After two previous failures, voters in the city passed a ballot measure in 2000 authorizing a bond measure for construction of a new library to replace the city's Carnegie library, damaged during the Loma Prieta earthquake.

After a number of notable successes and some early failures in the 1920s, the League ultimately proved incapable of preventing aggression by the Axis powers in the 1930s.

* 2008 – After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997.

After numerous failures in securing legislative sovereignty in the early 19th century many Poles simply gave up trying to attain a degree of independence from their foreign master-states.

After test failures with the first three flight tests because of guidance and sensor problems, the fourth and final test on June 10, 1984 was successful, intercepting the Minuteman RV with a closing speed of about 6. 1 km / s at an altitude of more than 160 km.

After repeated failures in Allied bombing attempts to hit the factory, a team of French Resistance fighters and SOE agents distracted the German guards with a game of soccer while part of their team entered the plant and destroyed machinery.

After the extraordinary successes of the 1940s and 50s, the 1960s and 70s brought personal turmoil and theatrical failures.

After these failures, Clotilde appeared to dedicate herself to a saintly life.

After the failures of the Pamela sequels, Richardson began to compose a new novel.

After these failures the English parliament forced Charles to make peace.

After some costly failures the Normans managed to construct a pontoon to reach the Isle of Ely, defeated the rebels at the bridgehead and stormed the island, marking the effective end of English resistance.

After these failures of the bullpup design to achieve widespread service, the concept continued to be explored ( for example: a second Korobov bullpup, the TKB-022 ).

After his failures in the Great Leap Forward, Mao decided to give up the State presidency in 1959.

After a number of failures and difficulties with money, Robinson suggested to Gordy to start his own label, which Gordy agreed.

After at least six failures, he was admitted in 1609.

After several failures, Caecilius gained a high reputation.

After two failures, Zond 3 was sent on a test mission, photographing the far side of the Moon ( only the second spacecraft to do so ) and continuing out to the orbit of Mars in order to test telemetry and spacecraft systems.

After experimentation both machines proved to be failures.

After two narrow failures to qualify for the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000, McCarthy took the nation to the 2002 World Cup held in Korea and Japan.

After repeated failures, he successfully gained appointment to the judiciary as a Justice of the Court of King's Bench on 16 February 1770, leaving to replace Edward Clive as a Justice of the Common Pleas on 25 June.

After the failures at Neuve Chapelle and Aubers Ridge, French briefed the press correspondent Repington in an attempt to pin the blame for the shell shortage onto Kitchener.

After the financial failures of both plays they ended their relationship.

After mechanical failures robbed him of the chance to perform, Berger came on strongly in the latter half of 1987, winning the final two rounds of the season.

After test failures with the first three flight tests, the fourth and final test on 10 June 1984 was successful, intercepting the Minuteman RV with a closing speed of about 6. 1 km / s at an altitude of more than 160 km.

After a few tortuous moments of wondering who `` he '' is, the camera pans across the room to the plaster statue, and we realize that Neitzbohr is trying to redeem himself in the eyes of a mute piece of sculpture.

After trying it out in training camp, Brown used the helmet to call in plays during a September 15 pre-season game against the Lions with Ratterman behind center.

After a long duel with Nobita trying to win at all costs so that Doraemon can leave without worries, Gian gave up ( which gave Nobita the win ) because no matter what, Nobita refuses to stay down.

After the dancer dropped one of her fans while trying to chase away a fly, Kaye was hired to be in charge of the fans so they were always held in front of her.

After a notable failure in trying to organize a Colorado minor baseball league, Runyon moved to New York City in 1910.

In a December 5, 2007 article on Mutato Muzika, LA Weekly reported that " After touring sporadically over the past decade but not releasing any new material, Devo are spending December at Mutato trying to create an album ’ s worth of new material and contemplating a method of dispersal in the post-record-company world.

After trying various jobs, Bogart began acting in 1921 and became a regular in Broadway productions in the 1920s and 1930s.

After the September 11 attacks in 2001, Falwell said on Pat Robertson's The 700 Club, " I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America.

After years of legal wrangling these were returned to her, but the French government had reportedly damaged some of the film stock whilst trying to develop and edit it and a few key scenes were missing ( although Riefenstahl was surprised to find the original negatives for Olympia in the same shipment ).

After landing in Cologne, the hijackers demanded the release of Ağca, who at the time was serving a life sentence in Italy for trying to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981.

After trying unsuccessfully to attempt suicide, Heidi go on a shooting spree and kills all the characters of the movie except Sydney, Sebastian, Arthur, Seymour, Robert and Lucile.

After many years of trying to land a European missionary on Niue, a Niuean named Nukai Peniamina was taken to Samoa and trained as a Pastor at the Malua Theological College.

reads: After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, " Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were trying to take the child's life are dead.

After leaving the army, he spent a brief stint as a public school teacher before trying his hand at becoming a full-time writer.

After Martok refused, Worf decided to challenge Gowron himself, citing his faulty battle planning, his dishonorable conduct in trying to discredit Martok, and poor strategies at the later stages of the Dominion War.

After three years of working through the exercises and trying her own proofs for some of the theorems, she wrote, again under the pseudonym of M. LeBlanc, to the author himself, who was one year younger than she.

After calling their final timeout with 14 second left, Washington made one last attempt to score a touchdown before trying a field goal.

After rehearsing and writing songs over the summer, they recorded their first demo in late August, making 100 cassettes, with artwork by Squire, and set about trying to get gigs.

After decades of sailors trying to reach India with thousands of lives and dozens of vessels lost in shipwrecks and attacks, Gama landed in Calicut on the 20 May 1498.

After years of trying to reunite the moderate and radical factions, he gave up and focused on the Home Rule League, which sought self-rule.

After the Canadian pianist Louis Lortie was removed from the Steinway Artist roster in 2003, he complained in a newspaper article that Steinway is trying to establish a monopoly on the concert world by becoming " the Microsoft of pianos ".

After the war Frederick kept the peace without giving up his attempt of trying to expand his prestige as a naval ruler.

After two colonists are killed trying to surrender, and the power to the building is cut, the colonists decide they have no choice but to fight back.

After the Second Sino-Japanese War and during the Chinese Civil War, Chiang Ching-kuo briefly served as a liaison administrator in Shanghai, trying to eradicate the corruption and hyperinflation that plagued the city.