Example sentences of "his success [prep] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mountbatten 's especial qualification in Attlee 's eyes for the job of viceroy was his success in getting the Burmese nationalists to come in on the British side in the closing stages of the war ; it was Attlee 's firm belief in later life , as indeed it was Mountbatten 's , that if Mountbatten had been left in charge in Rangoon , Burma would never have left the Commonwealth . |
| 2 | Morel , a shipping clerk who had taken up campaigning journalism on behalf of Liverpool 's African merchant interests , set up the Congo Reform Association in 1903 , following his success in persuading the Government to issue a formal protest about the brutal regime of forced labour exercised by the Belgian King , Leopold , in the Congo . |
| 3 | About 1720 Furber had published an engraving of a tulip tree , a magnolia ( then considered another species of tulip tree ) , and a silk cotton tree , all from the garden of Thomas Herbert , eighth Earl of Pembroke [ q.v. ] , and presumably supplied by the nurseryman , who prefaced his tree catalogue with a pleased account of his success in propagating the tulip tree , ‘ notwithstanding some Writers have thought it difficult ’ . |
| 4 | Until after the revolution , his power and influence depended above all on his success in articulating the aspirations of a substantial plebeian constituency in Russia . |
| 5 | Saddam 's War takes us up as far as the back-end of last year , but the core of the book is concerned with Saddam 's rise to power and his success in surviving the Iran-Iraq War and turning Iraq into the most heavily armed state in the Arab world . |
| 6 | His success in winning the confidence of the people in one of Bristol 's poorest areas paradoxically led to his dismissal . |
| 7 | Setting up safe havens for persecuted Moslems would be a re-run of his success in protecting the Kurds in northern Iraq , a move which earned Mr Major world-wide credit . |
| 8 | Hahnemann and his homoeopathy had already gained considerable prestige from his success in treating the typhus epidemic which swept into Europe in the wake of Napoleon 's retreat from Moscow in 1813 . |
| 9 | As a leader , Cade was able to maintain discipline among his men , at least until they reached London , and his success in defeating the force sent against him argues that he possessed some military capacity . |