And he succeeded in working with a legislature where 87% of the members represent the other party.
Aalto's mission was to build a house as expressive of nature as the one in Bear Run, Pennsylvania, and he succeeded.
And apparently he succeeded in his efforts, earning two hundred dollars an ounce or more.
He thought the task of any intellectual was to make ideas as interesting as possible, and in this he succeeded to a fault.
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He was a gambler whose decisions were put down to intuition and feel, and when these succeeded he was feted.
At the age of 23 years and 301 days, he succeeded Fernando Alonso, who was 122 days older when he won the title in 2005, as the sport's youngest champion.
At great cost, emotionally and physically, he ultimately succeeded.
Mr Powell won agreement from the Turks to ship food, fuel and humanitarian aid across their border into northern Iraq, and he seems to have succeeded in restraining the Turks from invading Iraq themselves.
Now, it is true that Roberts promised at the beginning of this term to seek unanimity and consensus and narrow opinions, and he's not succeeded in that goal, partly because his colleagues don't seem to buy into that vision.
On a later trip, U.S. Border Patrol Agents caught and returned him to Mexico but he later succeeded in entering the United States and benefitted from the aftermath of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, signed by President Ronald Reagan, which gave legal status to many undocumented immigrants.
He had tried to advance in this way, but had not succeeded, and so he had retreated into the muteness they expected, and perhaps preferred.
Growing up in his family's Boulder-based greeting card and publishing business, Blue Mountain Arts, he succeeded his grandmother as sales manager in 1996 and helped start bluemountainarts.com, an online greeting card Web site.
Mr. Bloomberg has made lowering crime a signature issue, and by many measures, he has succeeded.
If you go by the smiles and back-slapping that ended Franco-German consultations in Potsdam on November 30th and December 1st, he may have succeeded.
He has succeeded, and Beijing has largely kept its distance.
While I've been skeptical about most of Mr. Kushner's plays, I'm delighted that he and his famous collaborator have succeeded in persuading large numbers of Americans to sit still and listen to a movie.
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From Disney, he says, everything he needed to know about how to dream (where Disney succeeded) and how to treat his employees (where he failed).
He said he had previously "tried and succeeded to make one with my eyes closed".
If Surnow wanted to burn through any remaining aura of glamour and goldenness that surrounds the Kennedys, he succeeded.
In his previous spell in charge he succeeded Rijkaard in 2000 and took the national team to 12 wins from 14 games.
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"I do not want to say that Pope Benedict XVI did not understand this, but for him this generation is remote and it is probably better if he is succeeded by someone from the younger generation, " he said.
To the extent that he has succeeded, the markets and economy have been better-off for stocks achieving their true price.
The trend was set by centrist William Weld after he succeeded Michael Dukakis in 1990 and extended by Paul Cellucci.
He succeeded, using local stone and exotic imported woods such as New Guinea rosewood and hoop pine and taking advantage of natural elements.
Through his various professional contacts, he has succeeded in creating links and building bridges among specialists in Arab culture, both in the Arab world and beyond.
And, on the challenge of triumphalism, he succeeded - mostly.
Although Mr. Sarkozy says he has succeeded in avoiding the pitfalls of Greece, Ireland and Portugal, which had to seek international help, he has failed to deliver on his electoral promises: Unemployment is at a 13-year high of nearly 10% and public debt is nearly 90% of the country's annual output, up from 64% in 2007.
His support team desperately fought to pull off the trailing hose but by the time they had succeeded he was in 18th spot and dead last.
He was soon withdrawn by Smith and South Africa succeeded in stifling the scoring before Jaffer, after a spell of five maiden overs, fell to Ntini for 26 with the total on 61 as de Villiers claimed another slip catch.
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