11.   Prompted by Parker, Mrs. Hart described the first steps and small triumphs in her fledgling show-business career.

12.   Some observers, notably my colleague Eileen McNamara, interpret this as a small triumph for feminism.

13.   The reader, knowing the outcome, is even more fascinated by their journeys, their defeats, their small triumphs, their falling out, their coming together.

14.   But numerous villages are marking small triumphs across the devastated province, reopening war-damaged schools as they move to restore some normalcy to shattered lives.

15.   But numerous villages are marking small triumphs across the devastated region, re-opening war-damaged schools as they try to restore some normalcy to shattered lives.

16.   The ruling was seen as a small triumph for women in Japan who are increasingly turning away from their traditional roles subordinate to the men they marry.

17.   But even that small triumph turned into embarrassment for Devon Malcolm, whose comeback is proving mighty painful.