful applicant will be working closely with our international staff.
  • He was fighting the battle of the bulge from his early twenties and not always successfully. Times, Sunday Times
  • The prisoner was successfully rehabilitated
  • They cry whenever their children excel themselves, and are overjoyed when their friends are successful.
  • In order to be successful on the field, everyone needs to generate positive energy and emotion.
  • I'm hopeful and confident that the graduation ceremony will really be a completely new start.I believe that the knowledge you have acquired will enable you to be successful in whatever field you may enter.
  • If such warning signs are detected early enough, doctors can sometimes successfully treat people suffering from primary immunodeficiencies.
  • I'm hopeful and confident that the graduation ceremony will really be a completely new tart.I believe that the knowledge you have acquired will enable you to be successful in whatever field you may enter.
  • The task group also want a breakdown and analysis of how many ethnic minority workers have been successful after applying for jobs at the council.
  • He's the creator of a successful cartoon series.
  • _The comedy of Wilmot successful: The wounded stranger seen at a distance: Oratory abandoned with regret: The dangers that attend being honest: A new invitation from Hector: A journey deferred by an arrest, and another accidental sight of the stranger_ The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
  • I was startled when Cassie described almost smashing a vase over Brian's head because he was irritating her, but she successfully checked her violent reaction.
  • Tropical marine invertebrates, unlike marine fish which are notoriously difficult to successfully breed in captivity, are far more accommodating.
  • It indemnifies successful litigants for the cost of litigation.
  • Successfully managed to crash the car by scraping the side along some concrete bollards.
  • The second unsuccessful attempt to be professed had a transforming effect on him. Times, Sunday Times
  • As a producer and processor of organic products, Dirk is a successful and independent supplier of the current market demand.
  • Toasting their successful ascent to the summit, she lifts her flask in the air, and father waves his walking stick.
  • I am pleased to tell you that your application for the post of Assistant Editor has been successful.
  • She bitterly resented the fact that her husband had been so successful.
  • What the book does convey very successfully is the horror of war.
  • Although he subsequently became a successful businessman, his criminal past caught up with him.
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  • Mademoiselle herself looked worthy of her squire, for her dark, animated face stood the test of the unrelieved whiteness so successfully, that she was all ablush with delight at the discovery that she was not an old woman after all, but on occasion could still look as girlish as she felt. Pixie O'Shaughnessy
  • During the course of this extraordinarily long movie, my children grew up, left home and had children of their own, Sam, in particular, excelling himself with a successful legal practice aimed at weeding out fraudulent accident claims.
  • _Coeteris paribus_ -- all the other usual conditions being observed, such as silence, the fixed gaze, monotony of attention -- let the galvanic disk be put aside, and in its place let a sixpence or a fourpenny-piece be employed, or indeed any similar small object on which the eyes of the patient must remain fixed for the usual space of time, and we will promise that the experiments thus made shall be equally successful with those in which the so-called galvanic disk is employed. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852
  • She is now acclaimed as a successful musician who can sing in eight languages.
  • He is a man who has a very successful record in real estate, but he is also a man who has experienced the depths of despair.
  • In today's Boston Globe, there's a discussion with noted sports psychologist Harvey Dorfman, on why he thinks Matt Clement will successfully return to the mound after being beaned in the head by a line drive.
  • Already highly successful in popular music, dance and commercial television, blacks have found the movies a tougher nut to crack.
  • A repetitive set-top game called Search for the Spear of Destiny requires a beginner's level of dexterity, and delivers trivial lost-civilization factoids as reward cookies for successful play.
  • Saturday nights, walked through the meadows and round by the mill and back home past the creek on Sunday afternoons, taken his seat in the brake for the annual outing, shuffled his way through the polka at the tradesmen's ball, and generally seized all legitimate opportunities for sporting with Amaryllis in the shade, has a hundred advantages which your successful careerer lacks. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
  • Baptiste looks on patiently from the stage and smiles, like a successful surgeon, or rabbi, at peace with his gifts. Striking a Pose
  • Successful placement of a feeding tube was defined as placement past the pyloric sphincter and in the duodenum.
  • Most contestants abstain after the expert has been successfully called upon unless they are absolutely certain they have the correct answer. Times, Sunday Times
  • The open portion of her wound had granulated successfully.
  • In 1990, Poland's Lucy Krajewska made the first successful crossing by a legless person.
  • Samuel Huntington used to emphasize that, if EU could integrate successfully in political sphere, the world would be led by EU in the 21st century.
  • Against this, however, stood the successful isolation of the political resistance organizations and the overwhelmingly closed nature of the different social milieux inherited from the Weimar period.
  • You look at any successful side long term. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her parents had been separated since she was two, but becoming refugees together was a last - unsuccessful - stab at reuniting.
  • Big business joined together to form a climate change coalition to lobby successfully against the protocol.
  • (Exercises for anteversion and retroversion supplied by a successful teacher of such work.) Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
  • But after being successfully kept under wraps for months, their love match exploded on to the front pages this week. The Sun
  • Joe Grue successfully ran the jack of hearts, crossed to the ace of hearts, and led the king of spades in the hope of felling a doubleton jack in the South hand. Netherlands win at home
  • Given patience, successful breeding of this species can be achieved.
  • He delivered countless lectures all over the world, crossing all the continents and successfully engaging some of the biggest names in Christian evangelists in public debates.
  • Least successful are the Bacon triptychs, which leave unanswered what is made of the displacement of a gay artist's male subjects by female protagonists.
  • Most fresh herbs will freeze successfully.
  • My uncle Paul was a master brassfounder; but when he retired he set up a most successful ballroom dancing academy. Its A Grand Old Name
  • When rekindling a fire from coals, placing a split log on the bed of coals produces a more successful transition from smoldering into flame than using an unsplit log (one having no obvious edges).
  • The first question that occurs to the enlightened enquirer, when he learns that the functions of the brain have been positively determined by experiment, is whether the cranioscopy of Gall and Spurzheim was successful in locating the cerebral functions, and how nearly their inferences from development correspond with the revelations of experiment. Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9
  • In an earlier, pilot study, researchers used oral viscous budesonide to successfully treat two patients who had been unable to utilize fluticasone propionate.
  • The sexy star, who has forged a successful solo career outside the band, said their last album was probably their last.
  • I regret to inform you that you have been unsuccessful in your application.
  • I think drafting international players has proved to be successful for several NBA teams.
  • British Kaffraria, Griqualand East and Griqualand West were examples of this policy, which is still represented, not unsuccessfully, by the great protected area of Basutoland. The Expansion of Europe
  • I'm hopeful and confident that the graduation ceremony will really be a completely new tart.I believe that the knowledge you have acquired will enable you to be successful in whatever field you may enter.
  • The sweet Marjoram has also been successfully employed externally for healing scirrhous tumours of the breast. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • He does not think so when he is hungry, but he thinks so again as soon as he is fed; and on the hypothesis of a successful ant-heap, he would never go hungry. Lay Morals
  • The forward is recovering from Sunday's successful operation to mend a double fracture of his left leg. Times, Sunday Times

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