His lack of success steadily eroded his interest.

When Grant's spring campaigns turned into bloody stalemates and Union casualties mounted, the lack of military success wore heavily on the President's re-election prospects, and many Republicans across the country feared that Lincoln would be defeated.

Lawry was sacked after the Sixth Test after the selectors finally lost patience with Australia's lack of success and dour strategy.

They justified this relatively low ranking ( though higher than every other Atari console save the 2600 ) with the summary statement: " Its delayed release, its cancelled peripherals, and a lack of financial backing from the company's new owners all combined to ensure that Atari 7800 would never see any success beyond being a sexier way of playing Atari 2600 titles.

This version was also played in Hamburg, Dresden, Hanover, and Berlin, although, in the wake of protests and a lack of success, Niemann-Raabe eventually restored the original ending.

Alston entered the pre-architectural program only to lose interest upon seeing the lack of success many African American architects had in the field.

The lack of senior management sponsorship can also hinder the success of a new CRM system.

So was his usual lack of success.

It is because of the lack of support for fiscal conservatism that federal parties such as the Canadian Alliance never had much success in the region, and the level of support for the new Conservative Party of Canada in the region is uncertain.

The possibility of a digital planned economy was explored by Chile with the creation of Project Cybersyn, the project was a success in many ways but due to the lack of computer technology and need for constant human input was limited in comparison to modern and more advanced technology.

Wagoner and Parton were both frustrated by her lack of solo success, because he had a significant financial stake in her future: as of 1969, he was her co-producer and owned nearly half of Owepar, the publishing company Parton had founded with Bill Owens.

By 1970, both Parton and Wagoner had grown frustrated by her lack of solo chart success, and Porter had her record Jimmie Rodgers ' " Mule Skinner Blues ", a gimmick that worked.

Because of his lack of commercial success, Bowie was forced to try to earn a living in different ways.

PBS telecast the series, beginning in January 1980 ; the general format was that of Dr. Friedman visiting and narrating a number of success and failure stories in history, which Dr. Friedman attributes to capitalism or the lack thereof ( e. g. Hong Kong is commended for its free markets, while India is excoriated for relying on centralized planning especially for its protection of its traditional textile industry ).

Alexander partially blames the lack of success on the mood of the country after 9 / 11.

The Royals ' recent lack of success, however, as well as the Yankees ' more popular and historic rivalry with the Boston Red Sox has caused this rivalry to lose its prominence.

The lack of success and stalemate in progress prompted Wakefield, at that time the band's vocalist, to leave the band in search of other projects.

Russia under Peter I ( Peter the Great ) attempted to pursue mercantilism, but had little success because of Russia's lack of a large merchant class or an industrial base.

The lack of third-party support kept the number of new games very limited, but the success of the Philips Videopac G7000 overseas led to two other companies producing games for it: Parker Brothers released Popeye, Frogger, Q * Bert and Super Cobra, while Imagic released versions of their hit games Demon Attack and Atlantis.

After months of financial difficulty and lack of market success, Punch became a staple for British drawing rooms because of its sophisticated humour and absence of offensive material, especially when viewed against the satirical press of the time.

The lack of a sufficient individual education, due to a perhaps intentionally provoked low quality of school, is then considered one of the major reasons for the success of such attempts.

Disappointed with the lack of interest from government in Mars exploration and after the success of his book The Case for Mars as well as leadership experience at the National Space Society, Zubrin established the Mars Society in 1998.

By this stage in their career, the band were acutely aware of the pressure they were under from EMI, who were unhappy with the lack of chart success of much of the material the band had released since their Positive Touch LP in 1981.

Repeated motions must be " so devoid of merit and be so frivolous that they can be described as a flagrant abuse of the system, have no reasonable probability of success, lack reasonable or probable cause or excuse, and are clearly meant to abuse the processes of the courts and to harass the adverse party than other litigants.

