The quality of a president's leadership is measured first by his success in building up the faculty.

Herodotus had no Athenian victories to record after the initial success, and the fact that Themistocles was able to carry his proposal to devote the surplus funds of the state to the building of so large a fleet seems to imply that the Athenians were themselves convinced that a supreme effort was necessary.

For example, while the behavior of hypersonic flow is understood, building a scramjet aircraft to fly at hypersonic speeds has seen very limited success.

In 1934, Dwane Wallace, with the help of his brother Dwight, took control of the company and began the process of building it into what would become a global success.

The success of the Eindecker kicked off a competitive cycle of improvement among the combatants, building ever more capable single-seat fighters.

This success helped inspire a period of intense canal building, known as Canal Mania.

Adenauer worked diligently at building up contacts and support in the CDU over the next years, and he sought with varying success to impose his particular ideology on the party.

These together provide the foundation for Model Driven Architecture ( MDA ), and related set of standards, building upon the success of UML and MOF.

The model was a success with just over 150, 000 produced ( from 1977-1988 ), and it not only helped to take Porsche out of financial ruin, but created the revenue stream needed to continue building and developing the 911.

Despite the transcontinental success and millions in government subsidies, the Union Pacific faced bankruptcy less than three years after the golden spike as details surfaced about overcharges Crédit Mobilier had billed Union Pacific for the formal building of the railroad.

It should be mentioned that unlike within commercial buildings smart building technologies within peoples homes have been less than an overwhelming success.

Together they gathered Shakers " into order " in their own communities, established the administrative structure that would promote equality of the sexes, and began building the villages that would become the Shakers ' most visible sign of success.

A Land Commission was also established to purchase land for building and therefore prevent profiteering in land values, although it only had limited success.

Financial and disciplinary problems within the club prevented them from building on their success.

He attended elementary school at the Sukagawa Choritsu Dai ' ichi Jinjo Koutou Shogakko beginning in 1908, and two years later, he took up the hobby of building model airplanes, due to the sensational success of Japanese aviators, an interest he would retain for the rest of his life.

The huge success of the hunting expedition caused Father Junípero Serra to consider building a mission in fertile soil San Luis Obispo.

While Jock begins to woo Queenie, Hank is upset that Queenie is building her success on her looks rather than her talent.

* He has two chances, slim and none, and slim just left the building: The player has no chance of success with this play.

In sharing the building with other tenants, such as the highly-popular Los Angeles Lakers, the Clippers, with relatively low success, were often overshadowed by the " Big Brother " Lakers.

When Ford had taken power, it appeared that one key to his success would be building upon the foreign policy successes of President Nixon, his predecessor.

One of the wealthiest men in Europe, he also joined the Sixth Crusade, where he achieved success as a negotiator for the release of prisoners, and assisted with the building of the citadel in Ascalon.

Its success due to: the incorporation of nearby Birmingham and the beginning of iron ore production there ; the building of the Georgia Pacific Railway from Birmingham to Atlanta ; and the construction of a Portland Cement manufacturing plant in 1906.

There are several major pin levels in the model denoting particular level of success in building their IBO business.

Following a group of approximately 200 of the homes constructed in Montauk, New York in 1963 and 1964, the same developer, Herbert Sadkin of the New York-based All-State Properties reprised his success in New York, building a series of similar homes in Florida, calling the development Lauderhill.

That after all his years of effort to become a composer, he should now, now when he was still stoutly replying to the critics of his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, be so close to a success in music and have to reject it.

She was resentful of his easy success as compared with Shelley's failure.

it was always the same unqualified success now.

At the recent horse show convention in New York it was stated that this Intermediate Judging Class is meeting with great success and will be a great help to future judges in the horse world.

So young Prokofieff was the darling of success: in his motherland ; ;

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

At any rate, the substance of Eichmann's testimony was that all his actions flowed from his membership in the party and the SS, and though the Prosecutor did his utmost to prove actual personal hatred of Jews, his success on this score was doubtful and the anti-Semitic lesson weakened to that extent.

Though the slightest yank was frequently capable of producin' results, many men assured success through a turn of the tail 'bout the saddle horn, supplemented sometimes, in the case of cattle, by a downward heave of the rider's leg upon the strainin' tail.

From the start, it was clear that bipartisan support would be essential to success in the war effort, and any manner of compromise alienated factions on both sides of the aisle, such as the appointment of Republicans and Democrats to command positions in the Union Army.

Gelignite was more stable, transportable and conveniently formed to fit into bored holes, like those used in drilling and mining, than the previously used compounds and was adopted as the standard technology for mining in the Age of Engineering bringing Nobel a great amount of financial success, though at a significant cost to his health.

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 ).

Twice I have been struck down with illness just as I was on the point of success.

It was not until the last session of what was the 7th Test ( one match having been abandoned without a ball bowled ) that England's success was secured.

Lawry was sacked after the Sixth Test after the selectors finally lost patience with Australia's lack of success and dour strategy.

Ulfilas ' initial success in converting this Germanic people to an Arian form of Christianity was strengthened by later events.

Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.

After some initial success in his efforts to take possession, Albert was driven from Saxony, and also from his Northern march by Henry, and compelled to take refuge in south Germany.

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.