His success as a reliever helped the gradual change in usage patterns of pitchers, and the popularity of the concept of a " relief ace.

In southern and eastern Pennsylvania eastern towhee nest success was not significantly ( p ≥ 0. 10 ) different on sites with gradual edges and those with more distinct edges between " wildlife habitat openings " and oak-hickory forest.

The albums released after 1980 are largely viewed by critics as a gradual move away from the original sound that gained them success in the 1970s.

The success of this string quartet led to its gradual expansion, and in 1824 Lanner was able to conduct a small string orchestra playing Viennese dance music.

Their success led to the gradual replacement of the manipravala cult of worldliness and sensual revelry by an indigenous poetics of high seriousness.

Her earliest roles were minor, but her activity and gradual success helped to establish her as a distinguished Egyptian actress.

He has been instrumental in the gradual success of Turkish football, helping to create better facilities for Turkish clubs and football organisations.

Rather, they are impressed with the British Government's success in forcing -- and helping -- the British textile industry to shrink and to change over to other products.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

He was also hesitant to change the formula that had brought him such success, and feared that giving the Tramp a voice would limit his international appeal.

The family worked and built up the gardens and Monet's fortunes began to change for the better as his dealer Paul Durand-Ruel had increasing success in selling his paintings.

However, it was to take another three years, and a change of coach, before the team's obvious potential was translated into tangible success.

The Electoral success of New Labour in 1997, which would be led by two Prime Ministers with Scottish connections, Tony Blair ( who was brought up in Scotland ) from 1997 to 2007 and Gordon Brown from 2007 – 10, opened the way for constitutional change.

Good change management procedures improve the over all quality and success of changes as they are implemented.

In his textbooks he selected Indo-European examples that supported the key Neogrammarian hypothesis of the regularity of sound change, and emphasized a sequence of steps essential to success in comparative work: ( a ) appropriate data in the form of texts which must be studied intensively and analysed ; ( b ) application of the comparative method ; ( c ) reconstruction of proto-forms.

After little success probing the unrealized children's film market, Baum came clean about who wrote The Last Egyptian and made a film of it ( portions of which are included in Decasia ), but the Oz name had, for the time being, become box office poison and even a name change to Dramatic Feature Films and transfer of ownership to Frank Joslyn Baum did not help.

Its success would change current views of literacy and schooling.

Japan also tried to change the social organization in the islands from Matrilineality to the Japanese Patriarchal system, but with no success.

Despite critical success, sales lagged, and the publication schedule change from monthly to bimonthly.

Alternative starting rulesets exist for Internet and mail games, wherein gameplay occurs in alphabetical order by surname, and points added to the score are based on the success of a proposed rule change rather than random dice rolls.

Cranmer personally tried to persuade him to change his views without success.

Because of the perceived success of the reconciliatory approach in dealing with human-rights violations after political change either from internal or external factors, other countries have instituted similar commissions, though not always with the same scope or the allowance for charging those currently in power.

The change in production was hoped to bring the band more chart success, but although it got somewhat more mainstream radio play than their earlier releases, it did not represent a commercial breakthrough.

This was a tribute to its success in removing corruption, delivering public services ( even under the stress of two world wars ), and responding effectively to political change.

Despite enjoying widespread support by the majority of Haitians, the Washington Post informed their readers that regime change was looming on November 21, 2003: " Aristide has pushed with mixed success a populist agenda of higher minimum wages, school construction, literacy programs, higher taxes on the rich and other policies that have angered an opposition movement run largely by a mulatto elite that has traditionally controlled Haiti's economy.

The Times did likewise, but with less apparent success, with readers vocally opposing the change.

The development of commercial sound cinema had proceeded in fits and starts before The Jazz Singer, and the film's success did not change things overnight.

A major change in popular culture came in 1983 when singer Linda Ronstadt, then considered one of the leading female vocalists of the rock era The gamble paid off, as all three albums became hits, the international concert tours were a success and Riddle picked up a few more Grammys in the process.

With enhanced training and special weapons ( such as flamethrowers ), these squads obtained some success, but too late to change the outcome of the war.

