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  • noun Plural form of succession.

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Examples

  • RYAN CHILCOTE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Wolf, a double bombing in the Iraqi capital today, two car bombs going off in short successions, the second car bomb as emergency workers rushed to the scene.

    CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2007 2007

  • Yet covenants before successions is not surely the natural order of civil laws.] 151 Prior examples of testaments are perhaps fabulous.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • In order then to know what the Apostles taught, we must have recourse to the "successions" of bishops throughout the world.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • Many of the pieces of marble in the heap contained ornamentations such as successions of the heart pattern, graceful curve scrolls suggesting leaves, and also regular leaf patterns.

    Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

  • "We must go through successions in evolution in order to achieve the next level of excellence."

    Hong Kong University President to Step Down Jeffrey Ng 2011

  • Several crises resulted in successions of complacencies, lack of courage and... complete disrespect of the Stability Pact.

    Georges Ugeux: The European Crisis Was Predictable and Is Salutary for the Euro Georges Ugeux 2011

  • I see my uncle master of the farm instead of my cousin, and can see in imagination my old neighbours and things just as they were; fixing the memory thus, brings in a strong point of view the quick successions and changes amongst us; for if I had 16 years ago fixt my attention on a flourishing oak, or a whole grove of oaks, the alteration might be disernable, but not striking.

    Letter 5 2009

  • Thinking he was unstoppable, he went ahead with his self – successions plans aided by some of well-known Nigerians, the likes of Daniel Kalu, Chief Femi Aluko that did not mean well for Nigeria.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • • Put an end to successions of booms and busts and finish off inflation once and for all.

    Inside Ron Paul's 'End the Fed' getAbstract 2010

  • After a string of high-profile successions in recent years that have been anything but smooth -- first Bank of America, then HP and now, potentially, AIG (its fifth CEO in five years has cancer and all the board has in place to replace him, if needed, is an interim director?) -- the oracle of Omaha is working his magic on management, too.

    What Warren got right Jena McGregor 2010

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