How To Use Succeeding In A Sentence

Since the dangers of passive smoking have been highlighted and smoking is becoming regarded as socially unacceptable, that is, deviant behaviour, many more people are trying to stop, and succeeding.
For the three succeeding years, until the spring of 1879, the town grew steadily but slowly.
She tried to duck out of his grip, half-succeeding, and he went off-balance.
The recipe is modified and simplified by succeeding generations of cooks.
After succeeding in the lab, he began a test in a greenhouse to see if the genetically modified cotton plant would survive and pass on its new trait.

The succeeding days were devoted to a general reconnaissance of the place; but I must say that Roustchouk, although capital of the pashalic of Silistria, and containing thirty or forty thousand inhabitants, pleased me less than any town of its size that I had seen in the East. Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.
The meat at the base of the neck was "basted" with chambira, to prevent its wearing and wasting away by handling in the succeeding operations. Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure
Now a retour is a writ returned from the Court of Attorney, testifying the service of every succeeding heir; and is therefore an unexceptionable evidence of paying his predecessor's debts, and of performing his obligations and deeds. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.
However, I don’t think either his jewish background or extratemporal standing (SJ’s GS13 Liberal Democrat Federal Employee Best Friend notwithstanding) would stand in the way of his succeeding to the presidency in a crisis. Cheeseburger Gothic » And now, Gentlemen, down to business.
The pumping speed is predicted according to the vacuum-pumping program, and it is very instructive and meaningful for choosing the vacuum pump in the succeeding phase.
There are heavy odds against people succeeding in such a bad economic climate.
The twelve houses are divided into cardinal houses, also called anguli, succeeding houses (succedentes, anaphora) and declining or cadent houses (cadentes, cataphora). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
In truth, the gamble in bringing Doyen back against an instinct to keep him for another season never looked like succeeding.
Catherine of Siena enshrined in the artistic golden sarcophagus which has been admired by succeeding generations of her clients.
Chastity bent down to tie her shoelace, and after succeeding in making it into a perfect bow, she looked up and examined the locker room.
This exotic combination is followed by a complete contrast of sound in the succeeding galliard, or Gailliarde as it is spelt in the score.
The settlor may designate whomsoever he wishes and vest in that person the power to appoint succeeding trustees, though sometimes the power is placed with the cestui que trust and sometimes with the settlor. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
We, however, have followed the Twelve Tables in this department of law, and adhered to their principles: and, while we commend the praetors for their sense of equity, we cannot hold that their remedy was adequate; for when the degree of natural relationship was the same, and when the civil title of agnation was conferred by the older law on males and females alike, why should males be allowed to succeed all their agnates, and women (except sisters) be debarred from succeeding any? The Institutes of Justinian
Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
In rocketry, motors are designated with letters, and each succeeding letter is twice as big as the one before it.
The clover may be pastured the following year, but in the year succeeding that, it is allowed to grow unchecked until August, when it is plowed in, the ground again guanoed, and wheat sown with herd's-grass (red-top) and clover, which is to remain, for mowing and pasture, as long as the ground will profitably sustain it. A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy
Higher in the Sheinwoodian Slite Group and in the superjacent Homerian Mulde Formation, morphotype C appears which has a distinctly enlarged first denticle succeeding the fang.
The nest is used in succeeding years by many other species, e.g., owls.
Helen was right on the brink, as close as one could possibly get to succeeding.
They realise there is something called succeeding and honouring both assets and liabilities. Times, Sunday Times
The pumping speed is predicted according to the vacuum-pumping program, and it is very instructive and meaningful for choosing the vacuum pump in the succeeding phase.
The brain of a fish is very small, compared with the spinal cord into which it is continued, and with the nerves which come off from it: of the segments of which it is composed — the olfactory lobes, the cerebral hemisphere, and the succeeding divisions — no one predominates so much over the rest as to obscure or cover them; and the so-called optic lobes are, frequently, the largest masses of all. Essays
And the fact that he was succeeding in doing things differently was clear from the way he won the trust of the horse. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
There are many variables that should be considered in predicting the chances that a matador has for succeeding in the immediate future, besides the ranking of matadors by the number of corridas fought and trophies obtained.
Poignant and never sentimental, this elegant memoir recalls how a family adapted and reorganized itself over and over, enduring and succeeding to remain kindred in spite of living apart. Brother, I'm Dying: Summary and book reviews of Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat.
Hermione's personality was so strong, so aboundingly vital, that its withdrawal made an impression such as that made by an intense silence suddenly succeeding a powerful burst of music. The Call of the Blood
He has succeeding in "seeling" his moral vision — sewing his eyelids shut, as falconers did to tame their jittery birds — so that even the most spectacular signs and wonders leave him indifferent. In the Night Kitchen
He speaks of remorse/[Page xxviii]/for not succeeding better in his work, remorse for idleness when he was resting: of his lecturing he says: "my sorrow in delivery was less, my remorse after delivery was much greater"; and when writing the 'Jane Welsh Carlyle' paper, being interrupted by Froude, he says: "Froude is now coming, and with remorse New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
Do you believe that right now there are people in this world trying to weaponize smallpox and other viruses, and succeeding?
Succeeding at something almost always means tons of hard work and dedication, but look at the reward - an unshakable feeling of utterly ecstatic joy.
He therefore influenced all succeeding generations of archaeologists whose interests centred on the Roman period, especially the Roman villa.
