Sentence examples for success of a sort from inspiring English sources

Coalition commanders contend that Bamian's instability actually is an indication of success of a sort: they have said that coalition and Afghan forces are compressing the fighting space and pushing desperate insurgents to more remote areas, like Bamian.

After the social satire of "A Quiet Family," he stayed with comedy, though in a more personal vein, in "The Foul King" (2000), an alternately sweet and bleak tale about a man who fails as a bank clerk but finds success of a sort as a professional-wrestling villain.

(In one example of EE's 'energetic' upselling of 4G that was retold to me, the carrier's sales staff sold an LTE upgrade to an existing customer despite there being no EE 4G in that customer's home area or at their place of work — and no plans for coverage to be added to either area in future. So, yes, that's success of a sort).

It's success of a sort, but nowhere near a real solution.

Miller also attributes much of WedPics' success to a sort of scrappiness that comes from companies based outside the Valley.

This is not to say that the album is entirely unappealing; a few songs, including "Speed of Sound" and "Talk" (the latter has the album's best hook, although it's lifted from Kraftwerk's "Computer Love"), are successes of a sort.

Nonetheless, from the New START treaty (which Trump has called "another bad deal," as he does any deal the Obama administration concluded) to the Iran nuclear deal to the opening with Cuba, Obama had genuine successes of a sort that our present narcissist-in-chief, with his emphasis on looking "tough" or tweeting at the drop of a hat, is unlikely to achieve.

Ferguson may have out-lasted prime ministers, popes and dictators while combining the charisma, drive and zeal of all three, but on 6 November 1986, his new club two decades without a league title,  success of any sort required a seismic change.

For a while, that point was obscured by another difficulty: that of achieving success of any sort in a primitive, unruly place like Afghanistan.

Export success (of a very modest sort) was limited to tiny tyres for the hand-pushed rubbish carts used by street-sweepers in Indonesia.By 1993 Triangle had grown, but it was losing money, held huge inventories and had an awkward salary structure that distinguished between communist cadres and everyone else.

Defeat, though, would also represent a success of sorts – a first silver medal in British women's hockey history.