Their early work met with resistance.
But Dr. Servan-Schrieber's work met with phenomenal success, both in France and elsewhere.
Composed originally for a school chorus at the request of a family friend of Lloyd Webber, the work met with unexpected success and later, as an expanded stage show, became a smash hit in the United Kingdom and, eventually, across the globe.
An attempt to conserve Quebec's religion, language, and laws, the work met with great success and inspired a reawakening of interest by poets, novelists, and other historians in French-Canadian culture.
Mr. Purdy's early work met with critical enthusiasm, and in 1960 he moved to New York, where the photographer Carl Van Vechten introduced him to a circle of friends that included Paul Bowles and Dorothy Parker.
From the start, Miller's work met with resistance as well as admiration, particularly from those who carried the banner of biological determinism in the never-ending nature-nurture debate.
Yet, writing in various genres, realism among them, I found that my work met with particularly knowledgeable appreciation and criticism among science-fiction readers (not the same thing as sci-fi fans, some of whom read nothing but sci-fi and some of whom read nothing).
This early work met with vigorous objections.
Kuhn's work met with a largely critical reception among philosophers.
Boltzmann's work met with mixed reactions during his lifetime, and continue to do so even today.
