Sentence examples for transitory success from inspiring English sources

"The main thing I have to prevent myself from becoming is disillusioned with transitory success," he said recently.

It also provides a textbook example of just how transitory success can be in the world of high technology, where there is always a possibility that some competitor may be about to introduce a product that will destroy the market for your cash cow.

However, the transitory success is not due to the map as such, it is rather due to a transitory adaptation of social system and environment through the map.

So long as the ubiquity of conflict situations conducive to violence is the hallmark of international relations, attempts to delimit and to limit violent acts of any type will have only partial, transitory success.

There was no way of knowing whether Hussein's apprehension might prove as transitory a success as the toppling of his statue, but suddenly the antiwar position seemed like a less marketable commodity than it had the day before.

In the 90s, Higgins had opened for the Spice Girls at Wembley stadium and played for the pope; she had starred in two series of an ITV sitcom and had a US hit record; but her success was transitory and a decade of comeback attempts had led her to the reality show.

In the field, his successes were transitory, his failures all too real, and because he proved infinitely adaptable, none of it really mattered or stanched the flood of adjectives from admirers of every political stripe.

Nevertheless, diversification may not be so transitory, and it may be associated with success in achieving livelihood security under improving economic conditions as well as livelihood distress in deteriorating conditions.

The food is transitory.

It's not transitory.

Vain transitory splendours!