Although his long Livonian War for the control of the Baltic coast and the access to sea trade ultimately proved a costly failure, Ivan managed to annex the Khanates of Kazan, Astrakhan, and Siberia.

However, it proved costly to keep, consumed a vast amount of money and subsequently led to other parts of the French Armed Forces being underfunded.

Overall, however, Meccan efforts to annihilate Islam failed and proved to be very costly and ultimately unsuccessful.

Paramount was the first successful nation-wide distributor ; until this time, films were sold on a state-wide or regional basis which had proved costly to film producers.

Although the Patriots jumped out to an early lead, a critical turnover before the end of the first half that led to a Rams score proved costly.

This, however, proved a costly failure.

It proved better than Z-buffer / painter's type algorithms at handling scenes of high depth complexity with costly pixel operations ( i. e. perspective-correct texture mapping without hardware assist ).

Weserübung, though successful, proved to be a costly operation for the Kriegsmarine with almost the entire German surface fleet either sunk or badly damaged.

Concrete construction proved to be more flexible and less costly than building solid stone buildings.

In general, developments in the Second Sino-Japanese War were to the advantage of the CPC, as their guerilla war effort had won them popular support within the Japanese-occupied areas while the KMT's burden to defend China against main Japanese assaults due to its status as the legal government of China proved costly to Chiang Kai-shek and his troops.

James's assertion of his authority throughout the realm also extended to the Church and observed that David I's dispersal of lands to the church proved to be costly to royal income and that David was ' a sair sanct to the crown '.

Theoretically, enriching uranium was feasible through pre-existing techniques in physics ( e. g., modifying particle accelerator technology ), though it proved difficult to scale to industrial levels and was extremely costly.

This proved to be a costly error as French defenses took a toll of American landing forces.

It proved disastrous to the Huguenots and costly for France.

An attempt to keep the sawmill open with California redwood proved too costly, and the mill was closed.

The plant proved to be costly, inefficient and difficult to maintain.

The operational costs of this venture proved too costly and the plant suspended operation about 1913.

This method was originally planned for the Mars Odyssey orbiter, but the significant design impacts proved too costly.

The 2001 live action / animation hybrid Osmosis Jones, starring Bill Murray, was a costly commercial failure, although its home video performance proved successful enough for WB's TV Animation Department to produce a short-lived spin-off series called Ozzy and Drix.

This decision, for which Hitler, Rundstedt and Kleist shared responsibility, proved very costly to Germany's war effort in the long term.

This doctrine proved to be a costly mistake.

The siege of Samosata proved costly and ineffective.

But the ambition of the oligarchs, and the fear and jealousy of innumerable monopolists who rose in arms against his policy of economy, proved at last too strong for Bonde, while the costly and useless expedition against Bremen in 1665, undertaken contrary to his advice, completed the ruin of the finances.

This delay proved to be somewhat costly, since the Americans used this time to improve fortifications on northwestern Long Island ( at Brooklyn Heights ) and increase the size of their army with militia.

The ILP's insistence on standing by its long-held ethically based objections to militarism and war proved costly in terms both in terms of its standing in the eyes of the general public as well as its ability to hold sway over the politicians who ran under its banner.

He left Rome on 27 February 1782, and, though magnificently received by the Emperor, his mission proved a fiasco ; he was, however, able a few years later to curb those German archbishops who, in 1786 at the Congress of Ems, had shown a tendency towards independence.

The Hanseatic alliance with Sweden to attack Denmark initially proved a fiasco since Danish forces captured a large Hanseatic fleet, and ransomed it back for an enormous sum.

The attack against Egypt of the Ptolemies proved a fiasco, and the generals sent against Molon and Alexander met with disaster.

Deeply contrary to the traditional way of life in the Mozambican countryside, which was characterised by single-family units scattered in the bush, the land reform based on the aldeias comunais concept soon proved to be a monumental fiasco.

For this purpose, during 1254 – 1255 Przemysł I tried to establish warmer relations with Brandenburg with the betrothal of his eldest daughter Constance with Conrad, son of John I, Margrave of Brandenburg ( the marriage took place after Przemysł I's death, in 1260 ); however, this event proved to be a political fiasco, because thanks to this union, later the House of Ascania claim rights over western Greater Poland.

The promotion again proved to be a fiasco when it was later revealed that he had a heated argument with his stable boss, Tatsunami, and stormed out of the heya, allegedly striking Tatsunami's wife on the way.

The Rockefeller program, which of course proved finally to be a fiasco, was the epitome of the belief in treating a social or medical problem with jail and the billy club.

", proved that Beethoven was not deaf but stupid, and explained why the improbable encounter between the Venus de Milo and Saint Exupéry's ' Petit Prince ' was a fiasco.

The planned State Opening of Parliament proved a fiasco, as only four members of the House of Commons of Southern Ireland and a minority of members of the Senate of Southern Ireland turned up.

This lull proved Jatin's full command of violence as an antidote, contrary to the Chauri Chaura fiasco after him.

After this fiasco, there were successful attempts to turn Caura in to park for aesthetic purposes and this has proved well done.

He proved a most capable general, but while besieging the castle of Solana, he was killed on the 25 September 1496.

During the Siege of Sarajevo, Trebević took on a darker role as its elevations proved ideal positions for besieging artillery and the mountain became a key fighting ground.

After the battle of Ivry he led the king's cavalry in besieging Paris in 1590, and proved his worth at the sieges of Chartres in 1591 and of Rouen in 1592.

Knanaya ships proved to have tactical advantage over the Caliph's fleet during the besieging of Kodungallur.

Foraging to supply such a large static besieging force proved to be extremely difficult.