Sentence examples for have sometimes succeeded from inspiring English sources

Incomes policies have sometimes succeeded for short periods.

Yet international attempts to create a society from the ground up have sometimes succeeded.

Although the perpetrators have sometimes succeeded, typically by deploying brutal force, they have seldom evaded justice when their ploy failed.

And he is not an extremist: although staunch conservatives have tried to claim him as one of their own, and have sometimes succeeded, he seems to be basically a man of the centre-right.

Using this method, already applied to eight patients, the researchers have sometimes succeeded in observing electrical anomalies, but only a few seconds before the seizure, rather than a few minutes as had been hoped.

The village defense committees have only sometimes succeeded at their task.

While it has not succeeded, its efforts have sometimes delayed or disrupted discussions.

Society has tried, and sometimes succeeded, to teach us that men are all about sex and women are all about reproduction; they've used gender stereotypes to shape scientific research and blinded researchers to the existence and power of female lust.

The post-industrial, post-Rust Belt, post-recession economy spills across state lines, and Mr. Santorum has tried, and sometimes succeeded, to draw the lower blue-collar or working-class voters into his corner.

(ID067) I have definitely tried and sometimes succeeded in taking planned rest periods.

Respondents noted how using strategies such as those in Box 1 could help to change priorities and provide more opportunities for enjoyable, valued activities: I have definitely tried and sometimes succeeded in taking planned rest periods.