Sentence examples for an initial success from inspiring English sources

After an initial success, the unions and management quickly reverted to confrontation.

Following an initial success, the school enjoyed a period of prosperity but then fell victim to the Great Depression.

May's drive to curb immigration had an initial success reducing the net migration figure from 215,000, but it now appears that progress has been reversed.

The History Channel already has "a very healthy commerce engine" on its Web site, Mr. Garner said, and if 5 percent of the people who see the new feature make a purchase, that would be considered an initial success.

This "environmentalism of the poor" showed an initial success when the project was halted in 2007.

(If that happened after an initial success, it could be a disaster, because many people would have lost their immunity).

"The history of business is a bone pile of companies that had an extraordinary initial success," Mr. Palmisano said, "but were unable to achieve a second act".

Barzilai concedes that he and the AFAR-sponsored group are as interested in setting a precedent as in scoring an impressive initial success.

"AMANDA is much like the Model T Ford, a great breakthrough, a great initial success," says astrophysicist John Bahcall of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Popularly known as Brusilov's offensive, it had such an astonishing initial success as to revive Allied dreams about the irresistible Russian "steamroller".

They headed on to Chicago, where, after a brief initial success, the troupe fell apart due to a combination of labor disputes and cutthroat competition.