* The Spade is a French design which has proved successful since 1996.

The agreement proved immensely successful, and relations with the Avars were almost uninterruptedly friendly during the lifetime of the Lombard Kingdom.

The tank proved highly successful, and as technology improved the tank became a weapon that could cross large distances at much higher speeds than supporting infantry and artillery.

This proved highly successful, even without training, and the concept was widely used in the 21st Army Group.

It proved no more successful, however, as only bishops from the West and Egypt bothered to appear.

Late in 2010, some Congressmen ( after the four-day Bicentennial holiday was proved successful ) asked for a law that would forbid the opening of supermarkets and department stores on Sundays, however retailers claimed that Sunday shopping made about 20 % of their weekly sales, more than other day of the week, thus preventing the law from taking place.

The fiscal discipline set by Finance Minister Djankov proved successful and together with reduced budget spending it placed Bulgarian economy on the stage of steadily though slowly growing in the mids of world crisis.

After the glittering decade of the 1950s, the first tour of the 1960s proved not nearly as successful as previous ones.

Realizing that iron was more difficult to pierce with breech-loaded cannon, Armstrong designed rifled muzzle-loading guns, which proved successful ; The Times reported: " even the fondest believers in the invulnerability of our present ironclads were obliged to confess that against such artillery, at such ranges, their plates and sides were almost as penetrable as wooden ships.

The Enquiry proved little more successful than the Treatise.

The Charity School proved somewhat successful, but additional funding was necessary to continue school ’ s operations, and Wheelock sought the help of friends to raise money.

This semi-automated signaling and switching proved successful in both speed and cost effectiveness.

In March 2008 Rosa suffered a severe retinal detachment and underwent emergency eye surgery that ultimately proved to be not completely successful.

Some units of the U. S. Marine Corps Raiders in the Pacific were issued a similar fighting dagger, the Marine Raider Stiletto., though the design proved less than successful when used in the type of knife combat encountered in the Pacific theater.

In Imperial Japan, the left-wing of the Japanese Esperanto movement was persecuted, but its leaders were careful enough not to give the impression to the government that the Esperantists were revolutionaries, which proved a successful strategy.

This quantum picture of the electromagnetic field ( which treats it as analogous to harmonic oscillators ) has proved very successful, giving rise to quantum electrodynamics, a quantum field theory describing the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with charged matter.

Since the early twentieth century, quantum theory has proved to be successful in describing accurately the physical reality of the mesoscopic and microscopic world, in multiple reproducible physics experiments.

These studies have proved to be even more successful than Rhine's forced-choice paradigm, with meta-analyses evidencing reliable effects, and many confirmatory replication studies.

LaGuardia proved successful in shutting down the burlesque theaters, whose naughty shows offended his puritanical sensibilities.

" Nonetheless, it proved highly successful, and is still regularly performed today.

Structural adjustment agreements with the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and other international financial institutions aiming at creating necessary conditions for private sector growth, have proved only partly successful.

The Others ( 2001 ) proved to be a successful example of psychological horror film.

It proved to be a commercially successful genre and a more mainstream pop-based variation grew increasingly popular.

Aeroponic techniques have proved to be commercially successful for propagation, seed germination, seed potato production, tomato production, leaf crops, and micro-greens.

The store proved successful and operated for three years after which it was closed so that Warren could pursue establishing colonies based on mutualism.

but on further investigation, the thing proved to be a sweater, of the long-hair variety that sheds onto men's jackets -- pale, pale pink and, according to the label, size thirty-four.

Results were unsatisfactory, Wilkinson mail worn by the Khedive of Egypt's regiment of " Iron Men " was manufactured from split rings which proved to be too brittle, the rings would fragment when struck by bullets and further aggravate the damage.

Groups of rank at least 3 are further subdivided into 3 classes by the trichotomy theorem, proved by Aschbacher for rank 3 and by Gorenstein and Lyons for rank at least 4.

" When the bodies proved to have been discovered near where Aaron indicated, Bray asked Aaron for further details, and Aaron claimed that he had witnessed the murders committed by Satanists who spoke Spanish.

The efforts of the two did much to further electrical engineering — Tesla's work on induction motors and polyphase systems influenced the field for years to come, while Edison's work on telegraphy and his development of the stock ticker proved lucrative for his company, which ultimately became General Electric.

The atomic clocks offered a further secondary realization of ET, on a quasi-real time basis that soon proved to be more useful than the primary ET standard: not only more convenient, but also more precisely uniform than the primary standard itself.

His reputation swelled further with the 1936 Summer Olympics, which were held in the same year in Berlin, and which proved another great propaganda success for the regime as orchestrated by master propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

The currents at Cranstal proved too strong, and in 1864 the cable was taken up and relaid further south, at Port-e-Vullen in Ramsey Bay.

The existing Portuguese interests in Asia proved sufficient to finance further colonial expansion and entrenchment in areas regarded as of greater strategic importance in Africa and Brazil.

Arising in Roman courts, this principle meant that if a witness was proved false in some parts of his testimony, any further statements were also regarded as false unless they were independently corroborated.

The battle proved indecisive, but it did ensure that the Norse were not able to mount a further attack that year.

Since the losses from yellow fever in the Spanish – American War in the 1890s were thirteenfold higher than the losses due to military operations, further experiments were conducted by a team under Walter Reed, composed of doctors James Carroll, Aristides Agramonte, and Jesse William Lazear, that successfully proved the ″ Mosquito Hypothesis ″.

Surprisingly, this leniency worked to good effect ; hereafter, the Provençals proved staunch supporters of Charles, providing money and troops for his further conquests.

Lister was able to quickly reduce infection rates, a reduction that was further helped by his subsequent introduction of the techniques of Robert Koch ( such as the Steam Steriliser, which proved more successful than the carbolic acid spray that Lister had been using previously ) to sterilize equipment, have rigorous hand washing and a later implementation of rubber gloves.

Elsewhere, however, there is still a further question to reconcile – one that has proved very difficult and problematic over time, going all the way back to the Gemara:

On arriving my premonition proved correct: there was no need to seek further.

Brook's vision of the play proved influential, and directors have gone further in presenting Lear as ( in the words of R. A. Foakes ) " a pathetic senior citizen trapped in a violent and hostile environment ".

A fully mechanical system saw limited automobile use in the 1960s in the Ferguson P99 racing car, the Jensen FF, and the experimental all wheel drive Ford Zodiac, but saw no further use ; the system proved expensive and unreliable.

During the beginning of 1985, the band was given $ 8, 000 by Combat Records to record and produce their debut album, but this proved to not be enough and so the band were given a further $ 4, 000.

Most of the social and economic goals announced at the eighth Congress had been reached ; however, the absence of a definitive statement on further efforts to improve the working and living conditions of the population proved to be a source of concern.

But this proved unsustainable and it consequently shrank by 8. 30 % in the Eighties and a further 5. 20 % in the Nineties.

Burton, who had been recovering from illness at the time and resting further south on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, was outraged that Speke claimed to have proved his discovery to have been the true source of the Nile, which Burton regarded as still unsettled.

Despite lacking four wheel drive, a mainstay of the American military Jeeps, the vehicle proved very competent at maneuvering its way over rough terrain, even in a direct comparison with a contemporary standard German army 4 × 4, and the project was given the green light for further development.

They lost their Navarre seat in the 1989 election and lost a further 2 seats in the 1996 election, which overall proved to be the party's worst performance in terms of vote share.