Alcaeus and his older brothers were passionately involved in the struggle but experienced little success.

The team began to fade after this success, and was dealt a severe blow under the ownership of the Robison brothers.

In addition, Brown's former band mates, including Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker and the Collins brothers, had found bigger success as members of George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic collective.

In any case, the circumstances were such that the brothers could hope for no permanent success without obtaining the authorization of Rome.

With the success of these first talkies ( The Jazz Singer, Lights of New York, The Singing Fool, and The Terror ), Warner Bros. became one of the top studios in Hollywood and the brothers were now able to move out from the Poverty Row section of Hollywood and acquire a big studio in Burbank, California.

Dodge Brothers enjoyed much success in this field, but the brothers ' growing wish to build complete vehicles was exemplified by John Dodge's 1913 exclamation that he was " tired of being carried around in Henry Ford's vest pocket.

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.

Many American cinematographers have gone on to become directors themselves: Barry Sonnenfeld, originally the Coen brothers ' DP, has gone on to have success as a director ; Jan de Bont, cinematographer on films as Die Hard and Basic Instinct went on to direct Speed and Twister.

Enticed by the success of the McDonald's concept, Kroc signed a franchise agreement with the brothers and began opening McDonald's restaurants in Illinois.

After the flights, the brothers walked back to Kitty Hawk, where they sent a telegram from the Weather Bureau office to their father informing him of their success.

Their success was built on the foundations laid down by other famous players like Coen Dillen, Willy van der Kuijlen, Jan van Beveren, Jan Poortvliet, and the Van de Kerkhof brothers, Willy and René.

The film proved to be a commercial and critical success, and the four brothers were able to establish a studio in California.

An example are child actor twin identical brothers Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński who became very success politicians in Poland, at one time one being President and the other the Prime Minister at the same time.

When Langley received word from his friend Octave Chanute of the Wright brothers ' success with their 1902 glider, he attempted to meet the Wrights, but they politely evaded his request.

Despite popular success, the brothers ' penchant for material that was critical of the political mainstream and sympathetic to the emerging counterculture led to their firing by the CBS network in 1969.

The Chaffey brothers left to found the settlements of Mildura, Australia and Renmark, Australia which met with varying success.

The Adam brothers ' success can also be attributed to a desire to design everything down to the smallest detail, ensuring a sense of unity in their design.

Along with Dick ( Richie ) Allen his two brothers Hank and Ron also played major league baseball but did not garner as much success as Richie ..

The brothers recognised the publicity that could be obtained for their vehicles by participation in motor racing and Renault made itself known through achieving instant success in the first city-to-city races held in Switzerland resulting in rapid expansion for the company.

His own works, which circulated in manuscript in his lifetime, include brief works on the Procession of the Holy Ghost, and letters to his brothers, to L. Bruni, Guauni, Traversari, and to Pallas Strozzi, as well as two which were eventually printed, his Erotemata Civas Questiones which was the first basic Greek grammar in use in Western Europe, first published in 1484 and widely reprinted, and which enjoyed considerable success not only among his pupils in Florence, but also among later leading humanists, being immediately studied by Thomas Linacre at Oxford and by Desiderius Erasmus at Cambridge ; and Epistolæ tres de comparatione veteris et novæ Romæ ( Three Letters Comparing Ancient and Modern Rome ).

By the release of the 1979 double album, Winner Takes All, however, the brothers started to reach a peak of its success.

With the consistent success of Ultimate's releases there were rumours of a buyout by Ocean, until it was announced in 1985 that the Stamper brothers had sold the Ultimate catalogue and name to U. S. Gold, who would continue to release games under the Ultimate label.

Following an unsuccessful early album made with his brothers, Tom Chapin and Steve Chapin, Chapin's debut album was Heads & Tales ( 1972, # 60 ), which was a success thanks to the single " Taxi " (# 24 ).

Other characters can also set forth on quests — the hero's older brothers commonly do — but the hero is distinguished by his success.

They'd peddled the soap virtually alone, and without much success, until about a year ago, when -- with the addition of `` SX-21 '' to their secret formula and the inauguration of a high-powered advertising campaign -- sales had soared practically into orbit.

At Lee Simonson's house, I had dined with Edith Hamilton, the nonogenarian rationalist and the charming scholar who had a great popular success with The Greek Way.

She asked if I had other advice and, heady with success, I rushed it in, I hope not too late.

Why had not this success come to him before he had plunged into his Discourse, and before he had committed himself to a life of austerity and denial??

The president of the firm, calculating expenses alone, felt his costs had dropped one-half while success in selection had improved over one hundred per cent.

We may say that his attitude was foolish, since he may have been a success had he learned some human relations skills ; ;

It stated that it had lost 20,000,000 livres in its operations, and apparently blamed its poor success largely on the Indian trade.

The first singers who have had international success are Aissa Jermouni ( he sung at the Olympia in 1937 ) 307 and Ali Khencheli.

Tergui music is sung in Tuareg languages generally, Tinariwen had a world wide success.

Ray Charles is credited with the song's most well known rendition in current times ( although Elvis Presley had success with it in the 1970s ).

The Assyrians had better success than the Egyptians, annexing much Hittite ( and also Hurrian ) territories in these regions.

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 ).

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But no attempt to identify the figures on existing gems with the personages of Gnostic mythology has had any success, and Abrasax is the only Gnostic term found in the accompanying legends which is not known to belong to other religions or mythologies.

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.

Despite his success against the Gepids, Alboin had failed to greatly increase his power, and was now faced with a much stronger threat from the Avars.

In spite of the success of the crusade, Alexios also had to repel numerous attempts on his territory by the Seljuqs in 1110 – 1117.

Alexios I had stabilized the Byzantine Empire and overcame a dangerous crisis, inaugurating a century of imperial prosperity and success.