Eldest of the seven, Benjamin Franklin, a New Englander transplanted to Philadelphia, wrote the most dazzling success story in our history.

To have any success in this effort, we must ourselves view it as an enterprise stretching over a considerable number of years, and we must encourage the recipients of our aid to view it in the same fashion.

The day is now appropriately set aside to honor the American men and women who have contributed to the success of our merchant marine fleet in peace and war.

Yet our economy clings inexorably to recognition of managerial status as the gage of success.

The word `` binomial '' means `` of two names '' or `` of two terms '', and both usages apply in our work: the first to the names of the two outcomes of a binomial trial, and the second to the terms P and Af that represent the probabilities of `` success '' and `` failure ''.

Until we translate this gospel into a language that enlightened men today can understand, we are depriving ourselves of the very resources on which the continued success of our witness most certainly depends.

This mentality is difficult to understand in our modern age but the ancients took great stock in success as a sign of favoritism by the gods.

" This ," wrote Marlborough wearily, " I take to be owing to our late success.

He refers to British director Christopher Nolan ’ s The Dark Knight and Inception as British rather than as American films, and yet " when a movie which looks quintessentially ‘ British ’, such as The King's Speech, achieves equivalent success, everyone suddenly starts writing articles about the state of our national cinema as if it somehow exists in isolation.

Quantum mechanics had enormous success in explaining many of the features of our world.

Finally, Positive Risk Management recognizes that risk taking is essential to all enterprise, creativity, heroism, education, scientific advance – in fact to any activity and all the initiatives that have contributed to our evolutionary success and civilization.

David Wirtschafter, the president of the William Morris Agency ( which represented Gellar ), subsequently told The New Yorker that the success of The Grudge " takes our client Sarah Michelle Gellar, who now is nothing at all, and … makes her a star, potentially.

And the success of those graphic novels made our ideas more acceptable.

In 1969, critic Andrew Sarris commented that the success of the film had been largely due to " the inspired casting " of Leigh, and in 1998 wrote that " she lives in our minds and memories as a dynamic force rather than as a static presence.

Realists often point to the success of recent scientific theories as evidence for the truth ( or near truth ) of our current theories.

Also, the authors of the study acknowledge that a large number of sexual partners may not lead to greater reproductive success, specifically noting there is an " absence of evidence relating the number of sexual partners and actual reproductive success, either in the present or in our evolutionary past.

Lucretia Mott stood to offer another resolution: " Resolved, That the speedy success of our cause depends upon the zealous and untiring efforts of both men and women, for the overthrow of the monopoly of the pulpit, and for the securing to woman an equal participation with men in the various trades, professions and commerce.

12 to General Sir H. Rawlinson, 16 June 1916 Stating the Objectives ') and that preparations should be made for an advance of to Bapaume should German resistance crumble, " If the first attack goes well every effort must be made to develop the success to the utmost by firstly opening a way for our cavalry and then as quickly as possible pushing the cavalry through to seize Bapaume ...." ( Note O. A. D.

Actually she made things very fine for both of us and she deserves most of the credit for our success.

In his excited response dated October 26, 1937, Disney wrote that he felt " all steamed up over the idea of Stokowski working with us ... The union of Stokowski and his music, together with the best of our medium, would be the means of a success and should lead to a new style of motion picture presentation.

If not quite a daughter of the soil, she was a granddaughter of it, and her concern for our planet led her to become an environmentalist, indeed the first female environmentalist to achieve such resounding political success.

Your continued strong support is vital to the success of our mission ...

Beauregard replied in a passive – aggressive manner, " I am willing to do anything for our success, but cannot leave my Department without orders of War Department.

And I select this sentence as its pertinent summation: `` in essence the drama of his ( Eisenhower's ) Presidency can be described as the ordeal of a nation turned conservative and struggling -- thus far with but limited and precarious success -- to give effective voice and force to that conservatism ''.

While the phonemes can be very easily stated, no one is likely to be satisfied with the statement until phonemic occurrences can be related in some way to morphemic units, i.e. until the morphophonemics is worked out, or at least far enough that it seems reasonable to expect success.

The film garnered critical and commercial success, becoming Day's biggest hit so far.

Realizing the inherent problems with the model of knowledge he had created, Diderot's view of his own success in writing the Encyclopédie were far from ecstatic.

Examples exist of teacher and student success stories where learning has transcended the classroom and has reached far out into society.

This success was largely driven by the network of underground fanzines, the most important and far reaching of which were Extraordinary Sensations, produced by future radio DJ Eddie Piller, and Shadows & Reflections, published by future national magazine editor Chris Hunt.

Several other U. S. oil companies also are engaged in offshore exploration, but so far with little success.

Adams was elected a U. S. Representative from Massachusetts after leaving office, the only president ever to be so, serving for the last 17 years of his life with far greater success than he had achieved in the presidency.

Other common ad-hoc algorithms try to emulate manual shuffling with poor success: the permutations they produce are usually far from random and the running times are poor.

Since 1983 ( on the initiative of Culture Minister Melina Mercouri ), the Greek government has been committed to the return of the sculptures to Greece, so far with no success.

Despite early success, they pursued the Muslims far enough to become scattered and Saladin took advantage by rallying his troops and charged at the Crusaders.

The album opened to sales of 185, 000 and has since been certified platinum in the U. S. The first single " Right Here " has been the biggest success from the album thus far, garnering much mainstream radio play and peaking at number 1 on the mainstream rock chart.

Small Change, which was accompanied by the double A-side single " Step Right Up "/" The Piano Has Been Drinking ", was a critical and commercial success and far outsold any of Waits's previous albums.

The commercialization of general-purpose wearable computers, as led by companies such as Xybernaut, CDI and ViA Inc, has thus far met with limited success.

Phillip Noyce also attempted to capitalize, with far less success, on Hauer's spiritual qualities in the martial arts action adventure Blind Fury ( 1989 ).

However, probably the key to Patton's success compared to all of the other U. S. and British forces, which had similar advantages, was his intensive use of close air support ; the Third Army had by far more G-2 officers at headquarters specifically designated to coordinate air strikes than any other army.

Paragraph 3. 25 of the Final Report states " This suggests that it is far more often the nature of the teaching than the nature of the child which determines success or failure in learning the ‘ basic ’ skills of reading and writing.

The female leads in those films ( Olivia Hussey and Brooke Shields ) have attained far greater success in the industry.

The LA30 was followed in 1974 by the LA36, which achieved far greater commercial success, becoming for a time the standard dot matrix computer terminal.

But the project was a success — far more than the required 6 million clips were collected.

The 2002 general election proved a great success for the LPF, yielding 17 % of the votes and 26 seats in the House of Representatives — by far a record number of seats in the Netherlands for a new party — to become the second largest party.

He would also work with composer Louis Hirsch during this time, and would score his biggest success so far in 1917 with Going Up.

The success of the far right in Austria has not been the result of economic crisis or social conflict, but primarily of political factors, including the failure of denazification after World War II.

" In a 1930s interview Constance Bennett replied to questions about her own demands, with the comment that Colbert's idiosyncrasies were far more excessive, but Bennett acknowledged that it was an integral part of Colbert's success.