Sentence examples for successful quest from inspiring English sources

It was testimony to how driven Torres was in her unlikely and ultimately successful quest to return to the Olympics.

While there, the troops also intervened in the rebellion taking place, supporting Laurent Kabila in his successful quest to depose Zairean president Mobutu Sese Seko.

So begins their successful quest to save their city from its evil and hated rulers; life in Aramanth becomes much better.

His father, Cecil Fielder, was a superstar whose unlikely, but successful, quest for 50 home runs during the 1990 season made him the story of the summer in Detroit.

Just as the 1990s dawned, the Smashing Pumpkins began their ultimately very successful quest to make what their bassist, D'Arcy, called "beautiful music that varies" out of many-hued guitar tones that cracked and frazzled.

In 1402 his younger half brother Sigismund (later Holy Roman emperor), whom the King had aided in his successful quest for the Hungarian crown (1387), deposed Wenceslas in Bohemia.

I hitchhiked across North Africa and in a zawiya (a kind of Sufi monastery) in Algeria I saw miraculous things and experienced ecstasy, but, though the books listed below are narratives of successful quests, my own Memoirs of a Dervish is uniquely an account of ultimate spiritual failure".

For example, a successful vision quest was a condition of male eligibility to join a hunting party in many Native American cultures.

A Serbian, Tanja Ostojic, exhaustively documents her successful Internet quest to acquire a husband with a European Union passport, so that she could live in Western Europe.

While highly successful, the quest for designing surgical instrumentation and associated implantable devices that hastens osseointegration has been perpetual and has often been approached as single variable preclinical investigations.

No one expects De Bourbon-Parme to be successful in his quest for ancestral vindication.