In his early work on von Neumann algebras in the 1970s, he succeeded in obtaining the almost complete classification of injective factors.

By October 1993, Armenian forces succeeded in occupying almost all of former NKAO, Lachin and large areas in southwestern Azerbaijan.

First performed by the Ballets Russes in 1917, it succeeded in creating a scandal but in a different way than Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps had done almost five years earlier.

Agnieszka Weinar ( 2010 ) notes the widening use of the term, arguing that recently, " a growing body of literature succeeded in reformulating the definition, framing diaspora as almost any population on the move and no longer referring to the specific context of their existence ".

This friendship eventually manifested in first the Peace of Lodi and then the Italian League, a multi-polar defensive alliance of Italian states that succeeded in stabilising almost all of Italy for its duration.

There was almost a war with Parthia around 121, but the threat was averted when Hadrian succeeded in negotiating a peace.

On 12 November 1985, former Army Commanding General Thomas Quiwonkpa invaded Liberia by way of neighboring Sierra Leone and almost succeeded in toppling the government of Samuel Doe.

Mahfouz was given police protection, but in 1994 Islamic extremists almost succeeded in assassinating the 82-year-old novelist by stabbing him in the neck outside his Cairo home.

Ruling from 1814 until his death in 1840, Francia succeeded almost single-handedly in building a strong, prosperous, secure, and independent nation at a time when Paraguay's continued existence as a distinct country seemed unlikely.

In 1106, an Egyptian campaign thrust into southern Judea and almost succeeded the following year in wresting Hebron back from the crusaders under Baldwin I of Jerusalem, who personally led the counter-charge to beat the Muslim forces off.

Louis I, who became in time count of Provence and king of Naples, died in 1384, and was succeeded by his son Louis II, who devoted most of his energies to his kingdom of Naples, and left the administration of Anjou almost entirely in the hands of his wife, Yolande of Aragon.

Grandson Robert R. McCormick succeeded his brother at the Tribune, where he was publisher for almost 50 years.

A well-known instance occurred in 1790, when Prince Anton Esterházy succeeded his father and dismissed almost all of the latter's extensive musical establishment.

At one point, Sam Houston, president of the newly created Republic of Texas, almost succeeded in reaching a peace treaty with the Comanche.

It almost succeeded, had it not been for Brown's delay, and hundreds of slaves left their plantations to join Brown's force-and others left their plantations to join Brown in an escape to the mountains.

Ironically, his newly discovered poems sparked a renewed interest in Pindar's work, with whom he was compared so unfavourably that " the students of Pindaric poetry almost succeeded in burying Bacchylides all over again.

The Carbonari condemned Napoleon III — who, as a young man, had fought on the side of the Carbonari — to death for failing to unite Italy, and the group almost succeeded in assassinating him in 1858.

In the 1770s the abbey came close to demolition ; the expense of repairs meant a scheme to destroy the abbey and erect a smaller church almost succeeded.

He then began defeating the scattered Arab forces and taking towns in the west and south of the island, and almost succeeded in driving the Arabs from the island.

After the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Germany launched and almost succeeded in a final offensive, however the new tactics of autonomy revealed a weakness in terms of overall coordination and direction.

Talbot's negative / positive process eventually succeeded as the basis for almost all 19th and 20th century photography.

In July 1864 Charles ( 1823 – 1891, reigned 1864 – 1891 ) succeeded his father William I as king and had almost at once to face considerable difficulties.

He was received with more than princely pomp, and all but succeeded in his design, thanks to his extraordinary adroitness and the command of an almost unlimited bribing-fund.

Furthermore, scholars pointed out that, if Oleg succeeded Rurik in 879 ( as the East Slavic chronicles assert ), he could hardly have been active almost 70 years later, if his was not a case of longevity otherwise unheard of in medieval annals.

The inference has been too widely accepted that because the Communists have succeeded in building barricades across Berlin the free world must acquiesce in dismemberment of that living city.

" Jackson thought the Bank of the United States hurt ordinary citizens by exercising too much control over credit and economic opportunity, and he succeeded in shutting it down.

Building an igloo large enough for a camera to enter resulted in the dome collapsing, and when they finally succeeded in making the igloo it was too dark for photography.

When Paris succeeded in getting her to open up, she admitted that she's afraid her husband will find living with two Klingons too difficult and will leave her the way her father did.

Eskender was succeeded by Emperor Na ' od who tried to defend the Christians from General Mahfuz but he too was also killed in battle by the Adalite army in Ifat.

Zeno succeeded in bribing Armatus too, promising to confirm his rank of magister militum praesentalis for life and promoting his son ( also called Basiliscus ) to the rank of Caesar ; Armatus ' army did not intercept Zeno's troops marching on Constantinople, and the lack of Theodoric Strabo and his army decided the fate of Basiliscus, who fled with his family in the church of Hagia Sophia.

The accusations were later proved to be groundless but it was too late to save Jones ' career as Southampton manager and he was succeeded by ex-England team manager Glenn Hoddle.

Ran on the West End starring Ralph Richardson and Celia Johnson ( succeeded by Wendy Hiller ) to success but mixed reviews-many critics felt it too closely resembled Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman-and had a brief but unsuccessful run on Broadway starring Hiller and Eric Portman.

His original plan to study in Italy, too, never succeeded.

The Dominicans, however, found this punishment too mild and, through Pope Clement IV, they seem to have succeeded in turning the two years ' exile into perpetual banishment.

He succeeded in breaking up and making flexible the stiff forms and stiffer language of the 15th century, and at times could be almost too vernacular and pedestrian.

He succeeded in this goal only too well for a full year.

The first president was Josias Philip Hoffman, but he was accused of being too complaisant towards Moshesh and resigned, being succeeded in 1855 by Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff, one of the voortrekkers, who had previously taken an active part in the affairs of Natal.

He had again been disappointed of the treasurership when Danby succeeded Clifford ; Charles having declared " that he had too much kindness for him to let him have it for he was not fit for the office.

When Gongsun died, his younger brother Gongsun Gong succeeded him because his children were still too young.

Huxley said that it died " of too much love "; Tennyson, " because after ten years of strenuous effort no one had succeeded in even defining metaphysics.

In 1174 Amalric died and was succeeded by his son Baldwin IV, who was still too young to rule on his own and furthermore was suffering from leprosy.

Originally, the Tula artists succeeded in forming their own company with an Aboriginal Name, Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, however a time of disillusionment followed as artists were criticised by their peers for having revealed too much of their sacred heritage.

An attempt was also made using a chair with modern rockets attached ; however, the uncontrollable craft proved that there were far too many complications for such a thing to have succeeded.

A small but politically effective group of objectors led by David Brower of the Sierra Club succeeded in defeating the Bureau's bid, citing Echo Park's natural and scenic qualities as too valuable to submerge.

Huntington succeeded in his California business, too, and it was here that he teamed up with Mark Hopkins selling miners ' supplies and other hardware.

Crown Prince Chi succeeded him ( as Emperor Huai ) and would try to restrengthen the empire, but it was too late for Jin by that point.

One of the old-timers I met was a fine man named Charlie Cutler, who knew Gotch very well and succeeded him as world champion …; according to Cutler, Gotch would gouge, pull hair and even break a bone to get an advantage in a contest, and he was unusually careful to have the referee in his pocket, too, in case all else failed .”

He succeeded James Bradley to become the fourth Astronomer Royal in 1762, but held the post for too short a period to make a significant impact.