As a means of preventing tooth decay in those cities that do fluoridate, the practice certainly looks like a success.
The grim instability of shelter life is hardly a recipe for success under the best of circumstances.
When you think about all of that, the success of this Comeback run is all the more impressive.
Of course, this is The Comeback, and so "success" is a relative word.
Lee explains the success of its store-within-a-store strategy, particularly as regarding Samsung.
I ventured to predict that success awaited him in the rubber business.
That one example, moreover, has been a success as unqualified as undeniable.
They tried it out at home and when it proved a success, they carried it abroad.
She was properly presented; but as yet she has had no success at all.'
"Frankly, your success is by no means complete," replied she.
1530s, "result, outcome," from Latin successus "an advance, succession, happy outcome," from succedere "come after" (see succeed). Meaning "accomplishment of desired end" (good success) first recorded 1580s.
The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That -- with the squalid interpretation put on the word success -- is our national disease. [William James to H.G. Wells, Sept. 11, 1906]Success story is attested from 1925. Among the French phrases used in English late 19c. were succès d'estime "cordial reception given to a literary work out of respect rather than admiration" and succès de scandale "success (especially of a work of art) dependent upon its scandalous character."
