It has successfully absorbed 700,000 new immigrants in five years.

Other brands, such as Dimple, Black & white, VAT 69, the Classic Malts, Tanqueray gin and Pommery champagne, have now been successfully absorbed into the Asbach sales portfolio.

By the mid-1960s, Shaw had successfully absorbed the concepts and influence of his mentor and friend, saxophonist Eric Dolphy (Iron Man, 1963), and was meanwhile exploring the harmonic innovations of John Coltrane.

This is a nation that has successfully absorbed millions of immigrants without creating a huge bureaucracy or spending tens of millions of dollars to teach them in the languages of their ancestors.

For example, if a programme successfully absorbed a cash limit squeeze in one year by increased efficiency, this expenditure saving was not carried forward into future plans.

In 2007, dozens of immigrant families were still living there in caravans and various aid organizations were working to alleviate the financial distress of families that had not been successfully absorbed in Israeli society.

(Actually, this is probably not a good story to tell two little boys who have successfully absorbed the fear of God on the question of stepping off the curb unescorted.)

Their plight has taken some of the luster from the excitement generally associated with the arrivals from Ethiopia, many of whom have been absorbed successfully into Israeli life, especially those who came on an earlier airlift in 1984.

It's quite obvious the group has successfully absorbed this experience.

In the high-yield "junk bond" market, concerns were eased last week as $4 billion worth of securities to finance the buyout of RJR Nabisco were successfully absorbed.