As of 2012, no-one has matched or exceeded 974 runs or three double centuries in one Test series ; the record of 974 runs exceeds the second-best performance by 69 runs and was achieved in two fewer innings.

A well-publicized entrant which has achieved success only recently is the built liquid detergent, with which the major problem today is incorporation of builder and active into a small volume using a sufficiently high builder/active ratio.

He had achieved considerable financial success in his tailoring business, which he sold in order to concentrate on politics.

" for the charity War Child who achieved solo success with " Leipe mocro flavour ".

As Li ' l Abner reached its peak years, and following the success of the Shmoos and other high moments in his work, Al Capp achieved a public profile that is still unparalleled in his profession, and arguably exceeded the fame of his strip.

The group achieved great success globally and scored a chain of # 1 hits.

Bronski Beat were a popular British synthpop trio who achieved success in the mid 1980s, particularly with the 1984 chart hit " Smalltown Boy ".

As a newcomer, she achieved a surprising measure of success, working for HBO and Stacey Keach Productions.

By local success at the Schwerpunkt, a small force achieved a breakthrough and gained advantages by fighting in the enemy's rear.

Launched in poor weather against a thinly held Allied sector, it achieved surprise and initial success as Allied air power was stymied by cloud cover.

The series has achieved enormous success, selling nearly 50 million units.

In England in the late 1940s, Ealing Studios achieved popular success as well as critical acclaim with a series of films known collectively as the " Ealing comedies ", from 1947 to 1957.

However, with the exception of the Grammy Award-winning " Nightshift " (# 3 in the U. S., a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson ; in 2010 a new version was recorded dedicated to Michael Jackson ), the band never achieved the same level of success it had enjoyed with Richie.

The demi-lancers and the heavily armored sword-and-pistol reiters were among the types of cavalry whose heyday was in the 16th and 17th centuries, as for the Polish winged hussars, a heavy cavalry force that achieved great success against Swedes, Russians, and Turks.

The album did not fare as well as their debut in the US, only reaching number 40, but it achieved Australasian success, reaching number one in Australia and number two in New Zealand.

In 1975, Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the number-one single " Fame " and the hit album Young Americans, which the singer characterised as " plastic soul ".

Young Americans was a commercial success in both the US and the UK, and a re-issue of the 1969 single " Space Oddity " became Bowie's first number one hit in the UK a few months after " Fame " achieved the same in the US.

Featuring characters from a short story written by Bowie, the album achieved US and UK chart success, and yielded three top 40 UK singles.

: While advocates of the deprogramming position have claimed high rates of success, studies show that natural attrition rates actually are higher than the success rate achieved through deprogramming.

Afghan forces achieved success in the initial days of the war, taking the British and Indians by surprise in two main thrusts as the Afghan regular army was joined by large numbers of Pashtun tribesmen from both sides of the border.

Many of Coppola's ventures in the 1980s and 1990s were critically lauded, but he has never quite achieved the same success as in the 1970s.

Having achieved some of its goals, among them the establishment of state funding for the film industry and renewed international recognition for German films, the New German Cinema had begun to show signs of fatigue by the 1980s, even though many of its proponents continued to enjoy individual success.

Each year they honor one notable actor, actress, or filmmaker with the " Kevin Norwood Bacon Award for Achievement in Cinema ", acknowledging the success the recipient has achieved in being so closely connected to Kevin Bacon.

New directors who appeared in the 80s include actor Jūzō Itami, who directed his first film, The Funeral, in 1984, and achieved critical and box office success with Tampopo in 1985.

Many British actors have achieved international fame and critical success, including Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Michael Caine, Charlie Chaplin, Sean Connery, Vivien Leigh, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Peter Sellers and Kate Winslet.

Nancy Sinatra began her career as a singer and actress in the early 1960s, but initially achieved success only in Europe and Japan.

Nichiren thought this could be achieved in Japan by withdrawing lay support so that the deviant monks would be forced to change their ways or revert to laymen to prevent starving.

Although some talks towards normalization of relations with Japan took place, they achieved little.

The Soul series of weapon-based fighting games also achieved considerable critical success, beginning with 1997's Soul Edge ( known as Soul Blade outside of Japan ) to Soulcalibur V in 2012.

An accurate estimation of the death toll in the massacre has not been achieved because most of the Japanese military records on the killings were deliberately destroyed or kept secret shortly after the surrender of Japan in 1945.

The album was also a worldwide success, reaching No. 21 in the United States while going Gold ( the third time a Wakeman record had achieved this ) in Brazil, Japan and Australia.

The article nevertheless achieved the effect of drawing attention to the possibility that Australia would be invaded by Japan.

In Japan, generally the kyu ranks are only really tested for and achieved in high schools and colleges, with adults skipping the kyu ranks and moving straight on to the first dan.

In East-Asian cultures like Japan, politeness is achieved not so much on the basis of volition as on discernment ( wakimae, finding one's place ), or prescribed social norms.

Similarly, in Japan, food hygiene has to be achieved through compliance with food sanitation law.

Besides expanding its control over German holdings, Manchuria and Inner Mongolia, Japan also sought joint ownership of a major mining and metallurgical complex in central China, prohibitions on China's ceding or leasing any coastal areas to a third power, and miscellaneous other political, economic and military controls, which, if achieved, would have reduced China to a Japanese protectorate.

In Japan, high resistance to IPNV in rainbow trout has been achieved by selectively breeding the stock.

However, complete dissolution of the zaibatsu was never achieved, mostly because U. S. government rescinded the orders in an effort to reindustrialize Japan as a bulwark against Communism in Asia.

The film achieved higher box office receipts in Japan than in the United States.

First released in Japan in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1998, Hikaru no Go achieved tremendous success, spawning a popular Go fad of almost unprecedented proportions ; it received the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2000 and its creators received the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2003 for the series.

He achieved European success in England, Germany, Belgium, Russia and Romania in addition to great success in Japan.

In 1974 the Guatemala Northeast district achieved regular status, the first since Japan achieved this milestone in 1936 Also in 1974 the Nazarene Young Peoples Society ( now Nazarene Youth International ) in its desire to be more inclusive, held its first International Institute ( now Nazarene World Youth Conference ) on the campus of European Nazarene Bible College in Büsingen, Germany.

Other singles from the album were " On the Horizon " ( UK number fourteen, written with Gregg Alexander ), " Let's Love " in Japan ( where the song accompanied a Toyota commercial ), " Yeh Yeh Yeh " in mainland Europe and, finally, a UK double A-side of " Melt "/" Yeh Yeh Yeh ", which achieved a disappointing UK chart position of number twenty-seven.

A fourth single " I'll Never Get Enough ", co-written by Jeanne Napoli, Gary Portnoy and Judy Quay, was released in Japan and achieved Top 10 status.

It was assumed that there was a cyclic development: any particular form, say the tanka in Japan, would be introduced at one point in history, be explored by masters during a subsequent time, and finally be subject to popularisation ( and a certain dilution ) when it achieved widespread recognition.

Cumulative sales of 1 million Prii were achieved in the U. S. by early April 2011, and Japan reached the 1 million mark in August 2011.

Then turning to neighboring rivals, it one by one achieved dominance over the Imagawa, Takeda, Azai, Asakura and other clans, until Nobunaga held control over central Japan.

The three-door hatchback body style has been somewhat unpopular in the United States, but has achieved wide acceptance in Canada, as well as popularity in Japan and European markets, helping cement Honda's reputation as a maker of sporty compact models.