Sentence examples for temporary success from inspiring English sources

Some have enjoyed temporary success.

In 1511 the Indians rebelled but had only temporary success against the better-armed Spanish, who again subjugated them.

The ambitions of Břetislav, who was enthroned in 1034, ran higher, and he invaded Poland in 1039 with only temporary success.

In a conflict with the church, represented by Jan of Jenštein, archbishop of Prague, the king achieved temporary success; the archbishop resigned and died in Rome (1400).

In the first year of the war, Major General David Petraeus achieved a temporary success when, as a divisional commander in northern Iraq, he applied the basic ideas of counterinsurgency.

In the general war that followed his failure to answer this summons, John had a temporary success at Mirebeau in August 1202, when Arthur of Brittany was captured, but Normandy was quickly lost (1204).

The German general staff, by 1918, had developed new tactics and command structures that proved effective in conditions of modern industrial war, leading to victory in the east and brilliant, if temporary, successes in the west.

If so, Cruz and Rubio have achieved stunning (temporary) successes.

Although the brigade achieved some temporary successes during these months, Francisco Franco's troops were already on the road to victory.

Although he met with temporary successes, the British were able to maintain a colonial presence in the area.

All of them failed eventually, but I had some temporary successes with my moderation attempts, which fed my denial.