Despite his lack of significant family connections or success in office, he achieved praetorship in either 39 or 40, at the youngest age permitted ( 30 ), during a period of political upheaval in the organisation of elections.

There was much speculation and fear about the prospect of a Labour government, and comparatively little about a Liberal government, even though it could have plausibly presented an experienced team of ministers compared to Labour's almost complete lack of experience, as well as offering a middle ground that could get support from both Conservatives and Labour in crucial Commons divisions.

Cavalry " flying columns " proved effective, or at least cost-effective, in many campaigns — although an astute native commander ( like Samori in western Africa, Shamil in the Caucasus, or any of the better Boer commanders ) could turn the tables and use the greater mobility of their cavalry to offset their relative lack of firepower compared with European forces.

Ballistas are notable for their high degree of accuracy, but also their lack of firepower compared to that of a Mangonel or Trebuchet.

* The connection between the lack of an Islamic spirit and the lack of victory was underscored by the disastrous defeat of Arab nationalist-led armies fighting under the slogan " Land, Sea and Air " in the 1967 Six Day War, compared to the ( perceived ) near-victory of the Yom Kippur War six years later.

Penguins are popular around the world, primarily for their unusually upright, waddling gait and ( compared to other birds ) lack of fear of humans.

RNA viruses generally have very high mutation rates compared to DNA viruses, because viral RNA polymerases lack the proof-reading ability of DNA polymerases.

Leonard Wolf praised the film as "... an exquisite work of art " and compared it to a Greek tragedy, noting the lack of onscreen violence.

Because of the lack of a residual gap in the magnetic path, toroidal transformers also tend to exhibit higher inrush current, compared to laminated E-I types.

The 3G rates are relatively cheap compared to the world, because of the lack of the country population and also lack of cultural technology immersion.

* This minimal amount of information translates to a much smaller file size compared to large raster images ( the size of representation does not depend on the dimensions of the object ), though a vector graphic with a small file size is often said to lack detail compared with a real world photo.

This was withdrawn soon afterwards due to lack of software and hardware support compared to competing operating systems.

Louis understood the danger of the growing Angevin power ; however, through indecision and lack of fiscal and military resources compared to Henry II's, he failed to oppose Angevin hegemony effectively.

Six thousand Britons died compared with less than a thousand dead Spanish, English ships as leaving some gaps which needed sink for lack of seamanship.

John L. Sullivan who made boxing championships a popular and esteemed spectacle stated that Johnson was in such good physical shape compared to Jeffries that he could only lose if he had a lack of skill on the day.

In this description, on the other hand, although there are many elements of the description that we could transfer directly from the grounds to the suitor ( natural beauty, lack of artifice ), Austen is emphasizing the consistency of the domain of use rather than stretching to make a fresh comparison: each of the things she describes she associates with Darcy, and in the end we feel that Darcy is as beautiful as the place to which he is compared and that he belongs within it.

Critics cited poor graphics compared to other 3D action adventures of the time and Tim Schafer's lack of involvement in the project as possible reasons for its cancellation.

The M8 and R-D1 are expensive compared to more common digital SLRs, and lack several features that are common with modern digital cameras, such as no real telephoto lenses available beyond 135mm focal length, very limited macro ability, live preview, movie recording, and face detection.

" The Beast in the Jungle " ( 1903 ) is almost universally considered to be one of James's finest short narratives, and has often been compared with The Ambassadors in its meditation on experience or the lack of it.

Industry in the area is at a standstill or decreasing due to lack of natural resources excluding timber and distance of travel being situated in a rural geographical area compared to other Mississippi coastal counties.

This life-history strategy has probably evolved both in response to the challenges of living at sea ( collecting widely scattered prey items ), the frequency of breeding failures due to unfavourable marine conditions, and the relative lack of predation compared to that of land-living birds.

It was comparatively advanced when released, especially when compared to the contemporary more commercially oriented Commodore PET and TRS-80, but due to a number of problems including a lack of marketing, the machine remained relatively unknown.