Sentence examples for halfway successful from inspiring English sources

Clearly the key to televising the Paralympics is to hold the quirky and celebrate the athletic excellence, in which Channel 4 was at least halfway successful.

"I'm, let's say, halfway successful, but I can say, 'Don't blame me for having a luxury car because it also saves more miles,' " Mr. Chestnut said.

Four of the Mets' five farm opened their seasons Fri day night, and the result was halfway successful: Tidewater of the International League de feated Buffalo, 4‐1; Memphis of the.

Coburn also has spoken with Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union and one of the commission's most liberal members, and found "a lot of areas where we think we can work together". "If this commission is even halfway successful, it's a big win for Obama.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, who has been among the leaders of the movement to force Mr. Imus off the air, said in a telephone interview that "we have been halfway successful so far" and that he and others would continue to press CBS to join NBC in cutting ties to Mr. Imus.

No matter what happens in the coming weeks, the briefest macro-analysis tells us that Iran does conform to normal patterns of social development in this way: When you operate a halfway successful command economy, one that succeeds in creating a broad middle class, you create political trouble.

But they are halfway to a successful defense of their National Hockey League championship after beating the Toronto Maple Leafs, 5-1, toninht in Continental Arena to win their Eastern Conference semifinal series, four games to three.

The consortium scientists were halfway through a successful 15-year program to complete the human genome by 2005, when Dr. Venter announced in May 1998 that as head of a new company, later called Celera, he would beat them to their goal by 5 years.

That's halfway to becoming a successful designer.

Was ESPN successful in 1979, halfway through the year after their launch?

With the US race now (presumably) sewn up after YMCMB's input, and the UK's coalition Government passing the halfway point in its ludicrously successful term in power, I started to wonder how far our next election could be dictated by musicians' whims and endorsements.