If contemporary reformers hope to be more successful, they might reflect on the ways big money shaped political life a century ago and why their predecessors failed.

By taking such a strong stance today, the Chancellor is trying to reverse a budget-cutting trend that his predecessors have tried but failed to check.

Some of the songs got some attention being featured in telenovelas, but the album, just as its predecessors, failed to gain success.

To begin with, I have succeeded where my predecessors failed.

I am confident that I, as a superior individual, will succeed once more where my incompetent predecessors have failed.

Nor should he be faulted for trying to succeed in areas where his predecessors failed.

It was not a coincidence that Reagan succeeded where his predecessors had failed.

He succeeded where his predecessor had failed, in making a bond with the local community.

For years his predecessors have failed to fix our welfare system, and yet, in a matter of months, he has set out how we will do just that.

His predecessors failed to prevent it, and we the people must be given the basis for understanding why they failed.