The true measure of success will be if the islands are guaranteed a future.
The true test of success in diversifying Gulf economies away from state-run oil will be when some of that money chooses to come home.
The true bar of success is actually to get a movie made, which Radical has so far been unable to do despite the flurry of development activity.
If it continues to put off telling taxpayers what the true cost of success will be, then John Murtha is right: we should get out sooner rather than later.
Miller became mantrically obsessed with Broadway's decline, and never shed his generation's sense of a Broadway hit as the true benchmark of success.
Roberts cites a report projecting that the true measure of success will soon be whether foodstuffs "can be consumed one-handed, and whether packaging causes a mess".
A Decc spokesman on Monday was even clearer: "Thursday's statistics will provide the first available figures on installations, which is the true indicator of success".
"We have to create a true culture of success and respect in our schools if our children are to strive for their full potential," he said.
And the true test of success, he said, will be whether the project elevates climate change to a core concern for Americans.
WHAT Hal Sutton calls "the last true barometer of success" in golf, making the Ryder Cup team, hovers over nine Americans like the wind at Whistling Straits in today's final round of this 86th Professional Golfers Association Championship.
