Sir Stelios fought a long and successful campaign to force easyJet to be more generous.
Some became politically active only last summer, when 500,000 people marched in a successful effort to force the government to withdraw plans for a stringent internal-security law.
The following year, scores of bakers and consumers joined forces with politicians and regional newspaper the Western Morning News in a successful bid to force a government U-turn on the controversial pasty tax.
Describes a number of kidnappings of relatives & friends Of high government officials in a partly successful attempt to force the government to relax its terms for drug dealers surrendering.
Steve Stoliar, while still college-age, was part of the successful campaign to force the 1974 re-release of "Animal Crackers," the Marxes' 1930 film, then inexplicably in mothballs and in danger of being lost, deteriorated and forgotten.
This wasn't an isolated case, he knew, and it led to a daunting, but ultimately successful, campaign to force Eastman Kodak, the leading manufacturer of color-film stock, to develop and bring to the market an affordable, durable product.
In his long litigation career, Mr. Olson has specialized in taking on conservative cases like his successful effort to force the University of Texas to eliminate affirmative action in its law school admissions.
Mr. Foley's five and a half years as speaker were marked by a successful effort to force President Bush to accept tax increases as part of a 1990 deficit-reduction deal, and by unsuccessful opposition to the president's plans to invade Iraq in 1991.
But President Obama's successful move to force BP to establish a $20 billion compensation fund that the company will have no voice in allocating — just a down payment, the president insisted — may have been the most vivid example of what he recently called his determination to step in and do "what individuals couldn't do and corporations wouldn't do".
However, with the seating of the new Parliament, there are hopes among Afghanistan's Western backers that lawmakers, fresh off their successful push to force the inauguration, will remain united and be emboldened to act as a counterweight to the president's power.
