Thus he succeeded.

He succeeded in the face of great danger.

And like it or not, he succeeded!

Brown decisively changed that reputation.

When Khrushchev came back, he was smiling Sputnik s launch was successful.

Yes, global growth has raised billions of people out of poverty.

The implications are clear a show of power wins the day.

Indeed, investment bankers transformed stock markets into a surreal circus.

The Arab Spring has toppled some regimes, though not others.

This incremental approach has worked well in the past indeed, today s European Union resulted from it.

President Bush mostly succeeded in his crusade Jubilee 2000succeeded mostly in getting empty promises.

Such a project has worked before in bringing Europe together it can do so again.

The Belfast peace agreement of 1998 has secured more than 10 years of peace.

By reversing course on the WTO, Putin has again shown himself to be Russia s master.

Some people and even a few politicians are drawing the right conclusions from this.

The Republicans under Bush have turned huge surpluses into terrifyingly large deficits.

The EU has created a zone of peace where once there was relentless war.

On a global scale, the renewable energy sector created 2.3 million jobs in the past few years.

Those who criticize the song from a musical perspective are totally right. But, they need to see what is beyond the piece the work has succeeded in transcribing part of what Tunisians feel, whether they come from poor districts or not and whether they are living the everyday life described in the song or not...

The dollar came under pressure early in the current financial crisis, but staged a strong recovery as the crisis worsened.

Saakashvili, an immensely talented 41 year old, saved his country from utter collapse in 2003.

Sarkozy imposed himself on the Gaullist movement against the will of President Jacques Chirac indeed, he snatched the presidency of the UMP despite Chirac s active opposition.

Second, the Security Council now looks like a paper tiger because its authority was successfully challenged by a worn out regime.

All four North African rulers have, to greater or lesser degrees, made themselves the center of highly opaque power structures.

Sami succeeded.

Protests have already toppled governments in Tunisia and Egypt, leaving other Arab countries faced with widespread discontent.

The ECB has done all it can for growth by giving Europe a prolonged period of monetary stability at record low interest rates.

Khamenei, the supreme leader, has succeeded in politicizing the Shiite clerical establishment, primarily by controlling the financial resources of the religious authorities and Shiite institutions in Iran and the region.

Saleh has regularly employed the danger of Al Qaeda to obtain additional financial and security support from both the West and Saudi Arabia.

I thought it would kind of be interesting to think back to that time when Richard got the whole thing started. Thank you very much, Richard it's been a big, enjoyable part of my life, coming here.

Gradualism and profitability, and eventually US Brady bonds, worked in the Latin American debt crisis in the 1980 s. But a difficult economy will drive down the value of toxic assets and make more assets toxic.

This strong willed monarch, while ruling the Russian empire autocratically, managed to bring stability and prosperity, allowing capitalism to take root.

And it works.

China s corporate sector has financed much of its investment out of retained earnings without having to raise capital from the household sector.

These bloggers, activists, and techies have managed to use freely available tools and online services to internationally embarrass the Egyptian government and pressure it into action against those abuses.

Some things worked, some things didn't.

In each case, Patel succeeded.

The Global Forum has done its job by generating and fostering ideas that can make migration benefit the development of countries of origin and destination.

In his effort to restore seemingly irreparably damaged relations with the West, Gaddafi has played the oil and gas cards that he holds extremely well.

Through his visit to Jerusalem, Sadat shook away Israel s siege mentality and gave psychological living space to an otherwise claustrophobic nation in the midst of a hostile Arab world.

We have from the sublime to the ridiculous, but they worked.

Sami probably did it.

He has turned the Center into a force.

Those who invested and reinvested their money in America s stock market over the past decade have nearly doubled it, even after taking account of inflation.

He would certainly be happy to delay the vote and, if it is held, to dispute its legitimacy.