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successive English
Meaning successive meaning
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Simple sentences
It rained five successive days.
It is hard to win four successive games.
He won four successive world championships.
Movie subtitles
The King shall drink to Hamlet's better breath, and in the cup a jewel shall he throw, richer than that which four successive kings in Denmark's crown have worn.
The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath, and in the cup an union shall he throw, richer than that which four successive kings in Denmark's crown have worn.
According to Hindu belief, based on successive reincarnations of the Self, life is only a stage, a passage, a brief moment in a cosmic cycle.
What I mean is that. if you lay successive numbers of bums on this crowd, by the time 6:00 comes around, they're gonna be in a real mood.
But Eve is so tired by the successive trials of the course that she weakens again.
After winning his third successive Grand Prix.
He has had four successive attacks, and the doctor told me that the next could be fatal.
Each successive civilization has left its mark.
Successive mergers cause a great deal of upheaval.
Our forces have had some successive victories.
There was a huge deserted beach, with small successive waves coming from the sea, far away.
It was always the same beach with fine sand, with successive and regular waves, one at the time.
The transports will go in 3 trains on 3 successive days.
Both a trial and a retrial for sentencing as well as many appeals to state and federal courts and successive petitions filed by Mr. Barber.
And at each successive stop thereafter, nobody got off or on until the train reached its next to the last stop where five people got off and one got on.
The photochemical action transforms the cellular structure in successive mutations.
The institute has adapted this device into a structure where each successive image of the 121 images is one frame longer than its predecessor.
Thanks to the VUE, Vyanine was a speaker of Ipostan, suffered intestinal blockages, was allergic to the house-dust mite and had an incurable desire to stay in a different place every night and never to eat two successive meals at the same table.
Sir, the one responsible for our successive failures..
This is a temperature chart of greater Metropolis. taken over successive days.
The truth is that, while we Welsh like to believe that it was the mountains that beat the successive invaders it was, really, the weather that comes with mountains.
The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath and in the cup an union shall he throw richer than that which four successive kings in Denmark's crown have worn.
We compare binaries in successive pairs of pictures until we find a difference.
It evaded the successive sweeps of the Maritime Safety Bureau. and drifted into Tokyo Bay?
So I have my place, my successive stages and an old tower I will Transform into a luminous fountain.
Two counter-question, successive.
This is the third successive weekend ofviolence in Belfast.
That's why even with the largest telescope in the world it was necessary to take very long time exposures often lasting all night and sometimes requiring several successive nights.
The answer is about 90 successive cuts.
The higher functions of the brain have evolved in three successive stages according to a provocative insight by the American biologist Paul MacLean.
The city, like the brain has evolved in successive stages.
Ancient learning might be revered but in successive retellings, it would become muddled and then lost.
Anxiety over successive fires is increasing among the residents.
At first by Wotan and the Norns, and subsequently by successive generations of watching deities.
All of us linked togheter with successive navelcords.
There's been progress with each successive test.
Future Prime Minister. Elected for three successive terms.
News and current affairs
Such successive downward forecast revisions have become commonplace.
Successive generations of post-war European political leaders initiated the European Union and then currency union in order to knit countries so closely together that another major war between them would become impossible.
Dr. Khan's export of centrifuge technology was unknown to successive governments in Pakistan, says the country's leader, General Pervez Musharraf.
Tony Blair has achieved a remarkable third successive electoral victory.
Since 1990, successive mayors promised to tackle the problem of these hundreds of thousands of feral dogs.
At the same time, we can expect a growing Atlantic community as successive rounds of trade liberalization make it easier to develop a free-trade area between the EU and the United States.
The Great Leap Forward had aspects of a Ponzi scheme, an investment fraud which attempts to draw in successive rounds of investors through word-of-mouth tales of outsize returns.
Successive French presidents have declared that France will not accept a United States of Europe as even a remote goal of European politics.
Puerto Rico is not Greece; successive governors of the island have introduced budgets they thought were balanced, only to find that inadequate growth led to lower revenues and higher expenditures than had been projected.
Mubarak should also endorse a limit of no more than two successive five-year terms for any president.
Still, America does play a large role on the world stage; and in many parts of the Muslim world, particularly in the Arab world, successive US administrations--Republican and Democratic alike--have not made democratization a priority.
But we can't, instead what is offered is a hollow vision of the common good that consists merely in successive rounds of cuts in state expenditures.
But all successive waves of enlargement were motivated mostly, if not exclusively, by political reasons.
Having faced successive contamination crises in recent years--first BSE and then hoof and mouth disease--we feel particularly insecure about food.
In retrospect, three successive British prime ministers - Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron - were on overly familiar terms with a manipulative business leader.
Third, successive governments widened the ethnic divide through catastrophically predatory governance.
The discovery is the result of a strategic policy maintained through successive Brazilian administrations, something unusual in Latin America.
Since the advent of army rule in 1958, successive regimes have terrorized Iraqis into submission and bled the country white through their military misadventures.
Successive governments across central and eastern Europe are responsible for a systemic failure to provide adequate support to families with disabled children, often resulting in abandonment and institutionalization.
It has been the same in France, which has been built by successive waves of immigrants.
During the heyday of Irish terrorism in the UK, successive British governments went out of their way not to concede to the IRA the notion that a war was being waged.
The full extent of the French system's pathology becomes fully clear in the light of successive governments' attempts at reform, with piecemeal measures the norm - and thus proving counter-productive on balance, or failing altogether.