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Example sentences for: succeeds

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The novel is an unabashed attempt to capitalize on the hype surrounding the handover, but it succeeds by steadfastly refusing to indulge in majesty.
Where $20 Million succeeds is as a character study.
But while Eleanor's agenda looks separatist--women-only press conferences, an attempt to avert World War II through a Lysistrata -style "women's strike for peace"--it also succeeds in grafting onto Roosevelt's coalition new blocs of the hitherto-disenfranchised without which the New Deal would be impracticable.
Yankee Talk works hard at being both, but succeeds better at the second aim than the first, giving out a passel (indefinite number) of entertainment and a gorm (gooey mess) of misinformation.
Before the group succeeds in reaching him, an assassin shoots the racist Sunraider from the Senate gallery.