Meanings of preliminary success in English

But in spite of this preliminary success the doctor predicted an inflammatory fever of the worst kind.

Borrow clearly viewed this as only a preliminary success; he had in mind the eventual printing of the whole Bible.

Despite preliminary success for some LAR systems, a major obstacle limiting the therapeutic effect remains on their interaction with surrounding tissues.

This preliminary success laid the lower plain of Susiana at his mercy, and he ravaged it pitilessly from Baza to Bît-bunaki.