Sentence examples for succeed for a from inspiring English sources

He did succeed for a while in owning the even more ailing Portsmouth football club.

At Lamda, they told him that he had a strange face, so he probably wouldn't succeed for a few years till it had settled down.

It seemed as though he might succeed, for a short time, but in the end the boy was not to be saved.

Mr Abbas, a street vendor of sweet, milky sahleb in Abu Dis, across the valley from Jerusalem, reckoned that his namesake, Yasser Arafat's former right-hand man, would "succeed for a bit", but then he would run into problems.A lot of Palestinians must feel the same.

The conventional wisdom was that it would never work, it would never succeed, for a hundred different reasons.

You might succeed for a while, but you will eventually crash and burn and have nothing," she said during one conference event.

They use a technique known as decision trees to identify the treatment option most likely to succeed for an individual.

They succeeded, for a while, and then he was eaten.

Spain has succeeded for a variety of reasons.

By appealing to American patriotism and decrying Japanese imports, Mr Iacocca succeeded for a while.

Walsh also hired D'Antoni, who succeeded for a time with Stoudemire but clashed with Anthony.