He succeeded in securing a transfer only after making his third application, he said in April.
On his release (1668) he went to Rome, where he succeeded in securing at least temporary toleration for the converted Jews.
It was a personal triumph for Williams that during the 1970s, as old traditional industries declined in the Valleys, he succeeded in securing new business investment, notably from Japan.
I shall never forget a meeting at the Department for Education and Skills with senior personnel when Bernard, confronted by their scepticism towards the project, played the role of rather eccentric professor for much of the time and so disarmed the critics that he succeeded in securing all that he required.
He succeeded in securing an alliance with the Athenians, who immediately declared war on the Macedonians.
Last October, he succeeded in securing a constitutional change that permits him to run for a third consecutive term.
He succeeded in securing a client whose collective punishment and mass eradication survival strategy has wrecked a country, created a humanitarian abomination, sent waves of humanity fleeing into neighboring countries and beyond to Western Europe, and made much of eastern Syria safe for the people who, in the past four months, have performed mass atrocities in Paris and Brussels.
What is not well known is that if President Obama succeeds in securing the minimum wage increase he is seeking, the government could end up with more than half of the increased pay gained by some of the minimum wage workers he claims to want to help.
If another city succeeds in securing the 25,000 Amazon jobs promised to New York, the mania will only continue.
And if a campaign succeeds in securing too ambitious a wage rise – especially in a fragile local labour market – then jobs really will be lost.
