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success and counterattack
Early success was soon reversed by a German counterattack.
Despite initial success, a number of ad-hoc Romanian cadet battalions managed to stop the Hungarian advance at the Battle of Păuliş, and soon a combined Romanian-Soviet counterattack overwhelmed the Hungarians, who gave ground and evacuated Arad itself on 21 September.
This success was met with a German counterattack towards Hill 231, which was the scene of an intense firefight ; the battle ended with the Germans leaving over 40 dead and 35 prisoners.
On 22 February, alarmed by the success of the German counterattack, the Soviet Stavka ordered the Voronezh Front to shift the 3rd Tank Army and 69th Army south, in an effort to alleviate pressure on the Southwestern Front and destroy German forces in the Krasnograd area.
A counterattack late in the day on the 11th Brigade's position was turned back, sealing a stunning success for the 3rd Division.
The Republican counterattack on Trijueque and Casa del Cabo, Palacio de Ibarra was launched with some success.
In it, a Polish breakout attack gained initial success but eventually faltered after a concentrated German counterattack.
A counterattack prevented the success of this dangerous mission in Yoshino.
Despite the initial American success, the British and Native Americans rallied and launched a surprise counterattack four days later on January 22.
Its 2005 success provoked " a government counterattack " against the Brotherhood.

success and forced
After an initial success, his first line of cavalry, under the Imperial General of Horse, Prince Maximilian of Hanover, were pressed by the second line of Marsin's cavalry, and were forced back across the Nebel in confusion.
Because of his lack of commercial success, Bowie was forced to try to earn a living in different ways.
That success did not last long, as post-war domestic problems, Albanian resistance, and pressure from United States President Woodrow Wilson, forced Italy to pull out in 1920.
The offensive ended with a complete success, and Mieszko II was forced to surrender some lands.
The operation was a military success, but after the United States and Soviet Union united in opposition to the invasion, the invaders were forced to withdraw.
A major American success came in 1813, when the American Navy destroyed the British fleet on Lake Erie, and forced the British and their American Indian allies to retreat back toward Niagara.
One of the Empress's greatest achievements was her success in maintaining German supremacy over Bohemia, as Duke Boleslaus II of Bohemia was forced to accept the authority of Otto III.
His forced conversions or evictions carried out in the midst of the Thirty Years ' War, which with the later general success of the Protestants therefore had greatly negative consequences for Habsburg control of the Holy Roman Empire itself, while these campaigns within the Habsburg hereditary lands were largely successful in religiously purifying his demesnes, leaving the Austrian Emperors thereafter with much greater control within their hereditary power base — although Hungary was never successfully re-Catholicized — but one much reduced in population and economic might while less vigorous and weakened as a nation-state.
However, the success of the conservative opposition forced the moderate Bush to move further to the right than in 1988, and to incorporate many socially conservative planks in the party platform.
However, the success of the Russian army on the land forced Sweden to sign peace treaties with Russia in 1809 and with France in 1810 and to join the Continental Blockade against Britain.
This was unexpected and forced Gilbert and Sullivan to race to complete and rehearse their new opera, The Pirates of Penzance, which premièred with much success on 31 December.
The success of the MLR in blocking the movement of heavy weapons off the beach meant that, after four hours, the Rangers were forced to give up on attempts to move them any further inland.
This was vital to the success of the Allied plan, since it forced the Germans to keep most of their reserves bottled up waiting for an attack on Calais that never came, thereby allowing the Allies to maintain and build upon their marginal foothold in Normandy.
Despite early success and the capture of the towns of Rastenburg and Gumbinnen, In the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914 and the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes in 1915, the Russians were decisively defeated and forced to retreat, followed by the German Army advancing into Russian territory.
Despite Alvarado's initial success in the Battle of Acajutla, the indigenous people of Cuzcatlan, who according to tradition were led by a warlord called Atlacatl, defeated the Spaniards and their auxiliaries, and forced them to withdraw to Guatemala.
In 1221, the success of Raymond and his son continued: Montréal and Fanjeaux were re-taken, and many Catholics were forced to flee.
Because workers are forced to compete in a global job market, wages are less dependent on the success or failure of individual economies.
Soon afterwards, Foscolo's tragedy of Ajax was presented, with little success, at Milan, and because of its supposed allusions to Napoleon, he was forced to move from Milan to Tuscany.
Initially the Confederate Army had success in their attempts to gain control of New Mexico, but following the Battle of Glorieta Pass Confederate soldiers were forced to retreat.
After three decades of resistance, Disney finally entered Saturday morning in 1985 when The Gummi Bears and The Wuzzles debuted with significantly more substantial budgets ; the first-run syndication success of DuckTales, which premiered in 1987, eventually inspired a whole block of Disney-produced syndicated cartoons which forced competing studios to improve their own production standards to compete.
Incurring Anne's disfavour, and caught between Tory and Whig factions, Marlborough, who had brought glory and success to Anne's reign, was forced from office and went into self-imposed exile.
He quickly became a popular success, but alcohol problems forced him to leave the group.
For two years more the fighting continued with varying success, until Charles of Valois, who had been sent by Boniface to invade Sicily, was forced to sue for peace, his army being decimated by the plague.
Further delays in resource procurement might have led to German success, which could have defeated Britain and forced it out of the war, or at least caused a postponement of Operation Torch, the American-led landing in northwest Africa and Operation Overlord, the landing in France in 1942 and 1944.
As the manned space program needs a success to continue, they find themselves forced to falsify the landing rather than cancel the mission.

