Technical feats are undertaken, and mostly achieved, with dogged persistence.
In other words, the smartphone patent wars mostly achieved nothing except bad reputations and embarrassing court disclosures of internal documents.
This was mostly achieved by switching off needless air-conditioning and, according to the company, showed that the system was working as it should.
Few are predicting, for instance, that any foreign-language film will make the cut: for Hollywood, the highest form of excellence is mostly achieved in English.
Carreno-Busta had an impressive 39-match winning streak earlier this year, although mostly achieved at the much lower Futures level.
All his victories, mostly achieved by freakishly wide margins, have come in soft company in his homeland and in Italy, Austria, Slovakia and Germany.
The construction of a modern road network came after the building of the railways and was mostly achieved in the second half of the 20th century.
The same could be said of the gradual abolition of slavery, which was mostly achieved not by war, but by an emerging popular recognition of its cruelty and injustice.
He is the only prominent black star in country music, the first since Charley Pride, a distinction Mr. Rucker has mostly achieved by taking care to show he belongs.
California, a state in comparable if not worse budgetary distress, would get no such relief for its previous expansions of Medicaid because they were mostly achieved through amendments to its state Medicaid plan, not the waiver process.
The rationing, mostly achieved by telling factories that their power will be shut off for a day or two each week, coincides with the annual frenzy of factory production to meet orders before shutting down for the Chinese New Year holidays, which fall in early February this year.
