Sentence examples for succeed in checking from inspiring English sources

Although rural electrification did contribute to bridging the gap between urban and rural life, it did not succeed in checking the movement of farm workers to cities; the application of technical innovations, in fact, acted to increase productivity per man-hour and to replace hand labour with automation and mechanization.

The great question is whether the Party will succeed in "checking and balancing" weibo, or if weibo will balance and check the Party.

Police say Khayat didn't succeed in checking in the bag containing the bomb, and took it home with him, while his brother – who police say was unaware of the plot – boarded the plane.

This tactic may have succeeded in checking the ambitions of powerful henchmen, but Egyptians complain of a growing sense of drift.

A member of a powerful aristocratic family and a count of various regions between the Seine and Loire rivers, Robert served the Carolingian king of France Charles II the Bald; by his bold and inspiring military leadership he succeeded in checking the depredations of the Northmen who were laying waste the settlements near the Loire.

Silva is encouraged that others in Africa are increasingly paying attention to the case of the Angola 15, particularly following movements in Senegal and Burkina Faso that have succeeded in checking autocratic rule.

By early morning the Chinese had seized parts of the forward American trench-line and moved to isolate the position with indirect fire and patrols which penetrated between the outpost and the main defensive position to the rear; however, with the Marines still controlling the rear trenches they successfully reorganised their defence and succeeded in checking the Chinese assault.

Shipments of gold were on the way from London to New York, and confidence had returned to the French Bourse, "owing," reported one paper, "to the belief that the strong men in American finance would succeed in their efforts to check the spirit of the panic".

Since Mr. Chrétien announced in August that he would step down in 2004 rather than run for a fourth term, he has tried to keep the jockeying to succeed him in check.

The HEWs did not succeed in improving utilization of health facility delivery, PNC check up and use of iodized salt.

Will China succeed in these acquisitions?