success and Stavka
In the face of German success against the Southwestern Front, including attempts by the Soviet 6th Army breaking out of the encirclement, Stavka ordered the Voronezh Front to relinquish control of the 3rd Tank Army to the Southwestern Front.
Seeing this success, Stavka issued new orders on 28 July.
Following the German success up to 11 July, and against Konev's protests, Zhukov allowed the Stavka to release two Russian made armies, the 5th Guards Tank Army under General Pavel Rotmistrov and the 5th Guards Army from Steppe Front to meet the German threat.

success and stop
The Haunted Hotel ( 1907 ) is another stop motion film by J. Stuart Blackton, and was a resounding success when released.
The video, directed by Lavie and Yuval and Merav Nathan, uses stop motion and has achieved great success with over 15 million views, also earning a 2010 Grammy Award nomination for " Best Short Form Music Video ".
The film received positive reviews for the film's stop motion animation, musical score and original storyline and was a box office success, grossing $ 50 million.
The attack was a great success and showed that the German defences could no longer stop well-prepared attacks made in good weather.
Similarly to Keeper of the Flame and Without Love, a lukewarm response from critics did not stop it from being a financial success both at home and abroad.
Local population requires that La Caletta can have in its port a ferry line for the Continent ( Italian mainland ), and some experiments were practiced a few years ago, that confirmed the potential success of such an eventual initiative, but ( also due to the particular administrative competence of an external organ and being part of the port under the authority of the bordering territory of Posada ) administrative problems and local rivalries actually stop any further evolution in this sense.
She also enjoyed hunting, to the dismay of Queen Victoria, who asked her to stop, but without success.
Casino gambling was introduced in both towns in the early 1990s, but had more success in Black Hawk ( which has 18 casinos ) than in Central City ( which has 6 casinos ), partly because the main road to Central City passed through Black Hawk, tempting gamblers to stop in Black Hawk instead.
It was enough to stop Hubert Humphrey, and Nixon's ground breaking success as a Republican winning electoral votes from Democratic southern states, was partly due to Democrats not voting for the Democratic ticket.
The town enjoyed great economic success during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, serving as home to several factories, breweries, an important railroad stop for local coal and timber, and briefly the Twyford Motor Car Company, which operated from 1905 to 1907 and produced the world's first 4-wheel drive automobile.
When Teague lifts the spell on Paradine, he brags that he could stop the entire army in this manner, ensuring the success of the Confederacy.
But Francis ' new found success was short-lived as she was diagnosed with mental illness ( manic depression ) which brought her career to a stop for a further four years during which she was committed to a total of seventeen hospitals.
His success did not stop there.
* Early " failure " is a normal part of trying to stop, and more than one attempt at stopping smoking prior to longer-term success is common.
This did not stop Hindman, who went on the political circuit and had some success building an unlikely coalition of newly freed slaves and Democrats.
From the time of his serious wound in 1864 until his death, he was forced to wear an early form of a catheter with a bag and underwent six operations to try to correct the original wound and stop the fevers and infections that plagued him, without success.
Butler cracked down on bars and speakeasies and tried to stop corruption within the police force, but demand for liquor and political pressure made the job difficult, and he had little success.
* Venture capitalists will stop at nothing to copy success.
Villa made a last attempt to stop Obregón's army in Aguascalientes on 10 July, but without success.
Her father felt that married life would stop her from becoming a success in the entertainment business.
His early success was as a free roaming left back, as likely to score from the right midfield as to stop an attacker in his own penalty area.
During the war, especially from 1942 on, the Polish Government in Exile provided the Allies with some of the earliest and most accurate accounts of the ongoing Holocaust of European Jews and, through its representatives, like the Foreign Minister Count Edward Raczynski and the courier of the Polish Underground movement, Jan Karski, called for action, without success, to stop it.
When they were asked for the secret of the show ’ s success, Betty Smith said: ‘ We never stop talking.

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