From the founding through the beginning of the twentieth century, government kept Americans free to create, innovate, and compete, to keep the results if they succeeded, and to try again if they failed.
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If the gift succeeded - if the queen liked it and wore it - it had fulfilled its function of winning the queen's favour and confirming the giver's devotion and loyalty.
And all they asked was that, if they succeeded, they would own what they created.
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"My father told me if I succeeded, he'd walk around the world on his hands, " Oshima recounts.
While such tactics could clearly fail, perhaps the greater concern is what might happen if they succeeded in ways nobody had envisioned.
Justice Tugendhat said he thought Terry's real concern was the effect on his sponsorship contracts, in which case, payment of damages would be an adequate remedy if he succeeded at trial.
Second, even if we succeeded on establishing their liability, PwC India had viable arguments that they were at most reckless in conducting their audits, and did not act with actual knowledge of the fraud.
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But this is only half the picture: if it succeeded in ending deflation, the Bank of Japan would help to reduce banks' losses on their loan portfolios, which are bigger than those on their bond portfolios.
Opponents of the Palestinian bid argue that it is a unilateral action that will undermine attempts to negotiate a two state solution, and that it could be little more than an empty gesture even if it succeeded, since it will hardly charge the lives of Palestinians.
Celtel found that it succeeded if it adapted products and services to local tastes, needs and small budgets.
The board warned that the deal would be scuppered if Mr Rothschild succeeded in retaking control of the company.
If his outreach succeeded, Israel would be left safer, and so might make concessions in the Middle East peace process.
If the saboteurs succeeded, the scope and scale of damages that resulted would depend entirely on the effectiveness of the emergency response.
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If they had succeeded, we can be sure that Raghavan would have reported it and the Post would probably have printed it.
If this offer succeeded, Mr Fiorani's plan would be in tatters.
Mr Jobs will have succeeded if the sort of people who pay more for an Audi than for a Ford also prefer an Apple to a Compaq.
While pupils will know their result on Saturday it will be May when they learn if they have succeeded in in gaining a place at their preferred school.
If it had succeeded, it would have been the first major retail chain to have customers shop within the social network, a place where the average American spends about seven hours a month.
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He would not have succeeded if the bank had required its employees to ask for identification when they were asked their passwords, or if they had required their employees to hang up and phone back.
"I do not want to say that Pope Benedict XVI did not understand this, but for him this generation is remote and it is probably better if he is succeeded by someone from the younger generation, " he said.
If his speech succeeded in blunting US pressure on Israel - even temporarily - on the Palestinian front, and in light of the results of the Iranian presidential race, Netanyahu has gained the opportunity to act on the Iranian front.
If Spain has succeeded, as it claims, in persuading Germany and the other eurozone governments to hand over the 100bn euros with no strings attached that relate to Spain's spending and taxing - to its budget - then Ireland would have a powerful case for demanding a renegotiation of its bailout package.
If Dr Ubani had succeeded in his application to the court in Kempton, Bavaria, the Gray brothers would have faced a European-wide injunction.
The only sensible result would be if the South Africans succeeded in making Mr Kabila and the rebel leaders negotiate peace with one another.
Obama has made it clear that he thinks this is unfair, but what would really be unfair is if the White House succeeded in reducing rates through governmental force.
But the council says that if Mr Fidler had succeeded in getting the council's enforcement decision overturned it would have created "an unacceptable precedent for development in the green belt".
He asserts that even if a missile interceptor succeeded in effecting a boost-phase "kill" on an incoming missile (that is during the early stage of its trajectory when it is moving relatively slowly, easily identified and vulnerable to destruction), its warhead might continue on and land in friendly territory with devastating effect.
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