Sentence examples for provisional success from inspiring English sources

In July 2006, a cull of invasive brown rats on the Scottish island of Canna was deemed a provisional success and after two years of observation, during which time no rats were observed, the island was declared officially rat free by the Environment Minister, Mike Russell on 7 June 2008.

The Iraq war is no longer the most important issue on the minds of voters (the economy is), and election-year debate about the war, formerly an argument about strategic failure, now must also account for provisional successes.

In the wake of the success, the Massachusetts provisional government agreed to organize an expedition on a larger scale against Quebec, the capital of New France, and gave its command to Phips.

Provisional leaders with the best records of success tend to have executive experience, like Lech Walesa of Poland and B. J. Habibie of Indonesia, or years of service in parties or legislatures, like Patricio Aylwin, who led Chile to democracy after the Pinochet dictatorship.

The user is counseled before starting that "the following is a provisional workaround procedure that has had some limited success" and is urged to "follow the steps of this procedure exactly for the highest possible chance of success".

Drake resembles Charlie Brown, permanently resigned to all success being fleeting and all pleasure being provisional.

Implant success and survival were assessed at suture removal, provisional restoration, final restoration, and at the 12-month follow-up.

A third approach is to transform the patient's pre-existing conventional denture into a provisional fixed prosthesis, which several investigators have used with apparent good clinical success (Calvo et al. 2000; Cooper et al. 2002; Chee & Jivraj 2003; Aalam et al. 2005).

The program's success with the transfer exception at quarterback, however, is most likely a provisional solution.

Clearly, our findings are provisional and call for further research, as it would be interesting to compare the reasons for the success of those DMUs that had the highest efficiency scores – equal to 1 – in a DEA analysis.

The idea of Pakistan was shaky and provisional from the beginning; the country has already lost half its territory in a war; and its ultimate success cannot be taken for granted.