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succession

An act of following in sequence. A sequence of things in order. A passing of royal powers. A group of rocks or strata that succeed one another in chronological order.

succession

(= sequence) a following of one thing after another in time the doctor saw a sequence of patients (= sequence) the action of following in order he played the trumps in sequence a group of people or things arranged or following in order a succession of stalls offering soft drinks a succession of failures (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established acquisition of property by descent or by will

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Simple sentences

After a succession of warm days, the weather became cold.
We are writing to inform you that Mr Koichi Ohara has been appointed as Manager of the Technical Department in succession to Mr Taro Iida.
They won the Japan Cup three years in succession.
She had twins three times. I like babies in moderation, but twins three times in succession is too much.
A business cycle is a recurring succession of periods of prosperity and periods of depression.

Movie subtitles

By right of blood succession.
The elder, next in line of succession, is considered in everything.
She moves through a succession of other people's houses, flats and furnished rooms.
That's three nights in succession.
Even Shakespeare couldn't see Hamlet three nights in succession.
I don't know if you realise how close this series of tragedies has brought you to the succession.
We'll close to point-blank range and take them in succession, Mr. Bush.
At the Council meeting, he ardently argued my right to succession.
The council of the kingdom now declare that Aella. is of the true royal line. and welcome his succession to the throne.
The voice is a monotonous succession of scratchy, complaining notes.
The succession is starting rather abruptly.
How can that be, when you have the voice of the king for your succession?
That's an underwater camera. It takes eight pictures in rapid succession by pressing that button.
It is the Act of Succession.
The question of the succession has long been. the subject of my earnest consideration.
I don't believe that destinies are controlled by a throw of dice, but it couldn't have been merely a succession of accidents.
Then Elba, Waterloo followed in quick succession.
The council of the kingdom now declare that Aella is of the true royal line and welcome his succession to the throne.
Never two in succession.
If there are only zeros, it's not a number, but a succession of zeros, which means zero.
The next in legal succession will ascend the throne.
From the sea of Marmara to the Golden Horn, as far as the eye can see, you pass a succession of ruined towers. to the Castle of the Seven Prisons.
Who schemed with John Henry before the war of 1812. For the succession of Massachusetts from the United States. To join her with Canada.
Carl Hubble struck out five heavy hitters in succession at one of the All-Star games.
Numbers rarely come out twice in succession.
Don't you see the dangerous of this succession?
Perhaps some of you new boys are a little bewildered. by the rapid succession of events which has overtaken you since your arrival.
Perhaps time is a spiral, an infinite succession of series that we mix as we please.
So I work 7 days in succession.
I had to explain to him a succession of events.
The Shogun succession ceremony is the day after tomorrow.

News and current affairs

With the bloody wars of the Yugoslav succession still etched deeply in everyone's minds, does Djindjic's assassination herald the end of an era of political violence or the dawn of a new one?
The deaths of Yasir Arafat and of Sheikh Zayd, the long-standing ruler of the United Arab Emirates, continues the generational change that began in 1999-2000, when the leaders of Jordan, Morocco, Bahrain, and Syria died in quick succession.
While the decision by some in favor of dynastic succession may be lacking in democracy, it is not entirely devoid of merit.
Mubarak's succession is being conducted in an especially sophisticated manner.
From the wreckage that has inevitably followed, a succession of new economies has emerged.
The EU's malaise is self-inflicted, owing to an unprecedented succession of bad economic decisions, beginning with the creation of the euro.
The breakdown in relations has been gradual and undramatic - more a morose and resentful refusal to see each other's point of view than a succession of rows.
And some analysts in Seoul believe that a dicey political succession in Pyongyang, combined with food shortages in the countryside, could prove too much for the North Korean regime to handle.
Uncertainty about whether these deficits can be financed is one reason why the world economy, under current arrangements, faced a succession of crises in recent years.
The old centralized political structure built around Nehru's Congress Party collapsed in the mid-1990s, giving way to a succession of weak multi-party governments.
The entire Bush administration has been a succession of leadership failures, so why harp on its poor financial management?
A succession of monopolists would lead, in this view, to higher standards of living in the long run.
More recently, with the death last December of the Emir, Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad, parliamentary approval was exercised a key role in resolving succession debates among factions of the royal family.
However, with Sheikh Jaber al-Sabah's death, the succession was not only subjected to feverish public debate, but the Kuwaiti press and Parliament were key actors in determining the outcome.
The second notorious weakness of family businesses is the problem of succession.
In old-style family firms, there is a clear rule of succession that the oldest son takes over.
Such succession disputes become even more acute when there are multiple marriages and multiple sets of competing children.
A successful long-term strategy cannot be seen as a succession of short-term fixes.
Ordinary North Koreans, too, evidently seem to view this succession differently from that of Kim Jong-il's inheritance of power from his father, Kim Il-sung.
Syria has already sought to assure regime continuity through quasi-monarchic hereditary succession with the move from Hafez al-Assad to his son Bashar.
The centrality of hereditary succession in the quest for peace and stability was shown by Hafez al-Assad when he agreed to unprecedented good will gestures aimed at drawing Ehud Barak's Israeli government into a peace deal.
The last of the revolutionary generation, President Abdulaziz Buteflika must still conceive a succession that ends his country's civil war.
But, as countries like Egypt, Syria, and Lybia might be indicating, hereditary succession is not an inherently reactionary move.
Yet a long succession of presidents failed to solve the paradox.
As products of revolutionary military takeovers, these secular nationalist regimes failed to produce genuine popular legitimacy and have had to fall back on the dynastic succession practiced by the regimes they toppled.
Is dynastic succession becoming the norm throughout Asia?
Again, dynastic succession does not ensure success.
President Hu Jintao will step down in 2013, but will continue to hold his post on the all-important Central Military Commission until a complete succession is completed, also around 2015.

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