The strategy worked perfectly.

Johnston could only keep up his defense by raids and other measures to make it appear he had larger forces than he did, a strategy that worked for several months.

" The strategy worked in the Rockies ' favor ; Eaton walked with the bases loaded, scoring Dexter Fowler to cut the Giants ' lead to 4 – 2.

" The strategy worked and the VIC-20 became the first computer to ship more than one million units.

That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations ( 1933 ), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm ( 1935 ), won back the Saar ( 1935 ), remilitarized the Rhineland ( 1936 ), formed an alliance (" axis ") with Mussolini's Italy ( 1936 ), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), seized Austria ( 1938 ), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French appeasement of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland in September 1939.

* Mary Beth " Tambi " Baker-A brutal enforcer who worked for Darcy Parker alongside her twin sister Sara Beth " Bambi ", Tambi is skilled in not only the deadly arts, but in business and strategy.

Between 1746 and 1748 Pitt worked closely with Newcastle in formulating British military and diplomatic strategy.

Seeing that their strategy had actually worked, the Meccans cavalry forces went around the hill and re-appeared behind the pursuing archers.

While this strategy of bypassing the event by not campaigning there had worked for Anderson in some southern primaries, as a frontrunner, he no longer could pick and chose his campaigns.

The strategy worked and Jones returned to the top of the charts in the United Kingdom and began hitting the Top 40 again in the United States.

Her strategy worked, and MGM cast her in the film where she first made an impression on audiences, Edmund Goulding's Sally, Irene and Mary ( 1925 ).

This strategy worked, and, by the turn of the 20th century, the majority of Champagne drinkers were middle class.

Between 1984 and 1987, Mateschitz worked with TCBG Pharmaceutical ( a Blendax licensee ) to adapt a flavor and marketing strategy for the European market.

Mittal's investment is thought to be primarily motivated by his son-in-law's interests and that Mittal himself would remain a silent investor while Briatore, Ecclestone and Bhatia worked together to implement the strategy of slowly building the club up ahead of a push for promotion to the Premier League in 2009.

Peter D. Feaver, who worked on the Bush national security strategy as a staff member on the National Security Council, said he has counted as many as seven distinct Bush doctrines.

He points to factionalism as a historical weak point in the Church, and points to the recent example of the Borgia family as a better strategy which almost worked.

This style of kingship was very different from his predecessor's — David tried to dominate his nobles whereas Robert's strategy was to delegate authority to his powerful sons and earls and this generally worked for the first decade of his reign.

The strategy worked, and Luciano's reputation was saved.

Muir's strategy worked, however.

As a unifying figure for the nation, in 2010 King Juan Carlos worked towards " bridging the gap " between Spain ’ s rival polarized political parties to develop a unified strategy in response to the country ’ s on-going late-2000s economic crisis.

The Union's Organising Committee worked hard, and successfully implemented its marketing strategy to get the local population involved through " Friday Night is Party Night " and secured CSFB as sponsors " on a spur-of-the-moment ", the event was a comparatively huge success.

This strategy worked remarkably well until it was derailed by the Great Depression after Stresemann's death.

This strategy worked, although the close quarters likely contributed to the plague that killed many Athenians in 429.

This was the basic Allied strategy, and it worked.

" DuPont then worked extensively to generate demand for its product, implementing a marketing strategy that included publishing its own technical journal, which extensively publicized neoprene's uses as well as advertising other companies ' neoprene-based products.

Their strategy was sound enough and, he reasoned, had been defeated only by Philip Spencer's unwillingness to sanction an idea he had not originated.

Through cunning strategy, Lysander totally defeated the Athenian fleet, in 405 BC, at the battle of Aegospotami, destroying 168 ships and capturing some three or four thousand Athenian sailors.

Hannibal defeated the Roman legions in several major engagements, including the Battle of the Trebia, the Battle of Lake Trasimene and most famously at the Battle of Cannae, but his long-term strategy failed.

The El-Buur episode drastically changed the strategy of Italy as it revived memories of the Adwa fiasco when Italy had been defeated by Abyssinia.

In southern Italy, the Austrians, choosing a strategy of defending a large number of fortresses, were soundly defeated.

The German Fourth Army had defeated the British advance to the objectives of 31 July during August but the high casualties and sickness caused by the ground conditions, endless bombardments and air attacks intensified the manpower shortage that the German defensive strategy for 1917 was intended to alleviate.

Darius attempted to employ the same strategy, but the Spartans were defeated at Megalopolis.

The lead programmer Schaeffer looked back into the database and discovered that Tinsley picked the only strategy that could have defeated Chinook from that point.

The strategy was a success ; the Wei army hastily moved south to protect its capital, was caught on the road and decisively defeated at the Battle of Guiling.

... first he raised the money required to blunt French hegemony in Europe and thus preserved the British constitution and the protestant monarchy ; second he was instrumental in planning the military and diplomatic strategy that ultimately defeated Louis XIV ; third, as lord high treasurer, he worked to make the Treasury more efficient and attempted to weed out corruption — the Treasury as he left it served England well for the remainder of the eighteenth century ; fourth he was instrumental in negotiating and passing the Act of Union with Scotland which created the united kingdom of Great Britain ; and fifth he negotiated the creation of a unified East India Company, which would be instrumental in establishing British rule in India.

The original, comprehensive METRO regional plan was defeated in a vote by suburbanites who seemed to view the problem not as one of pollution, transit, sprawl, or lack of planning: in what some Seattleites referred to as the " Pave the Lake " strategy, they just wanted more bridges across Lake Washington.

Bernardo O ' Higgins did not acknowledge Carrera and fought against the Carrerian army at the Battle of Tres Acequias ( Carrera's youngest brother, Luis Carrera, defeated O ' Higgins using a cunning defensive strategy ).

The Coloradans, led by General Edward Canby and John M. Chivington, defeated Sibley's force at the Battle of Glorieta Pass, thwarting the Confederate strategy.

The strategy has never on its own defeated an insurgent movement, but it can pressure insurgent groups into political negotiations.

In terms of overall strategy, it is clear that both sides had resolved on battle ; for the allies, it represented the best chance of stopping Antigonid expansion, rather than allowing themselves to be defeated piecemeal.

Through his able strategy and daring he recaptured Chioggia, defeated the Genoese and threatened Genoa itself until that republic agreed to peace terms.

If this strategy is deprecated, he is easily defeated as he does not have powerful cards.

The Red Army regained its military power, survived in Yan ' an and ultimately defeated the KMT with using a guerrilla strategy, and later through conventional warfare as it gained mass peasant support.

As a result of Tydings ' unpopularity and Beall's campaign strategy, Tydings was defeated 51 % to 48 %.

Wu Peifu's military strategy was thrown into confusion by this catastrophe in his rear, and he was defeated by Zhang's forces near Tianjin.

After commander Yi Sun Shin's fleet decisively defeated Japanese in the Battle of Hansando on July 8, the Japanese had to change their war strategy.

The valley played a significant role in the strategy of Confederate Major General Thomas " Stonewall " Jackson during his Valley Campaign of 1862 in which he defeated three numerically superior Union armies.

The strategy was so successful that Japanese war czar Tojo before his death told General MacArthur that it was one of the three principal factors that defeated Japan.