Pop Art now was a success and was going to change the art world forever.

The ungentlemanly conduct of Jack Johnson and his refusal to fight legitimate contenders such as Englishman William Hague is often attributed to the difficulty of black fighters finding success in the heavyweight division ; Louis would change this around by showing he had conduct of a sportsman.

Reinforced by Phocian and Orchomenian troops and a Spartan army, he met the confederate forces at Coronea in Boeotia, and in a hotly contested battle was technically victorious, but the success was a barren one and he had to retire by way of Delphi to the Peloponnese.

For many centuries following his death Alboin's heroism and his success in battle were celebrated in Saxon and Bavarian epic poetry.

Alfred is particularly credited with the success of this latter battle.

Wessex's history of failures preceding his success in 878 emphasised to Alfred that the traditional system of battle he had inherited played to the Danes ' advantage.

The Greeks were ambivalent toward Ares: although he embodied the physical valor necessary for success in war, he was a dangerous force, " overwhelming, insatiable in battle, destructive, and man-slaughtering.

This was not a success in battle, and was replaced with a very successful series of increasingly powerful turretless assault guns: the SU-76, SU-122, and the heavy SU-152, which were followed by the ISU-122 and ISU-152 on the new IS heavy tank chassis.

By contrast, the British press were jubilant ; many newspapers sought to portray the battle as a victory for Britain over anarchy, and the success was used to attack the supposedly pro-republican Whig politicians Charles James Fox and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

In spite of the overwhelming British victory in the climactic battle, the campaign has sometimes been considered a strategic success for France.

Ammianus, who was a participant in the battle, portrays Julian in charge of events on the battlefield and describes how the soldiers, because of this success, acclaimed Julian attempting to make him Augustus, an acclamation he rejected, rebuking them.

" Luckily, many directors recognized the necessity ( and likely the commercial success they would reap ) of supporting the battle against fascism as public opinion lay with the war effort.

After an initial success in which William's forces destroyed the Angevins ' Welsh infantry, the battle went badly for Stephen.

The battle was a resounding success for Marlborough and Eugene, and had the effect of knocking Bavaria out of the war.

The battle is a success for the Romans, who, it is said, are led by Marcus Valerius Corvus.

At this time the Stone Roses decided to capitalise on their success by signing to a major label ; then, their current record label Silvertone would not let them out of their contract, which led to a long legal battle that culminated with the band signing with Geffen Records in 1991, and then releasing their second album Second Coming in 1994.

After his invention's success in battle on 30 April 1804, Shrapnel was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 20 July 1804, less than nine months later.

However, he did not see the same success in Egypt, for a Palmyrene underground, led by Timagenes, undermined Probus, defeated his army, and killed him in a battle near the modern city of Cairo in the late summer of 270.

Fritigern continued to battle the Romans with mixed success for two years after his great victory.

By about 1120 Gruffydd had grown too old to lead his forces in battle and Owain and his brothers Cadwallon and later Cadwaladr led the forces of Gwynedd against the Normans and against other Welsh princes with great success.

In the Late Middle Ages, the Frisian pirates led by respectively Pier Gerlofs Donia and Wijerd Jelckama, fought against the troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Empire with some success, capturing as many as 28 ships in one battle earning Donia the title " Cross of the Dutchman " and making him one of the most famous and iconic pirates of the era.

After regrouping, the battle continued throughout July and August, with some success for the British despite the reinforcement of the German lines.

He realised that his only hope of success in the Holy Land was to negotiate for the surrender of Jerusalem as he lacked the manpower to engage the Ayyubid empire in battle.

The battle took place at Cnidus in 394 BC, and was an easy and overwhelming Persian success.

A July 2010 article in BusinessWeek reported that Pfizer was seeing more success in its battle against makers of counterfeit prescription drugs by pursuing civil lawsuits rather than criminal prosecution.

Attalus crushes his enemy in a battle outside the walls of his city and to mark the success he takes the title of king and the name Soter.

This first military resistance group delayed their plans after Hitler's extreme popularity following the unexpectedly rapid success in the battle for France.