| When you burn your boats, you have to take the island. There is no other option. There is no exit plan except success. |
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| Free schools have been a great success - now let's keep up the momentum for education. |
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| We need to calculate our chances of success before we invest more money in the business. |
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| No one is trying to denigrate the importance of a good education. We all know that it is crucial for success. |
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| Much of his success as a politician can be attributed to his personal magnetism. |
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| The success of the album, which is only available online, is a testament to the power of the Internet. |
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| She believes that success should be defined in terms of health and happiness. |
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| Our knowledge of his tragic end adds an element of pathos to the story of his early success. |
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| They've tried to improve their procedures, with varying degrees of success. |
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| She's worked hard to get where she is. You shouldn't begrudge her the success she's earned. |
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| The Romantic poets attempted to revive Shakespearean verse drama, though with little success. |
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| Community leaders have had some success in democratizing the organization. |
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| She feels as if her success is being blocked by an invisible barrier. |
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| The rest of us were sick of hearing her crow about her success. |
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| His success serves as an eloquent reminder of the value of hard work. |
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| Her brother's success and popularity always made her feel inadequate. |
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| These men were carefully selected, often having strong records of military success and administrative ability. |
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| Its success, usually viewed through the prism of the hypermarketed Ultimate Fighting Championship, has been building for years. |
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| His apparent success led to Roman invasion, nominally in support of his defeated enemies. |
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| Constantius's campaign, like that of Septimius Severus before it, probably advanced far into the north without achieving great success. |
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| Part of the Muslims' success was due to the exhaustion of the Byzantine empire in its decades long conflict with Persia. |
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| The success of the language is the most obvious result of the settlement period. |
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| After these conversions, Augustine sent Laurence back to Rome with a report of his success, along with questions about the mission. |
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| Although 'Edwardian Mercia' never had the success of 'Victorian Wessex', it was an idea that appealed to the higher echelons of society. |
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| Contemporary writers considered the marriage, which produced four sons and five or six daughters, to be a success. |
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| John of Gaunt assumed leadership in France with limited success, and peace negotiations over several years were inconclusive. |
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| Meanwhile, John undertook an expedition to Ireland in 1185, which was not a success. |
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| Llywelyn and other Welsh chieftains soon joined in, and initially the Welsh experienced military success. |
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| The city of Vannes changed hands several times, while further campaigns in Gascony met with mixed success for both sides. |
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| In the light of this military success, Richard of York moved to press his claim to the throne based on the illegitimacy of the Lancastrian line. |
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| By masterminding these reforms, wrote Elton, Cromwell laid the foundations of England's future stability and success. |
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| These campaigns had given Henry a taste of the military success he so desired. |
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| Despite the early success with Scotland, Henry hesitated to invade France, annoying Charles. |
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| Thirty years later, he sent the Spanish Armada to overthrow her, without success. |
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| Those from the less prosperous Hispaniola were eager to search for new success in a new settlement. |
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| In the meantime the aim of choking Dutch shipping was carried out by the Dunkirkers with considerable success. |
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| This made him one of the principal landowners in Munster, but he had limited success inducing English tenants to settle on his estates. |
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| The success of these voyages led to the founding of a number of companies competing for the trade. |
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| Shakespeare continued to act in his own and other plays after his success as a playwright. |
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| Cromwell led his wing with great success at Naseby, again routing the Royalist cavalry. |
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| Even the men he had trained and who owed much of their success to Wren's original and leadership were no longer young. |
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| This new approach to the grass roots helped to define Whiggism and opened the way for later success. |
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| This success proved the viability of canal transport, and soon industrialists in many other parts of the country wanted canals. |
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| The opening ceremony was considered a success and that evening 102 people sat down to a celebratory dinner at the Town Hall. |
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| The Manchester Velodrome was built as a part of the bid for the 2000 games and has become a catalyst for British success in cycling. |
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| Critical to his success in confronting Napoleon was using Britain's superior economic resources. |
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| A key element in British success was its ability to mobilise the nation's industrial and financial resources and apply them to defeating France. |
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| Empire of the Sun was an enormous literary and commercial success in Britain but pretty much bit the Big One on its own in the United States. |
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| Web services build on the success of the Web and allow operational, or browserless, exchanges between organizations. |
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| In proof of this I can assert my success in extinguishing a youthful bubbler near Reykholt church. |
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| By the time our waitress comes by to take our order, I am nodding my head in earnest to Badlands' personal recipe for gurgitory success. |
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| He had tried bullying, and without success. He would try cajoling and temptation. |
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| He was commended for his work, and there is no suggestion that if he had eschewed all coat trailings his success would have been greater. |
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| The head will serve for my new coinage, and be an omen to all dutiful subjects of my future success. |
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| The success of his undertaking is contingent upon events which he cannot control. |
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| The success of this lush costumer encouraged Woo to try his hand at comedy. |
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| The student celebrated his exam success by drinking heavily and finally was arrested for being drunk and disorderly. |
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| We can judge of the probable success of this course, by the various laws passed to alter, or amend, or repeal, previous emendatory acts. |
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| Some of the exonerees did meet with partial success during their appeals and postconviction process, but this success was usually short-lived. |
