Sentences with phrase «eventually successful effort»

In 2008, he was an outspoken opponent of Mayor Bloomberg's eventually successful effort to push a term limits extension through the NYC Council, enabling him — and all other city officials facing forced retirement — to seek re-election in 2009.

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If a business leader, teacher or coach is stubborn and refuses to make changes despite evidence that what they're doing is not successful, then their efforts will eventually end in failure.

Such an effort and dedication is eventually rewarded — take a look, for instance, at his entrepreneur's guide, his latest crowdfunding project, and see how successful it was!

Eventually, she'll grow tired when her efforts aren't successful.

Those efforts were successful and David Cameron was eventually elected Tory leader with the full confidence of the voluntary party.

After a moderately successful appearance at the 1936 Olympics and on track to participate in the 1940 Games in Tokyo, Zamperini ended up in the midst of the war effort (not to mention the games were eventually cancelled due to the war), briskly bringing the film back to its present.

The effort was never completely successful, however, and eventually many Winter Solstice customs were incorporated into Christmas observances.

If those efforts are successful, the funds in the account are eventually used to settle the debts.

We're well aware of the connection between these horrific places and the pet stores that sell puppies, and advocates have been successful in efforts like retail bans that will eventually help bring this cruel industry to an end.

If their alarmist efforts are successful, the carbon offsets will become more valuable, and they will sell them before they eventually become worthless.

Although this tactic was successful and popular from the get - go, Jaffe eventually recognized the need to update the effort.