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altogether and successful
His tenure was not altogether successful, partly because he was deceived by his ally, the Duke of Marlborough, into a diversionary attack, and partly because Emperor Joseph I appropriated the funds necessary for George's campaign for his own use.
As he recorded in his notes, his preaching was not altogether successful.
Theoretically, this was adjustable to compensate for further subsidence although, in practice it was less than successful and was ultimately removed altogether.
These collection started with simple poems, or rather, rhymes, that were humorous but sometimes contained a more serious note ; but later it appeared that Toon Hermans may have tried to create more serious poetry, which was not altogether successful ( and perhaps it was not he, but his publishers, who tried to put this spin on things ).
However, the A & B was in such a precarious financial position that any successful legal action against them would likely have forced the line through Quainton Road to close, severing the Tramway's connection with the national network altogether.
His tour through a rough country — with the inconveniences of long distances, the necessity of presenting his plays in rude halls, insufficient support, and poor scenery — was not altogether successful, but the discipline to mind and body was felt in all his subsequent career.
But when we inquire whether aerial flight is possible in the present state of our knowledge ; whether, with such materials as we possess, a combination of steel, cloth and wire can be made which, moved by the power of electricity or steam, shall form a successful flying machine, the outlook may be altogether different.
A fourth sister was not successful and left this milieu and a fifth avoided show business altogether.
Meanwhile he continued a fairly successful wrestling career, participating altogether in 6, 783 professional bouts and commanding fees upwards of $ 1, 500 for each match.
Although coming to motor racing late in life ( at age 41 in 1949 ), he won a total of 126 F3 races altogether, and was described by Motor Sport magazine ( in his 1998 obituary ) as " the most successful Formula 3 driver in history.
The Xie family received official residence in a fancy mansion, where their entertainments were among the foremost for the luxury and display fashionable at that time: that the young duke ( having inherited the title when his father died ) was well off financially ( having also inherited the three thousand household fiefdom which went with the ducal title ) and was also skilled in the expected literary abilities altogether went towards placing him in the highlight of the capital's social scene, and ( with the family connections ) appearing to be at the very beginning of a very successful official career.
But the Hebrew Gazzali was no more successful than his Arabian prototype ; and his attacks, although they certainly helped to discredit the Kalam — for which no one cared any longer — were altogether powerless against Peripatetic philosophy, which soon found numerous defenders.
Having forged a successful alliance with General Bindiga, the dictator of Zinariya, and publicly supporting him through his paper in spite of blatant human rights violations in that country, Mark has seemingly stopped listening to his conscience altogether.
After that, Hulme left football altogether, to become a successful journalist.
Not altogether successful in the second category, it still succeeds on its first.
Although the results were not altogether successful, Sargant resolved to introduce the operation into Britain.
The styling of the S-Type was regarded by many of those who worked on it as being not altogether successful.
Pollak became a very successful director at Dramaten and staged altogether 60 plays at the national stage over the years.

altogether and play
His discomfort speaking on stage led to his uncle Al Shean's suggestion that he stop speaking altogether and play the role in mime.
Looney rejected the play altogether, arguing that its style and the " dreary negativism " it promoted were inconsistent with Shakespeare's " essentially positivist " soul, and so could not have been written by Oxford.
His version eliminates the brothers altogether as part of a notable enhancement of Posthumus ' role in the play.
With the rise of feminist movements in the twentieth century, reactions to the play changed: " In short, Kate's taming was no longer as funny as it had been for some readers and spectators ; her domination became, in George Bernard Shaw's words ' altogether disgusting to modern sensibility '.
The fool speaks the prophecy lines, which he tells — largely ignored — to Lear before disappearing from the play altogether.
The play, in spite of its felicity of diction, lacks dramatic interest, and the criticism of Richard Flecknoe ( Short Discourse of the English Stage ), that it seemed " full of flowers, but rather stuck in than growing there ," is not altogether unjustified.
The Libertines were forced to play without Doherty: a guitar technician learned his guitar parts and several songs were dropped altogether.
These aspects were most noticeable when he conducted his home orchestra-the Czech Philharmonic, but he also managed to get orchestras as diverse as the Toronto Symphony, the Vienna Symphony and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to also play with a sharp, distinctive and altogether Czech sound.
While dining cars are less common today than in the past ( having been supplemented, or in some cases replaced altogether by other types of food-service cars ) they still play a significant role in passenger railroading, especially on medium-and long-distance trains.
The unsettled deal almost caused National Telefilm Associates to reconsider its decision to sell the station altogether, and NTA made plans to go forward: WNTA-TV made a play to acquire broadcast rights for the New York Mets baseball team for its inaugural 1962 season.
It was also known for introducing the phrase " in the altogether " ( meaning " completely unclothed ") and the term " Svengali " for a man with dominating powers over a ( generally female ) protegee, as well as indirectly inspiring the name of the Trilby hat, originally worn on stage by a character in the play.
If she was going to play a similar role with Mothra in this production, or something else altogether, is unknown.
Halliwell-Phillipps took the view that the play performed in 1613 was an altogether different work.
Each of three or more performers in an angkalung ensemble play just one note or more, but altogether complete melodies are produced.
As a result, Bulykin remained with Dynamo, and was quickly relegated to play in the second team, and eventually excluded from training process altogether.
Most leagues eventually banned these devices altogether, banned cheerleaders from access to public-address systems, and prevented bands from playing while the ball was actually in play.
Bc4, and either delay d2 – d4, or forgo it altogether and instead play d2 – d3.
Anderson stated in 1865 that he " would not play against those who have combined to sweep us from the cricket field altogether if they could ".
In 1992, the birth qualification rule was first modified to include those educated within the county, a dispensation that allowed Michael Vaughan to play ; and was then abandoned altogether.
Another CFL exhibition game would have taken place on June 3, 2006, but the suspension of the Ottawa Renegades, who were scheduled to play the game, forced the game to be cancelled altogether.
All officials need to be close to the action, but with some distance permitted for active play so as not to interfere with players who often have to go outside their own squares, or beyond the foursquare court altogether, to return a ball.
However, the lockout negatively affected many minor-league players, where the influx of NHL players forced many to play in lower-level leagues for less money or out of jobs altogether.
These play modes are equivalent to disregarding suit difference, either within the colors or altogether, and thus can be simulated in the physical card game, though the computer version aids visibility by representing all cards as spades and / or hearts.
This was also the first Ultima game where you had to play as a human, eliminating elves, dwarves, and bobbits found in previous games altogether.

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