But when they need to score to tie the shootout, with a miss meaning defeat, the success rate drops to 60 percent.
But while all lenses were focused on Carey Mulligan and Colin Firth trying to look gracious in defeat, the success of two of their compatriots went almost unnoticed.
The Yankees players lamented the departure of Tim Raines last spring, feeling that his sense of humor, his easygoing nature and his high-pitched laugh would be missed because he managed to keep others from taking defeat and success too seriously.
So long as ISIS is able to waltz its forces back and from Raqqa, Syria to Mosul, Iraq, it casts a much wider spell on Sunnis recruits than one battlefield defeat or success.
"In this town, your character is measured by how you handle defeat, not success," Art Linson told me the other day, sitting at lunch, fiddling with the menu, cracking jokes about Bulgaria, basically doing anything to take his mind off the fact that his new movie, "Lords of Dogtown," has, despite a raft of favorable reviews, been taking an ignominious dive.
It has been reported that previous experience in pigs of agonistic interaction in terms of defeat or success affects the cortisol response at re-grouping after three weeks of isolation [ 36, 37].
The concert itself was an exercise in how art can be defeated by success.
Elaborately organized conspiracies for the theft of automobiles and the spiriting them away into some other state and their sale or other disposition far away from the owner and his neighborhood have roused Congress to devise some method for defeating the success of these widely spread schemes of larceny.
Admitting that you don't know something or asking for help is not defeat, it's success.
He was not surprised to see Found following her Irish defeat with Arc success "because, for me, it's a better distance for her".
