Kaufman's ruling impulse, always, is to succeed, to win, not to impose his mordant view of life.
Washington might have to yield if it wants to succeed in imposing bilateral regulations on government-owned investment funds from emerging economies.
The issue came up when the spokesman was asked about today's FT story saying that Britain will succeed in blocking an EU plan to impose a quota.
But their dominance and indeed survival will depend on the extent to which they succeed in imposing their own norms and criteria of excellence.
From 1704 to 1711 he attempted to impose his rule but succeeded only in Catalonia.
Crystal did say that a certain amount of spelling reform might eventually come from the Internet: "People who try to impose reform 'top down' rarely succeed.
But this was not enough to save the system, she says, because program managers did not succeed in imposing the short deadlines of 18 to 24 months that the department now requires for similar projects.
The Olmert government, and the Netanyahu government that succeeded it in 2009, leveraged the public anger to impose stricter censorship.
However well a new style of teaching has worked in the hands of enthusiastic, well-trained staff, it is much less likely to succeed when imposed on those who suspect it and do not understand it.
"I would like to reconfirm what we have said before, that U.S. and British efforts to impose a new unfair resolution will never succeed," Mr. Aziz said.
The flight, he said, shows that Washington's and London's attempts to impose their will on others "are not succeeding".
