Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.

The pop science TV program MythBusters attempted to model Archimedes ' feat by using mirrors to ignite a small wooden boat covered with tar, with only partial success — they found it too difficult to focus light from their hand-held mirrors onto a point small enough to ignite the boat.

This mentality is difficult to understand in our modern age but the ancients took great stock in success as a sign of favoritism by the gods.

The event was not a success: the summer was exceptionally wet, making play difficult on damp uncovered pitches, and attendances were poor, attributed to a " surfeit of cricket ".

The Nieuport 11 of 1916 and Royal Aircraft Factory S. E. 5 of 1918 both used this system with considerable success, however this placement made aiming difficult and the location made it difficult for a pilot to both maneuver and have access to the gun's breech.

With a multi-million-dollar program finally on the very brink of success, Ford team officials faced a difficult choice.

While the automatic feeder was a success, unverified sources claim that it developed a reputation for being temperamental, prone to breakdowns, and difficult to repair.

Achieving acquisition success has proven to be very difficult, while various studies have shown that 50 % of acquisitions were unsuccessful.

This book had enjoyed considerable success in the 1520s, when it went through half a dozen editions ( see External links below for facsimiles and translations ) but did not sustain its influence, perhaps owing to its mostly Latin text, Gothic script and many difficult abbreviations.

Although her father was skeptical of her chances of success in a difficult profession, he took his daughter to New York in 1914, where he enrolled her in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Many of these bands enjoyed national success in the UK, but found it difficult to break into the American market.

Freud wrote that changing homosexuality was difficult and possible only under unusually favourable conditions, observing that “ in general to undertake to convert a fully developed homosexual into a heterosexual does not offer much more prospect of success than the reverse .” Success meant making heterosexual feeling possible, not eliminating homosexual feelings.

He credits his own success to affirmations, including Dilbert's success and achieving a ninety-fourth percentile on a difficult qualification exam for business school, among other unlikely events.

Tricky found it difficult to cope with the huge success of Maxinquaye and he subsequently eschewed the laidback soul sound of the first album to create an increasingly edgy and aggressive punk tinged music that echoed his personality as he became more erratic and unreliable.

This money is very difficult to raise by appeals to a mass base, although in the 2008 election, candidates from both parties had success with raising money from citizens over the Internet, as had Howard Dean with his Internet appeals.

Dieback is notoriously difficult to treat, although there has been some success with phosphite and phosphorous acid, which are currently used to inoculate wild B. brownii populations.

The emphasis on British reference points made it difficult for the genre to achieve success in the US.

Believing in the success of an invention can involve risk, so it can be difficult to obtain support and funding.

His results prompted Bessemer to try a purer iron obtained from Cumberland hematite, but even with this he had only limited success because the quantity of carbon was difficult to control.

As of 2008, no lobster aquaculture operation had achieved commercial success, due mainly to the fact that lobsters eat each other ( cannibalism ) and the slow growth of the species ; these two problems make it difficult to make lobster aquaculture profitable.

A technique which is having considerable success in recognising difficult words and character groups within documents generally amenable to computer OCR is to submit them automatically to humans in the reCAPTCHA system.

The nature of his large works – sometimes involving hundreds of performers – made financial success difficult.

The doctors dubbed the operation a success, but his inner ear became painfully inflamed.

To have had any chance of success, however, the operation would have required air and naval supremacy over the English Channel-neither of which the Germans ever had at any stage during the Battle of Britain.

It could only be the final act of an already victorious war against Britain as otherwise the preconditions for success of a combined operation would not be met.

Much of the operation was a success: the ASG was driven from Basilan and one U. S. hostage was recovered.

Not one passenger was seriously hurt and Wischnewski was able to phone Schmidt and tell the Bonn crisis team that the operation had been a success.

Pujol had a key role in the success of Operation Fortitude, the deception operation intended to mislead the Germans about the timing and location of the invasion of Normandy near the end of the war.

Guo Hu, head of the Beijing Municipal Meteorological Bureau ( BMB ), confirmed the success of the operation with 100 millimeters falling in Baoding City of Hebei Province, to the southwest and Beijing's Fangshan District recording a rainfall of 25 millimeters.

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.

Significant operation success in Kosovo led to resumption of production and technical improvements, and the system is at present in operational use in Iraq and other military operations.

He transfuses the blood of a sheep to a 15-year old boy ( though this operation is a success, a later patient dies from the procedure and Denys is accused of murder ).

The operation was generally considered a tremendous success, and its spectacular character has made it the subject of much continued comment and study.

In his report to Hitler about Weserübung, Raeder claimed that the success of the operation was " undoubtedly largely " the work of the capital ships, and argued that the campaign in Norway had " amply confirmed the soundness " ( emphasis in the original ) of the construction policies of the 1930s that favoured capital ships over U-boats and carriers.

The success of the Porto Bello operation led the British in September 1740 to send a squadron under Commodore George Anson to attack Spain's possessions in the Pacific.

Despite the success of their operation, the partners discovered that the design of the insta-broiler made the unit's heating elements prone to degradation from the drippings of the beef patties.

Part of their claimed success is said to be due to advances in electronics, which allows unattended operation and interfacing with the commercial power grid.

The availability of UNTSO's military observers for almost immediate deployment after the Security Council had acted to create a new operation has been an enormous contributory factor to the success of those operations.

The operation was initially a success for the republicans with the construction of the iron bridge nearly complete by the 3rd Division.

After some initial success, the Athenian troops become disorganised in the chaotic night operation and are thoroughly routed by Gylippus, the Spartan commander.

The rescue operation was carried out with success in c. 836, and the peace between Bulgaria and the Byzantine Empire was quickly restored.

The success of this operation provided a boost to the morale of an army which had at that time suffered a series of military defeats.

In February 2012, the company released its only title, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, a single-player action role-playing game that enjoyed moderate success, but by late May 2012, the company had ceased operation, due to financial difficulties for which it had filed for bankruptcy.

Great Falls AFB played a critical role in assuring the success of this vital operation.

Troops later recounted that one of the most extraordinary things about the Battle of Hamel was not the use of armoured tanks, nor simply the tremendous success of the operation, but the fact that in the midst of battle Monash had arranged delivery of hot meals up to the front line.