Mr. Rogers, I learned, has been wildly successful in using this technique with a variety of miniature amaryllis hybrids, even some that weren't red.
To a surprising extent, Democrats and their allies were successful in using the courts to wrest the worst of these laws off the books before Election Day.
"We've actually been successful in using distributed computing to achieve fundamental results in computational biology," said Vijay Pande, the Stanford professor of chemistry and structural biology who directs Folding@Home and the 80,000-plus volunteers it has enlisted.
Isis has been particularly successful in using the internet to recruit women and young girls, with at least 22 travelling to join the extremist group in Syria in 2014.
Barack Obama's mastery of the medium probably helped him in 2008, though not as much as some people have claimed (he was just as successful in using old technology, such as ward meetings, and John McCain was a dismal candidate).
Why? Compare the above author's approach with the one taken by the urban idol Jane Jacobs, who was uniquely successful in using her love of her surrounding built environment to make the case for preserving and expanding it.
What also counts is the extent to which countries are successful in using the knowledge they generate.One way of looking at that is to count how many patents a country produces.
Officials at Calpers, which was particularly successful in using its influence to hold down health-care costs for much of the last decade, see fewer opportunities now to keep costs down as the population ages and makes greater use of new drugs and technology.
The current model ia successful in using plastic material in a discontinuum code for intact rocks.
Other medical disciplines have been successful in using these simulators for education and training in cardiac-related conditions.
