Sentence examples for succeed for a while from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

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

Adair even succeeded, for a while, in deleting "e" from his vocabulary.

He even succeeded for a while in promoting Singapore as the centre of "Asian values".

Peter tries not to be bothered, and succeeds for a while.

Price fixing by vanilla growers in Madagascar succeeded for a while, but then Uganda flooded the market with cheaper beans.

Whenever I tried to stop, just to prove I could, I succeeded for a while but I always caved in.

I have already had one marriage that did not work out (I hesitate to call it a failed marriage because it succeeded for a fair while) and this one has already lasted a lot longer, which I take as a good sign.

Read part one of our Investigation of the derailment of the SEC here. .