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How to use the word succeeded in a Sentence? Page #3

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Rather than creating a common front to address widely held concerns about China's trading and economic practices, Trump has succeeded in alienating key U.S. allies and undercutting broader external pressure on China.

Eswar Prasad

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Today, birds are the most diverse and globally widespread group of terrestrial vertebrate animals -- there are nearly 11,000 living species, only a handful of ancestral bird lineages succeeded in surviving the mass extinction event 66 million years ago, and all of today's amazing living bird diversity can be traced to these ancient survivors.

Daniel Field

Found on CNN
5 years ago

All of us wanted to send a message that the law can work fast, and we succeeded.

Police Inspector Shivpal Singh Kushwah

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There's a political message when HEC students are not going into finance or marketing but into entrepreneurship, you haven't succeeded in life unless you've started a company.

Olivier Millet

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

They had an image of her as a witch, someone who was subhuman or nonhuman, they were made to hate her, so, now that they're seeing a human being they just don't know what to do. I think The Daphne Project has succeeded in that objective at least, and also because the journalists are taking up her investigations, that feels like a taste of justice.

Matthew Caruana Galizia

Found on CNN
6 years ago

There is no answer to the Assad problem just yet, assad has succeeded, at least for the foreseeable future, and he is capitalizing on that.

Firas Maksad

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

He succeeded in biting on the dog, but it didn’t have the same effect as the dog biting on him.

Boscawen Police Lt. Jason Killary

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

America is and has been home to Dreamers who courageously came forward, applied for DACA and did everything the federal government asked of them, they followed DACA’s rules, they succeeded in school, at work and in business, and they have contributed in building a better America.

Xavier Becerra

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

Dr. Dale E. Turner

added by anonymous
6 years ago

I do understand their concern, i wish their concern had been reserved to the night of the premiere, on HBO, on Sunday night, when they watched an hour of television as to whether or not we succeeded in what we set out to do.

Nichelle Tramble Spellman

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It is a tremendous honor and privilege for any university to host a sitting US President, and we are incredibly grateful to have President Trump be a part of this historic day, this May, Liberty students will have the honor of hearing from a man who has succeeded in business and in politics, defying conventional wisdom to become the 45th President of the United States.

Falwell Jr.

Found on CNN
7 years ago

He has spent his whole life bulls**tting, he has succeeded by bulls**tting. He has gotten the presidency by bulls**tting. It's very hard to tell somebody at that point that bulls**t doesn't work. Because look at the results. He sees something, he doesn't particularly care if it's true or not, he just put it out there.

Fareed Zakaria

Found on CNN
7 years ago

In our quest to know life, we have only succeeded in going farther away from our self! Fortunately, to come back home, only one way exists - BEING IN THE NOW!

Ramana Pemmaraju

added by Ramana Pemmaraju
7 years ago

It is a grim anniversary…It is hard not to assess that they have succeeded in bolstering the regime.

Mark Toner

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I spent the rest of my career trying to redeem Brett Favre and make him proud. I hope I succeeded.

Brett Favre

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

You are watching this video because I have either been arrested or I have been abducted, maybe we shall see each other again. Maybe we shall never see each other again. And maybe we succeeded, or maybe we failed. Whatever the case, you and I have stood to build Zimbabwe.

Evan Mawarire

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I’ve invested in just a few [ young entrepreneurs ] so far, and 80 percent have succeeded to date. Your Customers set reasonable goals and go for it. Unlike adults who try to get rich and retire, [ kids ] are trying to make some money and learn.

Billionaire Mark Cuban

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We went into Afghanistan to make it more peaceful, and so far we haven't succeeded.

James Dobbins

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

They [LGBT activists] are shrewd, they are very well organized and they are unified – which is something the Church is not, the Church is not unified. Therefore, the church fights piecemeal battles rather than doing what the LGBT community did in my case. They came together and launched a major attack and they succeeded.

General Boykin

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The truth of that narrative is evidently of secondary importance, as the article exposed how the White House manipulated and, in some cases, manufactured facts to sell the reckless Iran nuclear deal to the American people as a prelude to large-scale disengagement from the Middle East, president Obama has taken great pains to set himself apart from his predecessor. He has succeeded in at least one respect by failing to find the courage to challenge his own assumptions, admit mistakes, and chart a better course.

John McCain

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I was in China 70 days last year and 100 times a day someone would say 'Travis, no Internet technology company has ever succeeded. I don't know if you should be here', as an entrepreneur, that's the best thing you can hear ... you're always turning it into the positive, and trying to make the impossible possible is what we do. Adventure with a purpose is what we do.

Chief Executive Travis Kalanick

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Aedes Aegypti didn't exist in the Americas until the 16th century. That mosquito was brought from Africa to the Americas and it succeeded in colonizing in the South.

John McNeill

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The fall in markets is stemming from worries about China, oil and so on. And now people think policymakers will try to stop that with monetary easing, the problem is that monetary easing has succeeded in supporting financial markets but not necessarily the real economy.

Koichi Yoshikawa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The fall in markets is stemming from worries about China, oil and so on. And now people think policy makers will try to stop that with monetary easing, the problem is that monetary easing has succeeded in supporting financial market but not necessarily the real economy.

Koichi Yoshikawa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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