On January 30 , 2005 despite the ongoing violence, general elections were successfully held for Iraq's new 275-member Transitional National Assembly. 275-member Transitional National Assembly
Despite the dangers of Isis and death threats to contestants, the Miss Iraq beauty pageant has been successfully held for the first time in over 40 years.
While anger over Mr. Eckern's financial support for Proposition 8 is understandable, pressuring him to resign from a job he had successfully held for many years crossed the line into punishing a person for his political views.
Finally, in July, Maduro successfully held elections for the new body, which he called the constituent assembly.
The Imperial garrisons, exhausted by constant war with the Persians, retreated into the walled towns, where they successfully held out for a year or more.
They challenged the Japanese invaders of Luzon, holding off armoured and infantry regiments during the invasion of the Philippines, repelled a unit of tanks in Binalonan, and successfully held ground for the Allied armies' retreat to Bataan.
One shark that never had been successfully held in captivity for long was the great white.
These decentralized, bottom-up measures, monitored by local governments, domestic non-profit organizations and an activated populace, successfully held industries accountable for cleaning up manufacturing processes and resulted in widespread gains in technological efficiency.
The addition of of Maker to Sling TV, then, serves as a bridge – attracting young teens and twenty-somethings to the service and introducing them to cable channels that they had long ago stopped watching (if they ever watched them at all), while introducing television advertisers to the content that has so successfully held this valuable young demographic captive for the past several years.
Howe was left in possession of the battle site, but Villaret had successfully held off the British long enough for the convoy to pass to the east unmolested.
Strong Ottoman Army positions from Gaza to the foothills of the Judean Hills had successfully held out against British Empire forces for a week after the Ottoman army was defeated at Beersheba.