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| And with a wave of merchandising almost ready to go, there is every indication of fadish success. |
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| Why was Emerson a failure in 1940s Hollywood but a blazing success as a femcee on early 1950s television? |
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| I knew that if I failed it would kill my parents, who, gamblerlike, were staking their very existence on my success. |
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| After the experiment was widely deemed a success, the House voted 342-44 to make gavel-to-gavel broadcast permanent. |
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| The first-generation iPhone was released in June 2007 and was an instant blockbuster success. |
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| Thank you to all our dedicated volunteers who have given of themselves to make this project a success. |
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| So the Harvard diploma is now, more than ever, a golden ticket to a certain kind of success. |
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| His works have dominated London's West End since the late 20th century and have also been a commercial success worldwide. |
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| Oil and gas exploration in the Celtic Sea has had limited commercial success. |
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| After initial success, the Germans learned how to pass through the barrage, aided by the unreliability of British mines. |
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| This success helped inspire a period of intense canal building, known as Canal Mania. |
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| Reducing friction was one of the major reasons for the success of railroads compared to wagons. |
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| Bobby joined Manchester United and Jackie Leeds United both contributing much to the success and history of their respective clubs. |
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| Part of the reason for Robert I's success in the Wars of Independence was his ability to call on naval forces from the Islands. |
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| Labour displaced the Liberal Party for second place and achieved major success with the 1922 general election. |
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| Late Roman attempts to translate Greek writings into Latin had limited success. |
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| Not playing the hunger games of success, not undergoing the mechanical hoopla of PR, he could go on stubbornly being Kent Haruf, doing his job. |
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| Following this success they built a coalition of several previous enemies of Rome. |
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| The Silures were not finally conquered until circa AD 76 when Sextus Julius Frontinus' long campaign against them began to have success. |
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| I'm a man past his prime who's been to the rodeo and back, as they say. I've been an actor, a bartender, a maitre d', and a hustler, without much success at any of them. |
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| Other English clubs have enjoyed success, Tottenham Hotspur, Ipswich Town, Chelsea, and Liverpool have won the UEFA Cup, renamed UEFA Europa League. |
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| Reports are coming to hand from a very large number of districts as to the success which has attended the use of the Bordeaux mixture as a preventive of potato disease. |
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| A key factor in Broder' s success was its maintenance of a large backstock of goods, which led to a higher order fulfillment ratio and happier customers. |
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| More recent UK music acts that have had international success include Coldplay, Radiohead, Oasis, Spice Girls, Robbie Williams, Amy Winehouse and Adele. |
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| Buoyed by the huge success, they announced two other projects. |
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| The English were also experiencing military success on the continent. |
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| The Polish army captured West Galicia following its earlier success. |
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| Without an abatement agreement there would have been no chorusing from the government about the great success and triumph that Fontainebleau represented for Britain. |
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| Known for its huge commercial success, the Bridgewater Canal in North West England, which opened in 1761 and was mostly funded by The 3rd Duke of Bridgewater. |
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| The authorities attempted some accommodation with Presbyterian dissidents, introducing official 'Indulgences' in 1669 and 1672, meeting with some limited success. |
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| With the success of the Panama isthmus raid, in 1577 Elizabeth I of England sent Drake to start an expedition against the Spanish along the Pacific coast of the Americas. |
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| Alfred is particularly credited with the success of this last battle. |
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| While he's grateful for his fans' support since the phenomenal success of Sherlock, Benedict is also very forthright about some of the more intrusive aspects of Cumbermania. |
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| The Latin Boogaloo trend was motivated by the intrigue and success of the national Boogaloo trend, which in turn influenced the dancescape of American pop culture. |
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| Some tracks even rely solely on electric guitars and drums, giving them a rawer, demolike feel that puts the burden of success squarely on the singer's shoulders. |
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| Wessex's history of failures preceding his success in 878 emphasised to Alfred that the traditional system of battle he had inherited played to the Danes' advantage. |
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| Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients. |
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| His office was already showing signs of his success even on that first meeting, with photographs on the walls showing his various escapological achievements. |
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| The bases of exomoonology are the initial success of the CoRoT mission that was the first space mission designed to search for exo-planets similar to the Earth itself. |
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| The inauguration of the new bar was a success, with plenty of discounts. |
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| In addition to this, the Irish International side has had increased success in the Six Nations Championship against the other European elite sides. |
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| A measure of William's success in taking control is that, from 1072 until the Capetian conquest of Normandy in 1204, William and his successors were largely absentee rulers. |
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| Markets are not developed overnight and basic to the success of any marketing program is fosterage of a land use program that assures a permanent agriculture. |
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| In one respect, as I hinted above, it is only too good, so sure of success, I mean, that you are no longer secure of any respect to your property in our freebooting America. |
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| For beginners in the natural dieting world, I don't generally recommend feeding your ferret openly where she free roams, although many people do it with great success. |
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| The success of the Russian army on the land forced Sweden to sign peace treaties with Russia in 1809 and with France in 1810 and to join the blockade against Britain. |
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| Yet the success of Trajan, however transient, was rapid and specious. The degenerate Parthians, broken by intestine discord, fled before his arms. |
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| Despite initially causing considerable panic, the expedition had little success, and Henry found himself unable to pay his forces and therefore unable to return to Normandy. |
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| Since not all bananaquits nest near wasp nests, Wunderle and Pollock were able to compare the nesting success of pairs nesting near or away from polybiine colonies. |
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| From these tolls they would try, with varying degrees of success, to maintain the canal, pay back initial loans and pay dividends to their shareholders. |
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