But after the Paris summit, even his detractors acknowledge that it succeeded this time.
While the law failed to lower healthcare costs, it succeeded in getting everyone affordable health insurance.
But it succeeded in wrongfooting the opposition parties, who did not expect such generosity.
The Bush Administration had one major success: it succeeded in staving off another terrorist attack in America.
It was seen as a huge morale boost in Britain and it succeeded in disrupting German industrial output.
Celtel found that it succeeded if it adapted products and services to local tastes, needs and small budgets.
In reality, Hyundai had to make good on the pledge very few times, but it succeeded hugely as a marketing gambit.
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Although it succeeded in avoiding catastrophe, it failed to produce a vibrant recovery, precisely as some critics to the left had predicted.
Excerpt (McCullough): The lesson to be learned from the Panama Canal is that it succeeded by taking its greatest problem and making the problem an advantage.
It succeeded because Asian governments made sure their farmers, big and small, were able and willing to avail themselves of fertiliser, irrigation and connections to markets.
The White House made the assumption that because it succeeded in getting new revenue during the fiscal cliff negotiations, it would be able to do so again.
It seemed to me the event was not designed to be a product launch so much as a declaration of position and, in that respect, it succeeded.
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If this was meant to embarrass Mr Netanyahu, it succeeded.
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It succeeded in removing Bangladesh from the international news agenda.
It was founded on a commitment to bringing to life a stylized vision of a world that felt truly fresh to gamers, and it succeeded wildly in doing that.
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Ironically, it succeeded in keeping its options open by threatening to pick a single final design, which led contractors to cut prices to a point where continued purchase of both versions became feasible.
However, it succeeded last month in persuading Judge Gladys Kessler to hear an appeal on whether the payment of vast damages from the companies' profits would be the appropriate remedy in this case.
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.
We're hoping the rest of the week brings some crazy Android news, but we're not holding our breath -- Microsoft wanted to make a statement here in Barcelona, and after day one, we'd have to say it succeeded.
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.
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For the first seven years Telmex held a monopoly on phone service, and it succeeded in imposing some of the highest prices anywhere in the world. (All bidders were offered a similar competition-free period.) The market opened to rivals in 1997, and Telmex tangled with competitors repeatedly over the high access fees it charged them.
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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