And Bolt was not well known beyond running circles until his Olympic success.
For 40 years the Colombian government has battled leftist guerrillas and drug traffickers, and since the 1990s right-wing paramilitaries, with little success until very recently.
Many trade insiders now reckon there is no hope of success until after America's 2002 mid-term elections, particularly since the Doha agenda offers nothing on labour issues, another key priority for many Democrats.
It was an uncharacteristically slow start to year from Red Bull, with Vettel winning the year's fourth grand prix in Bahrain but then not picking up a second success until September's race in Singapore.
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Nobody will do that until the likelihood of success is reasonably assured, a lot of the risk has been taken out of the project, and the play has been demonstrated to have value.
But wasn't the lesson of that failure that success was impossible until Americans believed the border was secure?
Scientists have tried for decades to devise a sensor that can match a dog's sensitivity, with little success--until now.
Until now, the biggest success story among targeted therapies has been Gleevec from Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ).
One goal is to continue the customer relationship after the car sale -- something that up until now has had little success -- but the technology will also give the car manufacturers access to previously unavailable information.
This meant his family had to look for him with no success for days until they had to go through the gruesome process of looking at hundreds of photographs of dead people at the Baghdad morgue until they were finally able to identify him.
Suede continued to enjoy success without Butler up until the late 1990s, with hits including She's in Fashion and Electricity.
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This lasted until 23:10, without success, when the player was pronounced dead.
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Yorkshire had to wait until after lunch for their next success when de Bruyn, on 45, was taken by Adam Lyth at short leg to become leg-spinner Adil Rashid's first victim.
"There hasn't been sustained success by a British boyband until this year, " said Mr Williams.
Whether Marvel Studios could sustain momentum after Iron Man, its first amazing success, was debatable until it did, again and again and again.
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Until recently the law was rated a huge success for diversity.
The government had little success slowing the rise in prices until late February when it laid out its harshest set of actions, doubling the stamp duty on most transactions to as high as 8.5%, among other measures.
Pierrot's success in Fresno attracted copycats--until the big hospitals started fighting back.
Thant realized that Yangon's heritage was in danger but had little success raising the issue with local officials until late 2011, when he met with several government ministers.
But until we see comparable rates and outcomes of "success" throughout society by race and ethnicity, we will know that significant work remains to create the sort of egalitarian society that we all should want.
Netflix's early success in Internet video enthralled Wall Street until its CEO, Reed Hastings, irked subscribers 18 months ago by announcing the company was ending its practice of allowing them to get DVD rental and streaming services in a single package.
The tourists had to wait until the final ball before lunch before achieving their first success of the day.
The Dominican Republic used, until recently, to be one of the Caribbean's success stories.
When programmers and sales managers get a whiff of success, it is cloned in every conceivable way until the audience, once grateful for innovation, tunes out.
But until--and if--that caliber of reality success happens again for CBS, Carat's Senior Vice President and Director of Programming Shari Anne Brill says the network should focus on its other offerings: drama and comedy.
Which once again begs the question: Is this now a new strategy that builds on success or is it just kicking the can down the road until the next "turning point" in the war?
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With Plaid optimistic of success, Mr Wigley has even pledged to go on the wagon until polling day on May 6.
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