But on Monday night, after five successive tries, Mr. Combs won a prize, if not the respect of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, at its annual gala.
It's my personal "Groundhog Day"; the place where, with each successive trip, I try to fix something that went south on a previous visit or add a new element to my Florida rotation.
Successive Administrations tried to counter with price controls, reduced speed limits, and so on.
But the mutable tubercle bacillus proved an elusive target, becoming resistant to each successive drug tried.
Successive leaders tried their best, but the party continued to languish and no one expected it to rally.
Traditionally, the birds come back to Cooper Island over three successive nights, trying to gauge the degree of snow melt from the air, and there are dangers at every turn.
On August 10th, a group of marchers set off for Brussels from the delta of the river Ebro, one of the areas liable to be most affected.Spain's last long-term water policy was drawn up in 1933, and the issue has dogged successive governments trying to update it.
In Tudor England successive monarchs tried to define social status by dress - Henry VIII passed four separate pieces of sumptuary legislation during his reign.
This result is even more striking considering that during the Neoliberal years successive government tried to take Bolivia, unsuccessfully, out of the cocaine circuit by strict controls on the amount of coca plantations (through Plan Dignidad).
The book influenced British political thinking prior to 1914 and despite rising tensions with Germany successive governments tried to shape a mutually acceptable power balance.
Successive regimes tried to control inflation through wage and price controls, cuts in public spending, and restriction of the money supply.
