Sentence examples for achieved brief from inspiring English sources

Sydney Chaplin, who has died aged 82, achieved brief Broadway fame, an on-and-off film career, and a vivid private life, without being too much awed or overshadowed by being the son of the great Charlie Chaplin.

The actor Van Williams, who has died aged 82, achieved brief fame as the masked comic-book hero the Green Hornet in the 1960s US television series of the same name.

Founded around the fourth century B.C., the town achieved brief renown as the site where Giuseppe Garibaldi first planted the country's tricolored flag in 1860 during his quest for a unified Italy.

He achieved brief fame in 1981 as the manager of the Rochester Red Wings when they lost to the Pawtucket Red Sox in a 33-inning odyssey, the longest game in baseball history.

Two American women, Bette Ford and Patricia McCormick, achieved brief fame in Mexico, but the former left the ring for an acting career and the latter retired after an almost fatal goring.

The CIA's station chief in Milan back in 2003, he had achieved brief notoriety for overseeing a la dolce vita version of extraordinary rendition as part of Washington's Global War on Terror.

Chad Campbell, one of the many Texans who achieve brief prominence in the sport, had an astonishingly good first round, but I don't have any doubt who will be there in the stretch.

Memory reconsolidation is the process by which brief reactivation of a memory – usually achieved by brief presentations of a reminder CS or context that are insufficient to engage extinction learning – results in the memory becoming destabilized in the brain, a state from which it must be re-stabilized through de novo protein synthesis in order to persist (Nader et al., 2000b) (Fig. 4).

Don Juan in Soho, though politely received, only achieved a brief run at the Donmar.

Like Marxism, the neo-liberal market ideology that achieved a brief hegemony during the last decades of the century had its roots in Enlightenment traditions.

But depending on widely different assumptions introduced to the models, the big animals could not run at all, or, at an unlikely best, might have achieved very brief bursts of speeds comparable to an Olympic sprinter, 23 m.p.h.