"be crowned with success" is correct and usable in written English. You might use it when speaking or writing about someone achieving a major goal. For example: "She worked hard on her project all semester and was finally crowned with success when she won the competition.".
Howells' fiction, however, reveals little instinctive belief that merit will in fact be crowned with success and that the real world must conform itself to the ideal.
Las Casas's work finally seemed to be crowned with success when King Charles signed the so-called New Laws (Leyes Nuevas).
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said: "We hope the efforts that are being made will be crowned with success at the meeting".
Considering the large potential market for drugs in some areas, like the treatment of CNS disorders [1], accompanied by a vast increase in R&D funding over the last years [2], one could argue that the struggle for new drugs should be crowned with success.
Their efforts were crowned with success.
Their efforts were crowned with success: Naoroji became the first Indian to sit in the House of Commons.
Italy's prime minister, Enrico Letta, told La Stampa's editor, Mario Calabresi, "Our hope was never extinguished and all the efforts put in place for a positive outcome were crowned with success".
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