Sentence examples for had barely succeeded from inspiring English sources

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

Although many computer programs have been developed for accurate detecting, most of the programs have barely succeeded in improving either quantity or quality of the methylation results.

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.

Nothing anywhere matched the quality of the special sections beginning with A Nation Challenged, inspired and superintended by Raines and his associate Gerald M. Boyd, when they had barely time to log on after succeeding Lelyveld on Sept. 5, 2001.

He championed young artists, and he succeeded in attracting people who had barely set foot in a museum before.

John Haley, who was appointed to succeed Mr. Wilson as transportation commissioner, had barely approved the document when there was a major change.

But England had barely begun.

The odds had barely budged.

Stone had barely any line.

Laroche had barely anything left.

The border had barely budged.