It is not properly applicable to a player who stocks the cards or loads the dice beforehand... What he aimed at, and what he often attained, was as great a certainty in the operations of the Wall Street game as is attainable in the most legitimate lines of business.
Within 48 hours of the trouble, this so-called commander had attained a number of goals.
To quote just one: "So here is a specific and valuable advance in knowledge that could only have been attained by experimentation on animals that closely resemble us; experiments which are, as far as we can tell, almost painless".
It has also been criticised by employers for being too crude, as it makes it hard to differentiate between students, say, who attained 60% and others who achieved 69.9%.
Despite the occasional attempt, he never again attained the savage, cathartic energy of the Rite nor the spectacular succès de scandale it created.
Formerly at Arsenal, Queens Park Rangers, HFC Haarlem, Ajax, Sparta Rotterdam and RKC Waalwijk he holds an international masters in sports management, attained at the Johan Cruyff Institute.
He had attained his dream of having become a professional pilot after being an amateur.
Scientists think the frog attained so many chromosomes through hybridising with similar species over millions of years.
Since 1992, almost 86,000 nationalists attained voting age.
Raised in a working-class household in Luxembourg's industrial south, Juncker joined the centre-right Christian Social party (CSV) the year he finished school, in 1974, and attained his first ministerial post in 1982.
The Observer revealed last week that the increase in the nursing workforce was attained by bringing in more than a quarter of new staff from abroad.
