Sentence examples for success to count from inspiring English sources

One day, I stood on Round Hill Road with a real-estate agent and tried, without success, to count the number of workers swarming the grounds, like time-lapse termites in rewind.

It was necessary to show an improvement of at least ½ standard deviation (SD) on at least four of the five constructs of the success criterion to count as successful ("Standard Deviation Method").

Granted, that.333 success rate (if we are to count McNabb's career in Philly as successful by No. 2 overall pick standards) has nothing to do with Griffin's outlook.

The men seem to have died in the Tet Offensive, an action, in 1968, that made clear that we would be fools to count our success in terms of bodies — by that measure, we would have won.

The Border Patrol gets to count as success its own estimate of how many run back into Mexico — a fairly unscientific number that can rely on agents' reading of a footstep in the sand or a broken blade of grass.

Nor, Chusid argues, does it quite include an out-there genius like Brian Wilson, who -- despite living in his bedroom for 10 years and battling countless demons -- simply had too much commercial success with the Beach Boys to count.

The Villaraigosa vision, outlined at a successful charter school in poor south Los Angeles, stresses more charter schools (LA has 86 at the moment) "both to give families more choices and to keep positive pressure on the school bureaucracy"; more parental involvement; more school uniforms; and more after-school activities.Great stuff, but it would be naive to count on success.

"Unfortunately for these kinds of projects in Afghanistan, you don't even need the fingers on one hand to count the success stories," the Republican senator told VICE News after reading the recent report.

Some data marketing systems have already been abandoned -- though that doesn't mean that privacy-rights advocates should be retiring to count their successes.

But to count this as success is to aim very low.

Then Mr. Bush will be able to count this convention a success, and Mr. Gore can count on having his hands full this fall.