So she put the metronome away and just asked him to play the passage over and over, a little bit faster each time, until, lo and behold, he was attaining the impossible.
Antonio Ramos, general manager of BJ's Wholesale Club, which opened Aug. 1 and requires shoppers to become members, said his store was attaining "phenomenal membership numbers," far exceeding expectations.
In 1960, just as Alaska was attaining statehood, President Dwight D Eisenhower signed an order to set aside one wild corner of the region in perpetuity, excluding it from certain kinds of private development and exploitation.
For example, in several tests of the Sprint service, using speed meters available from Internet service providers like the one from Speakeasy (www.speakeasy.net/speedtest), I was attaining download speeds from 785 to 870 kilobits a second.
Finally, on the same night that Cain was attaining perfection, R. A. Dickey of the Mets managed a game score of 95 by striking out 12 in a one-hitter against the Tampa Bay Rays.
Their common desideratum was attaining harmonious relations between the ministers and the rulers; not coincidentally, the common simile of these relations was that of friends, i.e. of equals.
