It succeeded only after Ms. Bialik, frustrated with her stylist ("It was not a meeting of the minds," she said), bought her own dress online.
Students said they were well aware that the South Africa campaign succeeded only after on-campus actions like hunger strikes, sit-ins and the seizure of buildings.
Attempts to get Windows Me installed on a third computer, also a Dell, succeeded only after I erased most of my favorite applications from the hard disk.
Mr. Baxley said he had lobbied for years to gain access to the F.B.I. files and had succeeded only after Jack Nelson, a reporter for The Los Angeles Times, threatened to write that the bureau was stonewalling.
The value of the accomplishment was later questioned, however, when Pentagon officials acknowledged last week that the interceptor had succeeded only after a series of mistakes caused it to drift off course.
Like many others, Ms. Pamoukian said she struggled to find a plane ticket, and succeeded only after pleading with the airline to give her a break because a friend was getting married.
He had no way of knowing that his epic fight to use the Freedom of Information law to release these documents — which succeeded only after four lengthy, exasperating lawsuits — would conclude just as America seemed to be entering another period of '60s-style street tumult and divisiveness.
Even Valagamba's resistance movement was initially hampered because of a rift with the Mahavihara, and he succeeded only after a reconciliation was affected.
In recent years many game publishers have been far too enamored of the idea that a big game can succeed only if released after Labor Day.
Venezuelan law says that any referendum held after Aug. 19 would succeed only in removing the president, not replacing him.
They succeed only in perpetuating false assumptions.
