Sentence examples similar to barely succeeding from inspiring English sources

They barely succeeded.

So I try to make everyone happy and barely succeed most of the time.

Manager Charlie Manuel then bypassed Lidge and used Ryan Madson to close Game 5, which Madson barely succeeded in doing.

Rafael Benítez had barely succeeded Steve McClaren as manager at St James' Park last spring before he dropped the midfielder from the team.

That it eventually — if barely — succeeds is due more to the resilience of its actors than to the discipline of its makers.

Even then, as Henderson often pointed out, they barely succeeded – and he was sceptical about the potential for ridding the world of other diseases.

Greece's prime minister, George Papandreou, has threatened to call an early election to round up support for his deficit-cutting plan, and in Portugal the government has just barely succeeded in passing its own plan to bring the deficit down to 7 percent next year.

Most of those high-yield REITs only barely succeed at covering dividend payments.