Richards were received at the time with a certain amount of surprise, but they have been superabundantly confirmed by tests applied by succeeding investigators. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1914 - Presentation
And we shall assuredly not be without witnesses; there are mighty monuments of our power which will make us the wonder of this and of succeeding ages; we shall not need the praises of Homer or of any other panegyrist whose poetry may please for the moment,26 although his representation of the facts will not bear the light of day. The History of the Peloponnesian War
The darkly resonant tones of the lower strings in the opening Largo were a prelude to the precise, crisp attack of the violins in the succeeding Allegro molto.
Of those retailers that are succeeding in the current climate, a great many of them fall under the category of "masstige" brands and products that have high-end, prestigious characteristics but with prices and locations that make them accessible to a mass consumer audience.
For this an extreme degree of impudence is required, but experience shows cases of it succeeding.
There are heavy odds against people succeeding in such a bad economic climate.
Rheumatism in childhood is not manifested by acute and short-lived attacks of great severity so much as by a long-continued succession of symptoms of a subacute nature, a transient arthritis, perhaps, succeeding an attack of sore throat with torticollis, to be followed by carditis, to be followed again by another attack of tonsillitis. The Nervous Child
He frequently made numerous changes as he progressed, preserved in the succeeding states of the print.
In this process, liquids are diluted (with water or ethanol) and shaken by ten hard strikes against an elastic body ( "succussion"), to get the next, succeeding higher potency. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Table 1 illustrates the principal governing legacies in the evolution of economic thinking, and their filiation through succeeding generations.
Would not the antiquaries of succeeding centuries rightly reason from our past that we were a heathen nation? Berlinski's Wisdom
Consequently, His Honour Judge Tetlow was correct, in my judgment, that what he had to assess was the chance of the respondent succeeding on his counterclaim.
You are a disgrace to Obama and are only succeeding in fracturing the Dems even more. Heavy turnout reported, few problems seen
But a spectator can hold only so much in memory and is unlikely to retain more than the first three rounds; the succeeding material begins to blur.
What sorts of new plant strains are succeeding?
And the fact that he was succeeding in doing things differently was clear from the way he won the trust of the horse. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
Cashflow forecasts, which normally cover 12 month periods, should be prepared for the succeeding two to three years.
LUI: Steinunn is succeeding by promoting her label online and showing her clothes in Paris, Copenhagen, and New York, but she is staying true to her understated Nordic style. CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2009
His view of a mighty power fighting a lost cause for all the wrong reasons would be validated by the succeeding decade.
Raw echinus (“kier-bang”), saline and tonic, would clear the palate for succeeding delicacies. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
'prehistoric' site at Tell el-Ma'abed or Tell el-'Obeid near Ur. It seems that these antiquities date from the very end of the neolithic, or rather to the succeeding 'chalcolithic', age; whether they are really prehistoric, as regards Babylonian history, must until more evidence from stratified deposits is found remain undecided. How to Observe in Archaeology
And similarly among the Romans, the Rutilii, and Galbæ, and Scauri, men of eminent reputation for purity of life and manners, and for frugality; and in the succeeding generations, many men of censorian and consular rank, and even many who had celebrated triumphs, such as the The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens
I suppose few novels, succeeding not by scandal, have ever been much more popular than the _Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre_, the title of which good English folk have been known slightly to alter in meaning by putting the _pauvre_ before the _jeune_. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
The succeeding positive slope arises due to the orientation of the headgroup dipoles.
Doing that would be obviously foolish, but listening to other thoughts is an integral part to succeeding as a business. Listening to users is bad… « The Paradigm Shift
Blues Suite has changed over the years in structure, content and the ways succeeding generations of dancers perform it.
The divisions were less ethnic than regional and political in character, but grew more rather than less intense with succeeding stages of conflict.
She will constantly remind you that succeeding in those relationships is far more important than making a million bucks.
His appeal has extended far beyond the British Isles, and to four succeeding generations; it outlasted both the author and the British Empire of which his family was an archetypal product.
King Sihamoni, 51, a former ballet dancer, ascended the throne Friday, succeeding his father who suddenly abdicated earlier this month.
If you come from a nonaffluent background, succeeding in college takes special effort. I'm Counting Every Penny
In comments to reporters on Thursday, McCain asserted that I can tell you that it is succeeding. Balloon Juice » 2008 » May
In succeeding years, the government adopts a cabinet system, a bicameral parliament, and focuses the economy on industrialization.
The baby is just not succeeding at growing and meeting what we call developmental milestones. CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2007
The captain fizzed an attempt just wide in his desperation for parity, his industry succeeding at times in masking the sloppiness of his team-mates in possession. West Ham United spring to life to overrun Stoke City in extra-time
In 1713 he had become maestro di cappella to the Marchese Stella, succeeding Alessandro Scarlatti, and organist of the viceroyal chapel.
The twelve houses are divided into cardinal houses, also called anguli, succeeding houses (succedentes, anaphora) and declining or cadent houses (cadentes, cataphora). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
Even the introductory toccata-flourishes are at moderate speed and relatively sober in mien: while the succeeding fugato, though marked allegro, is in four severely interlocked parts that generate often acute dissonances.
Problems with childcare remain the biggest barrier to women succeeding at work.
But accouple these words with the succeeding actions, -- "You dastard! Public Speaking
It is perfectly obvious that in any decent occupation (such as bricklaying or writing books) there are only two ways (in any special sense) of succeeding. G.K. Speaks - The Fallacy of Success
Through the 1920s and 1930s, images of Caroline and her sisters, first as bob-haired demigoddesses, later as soda-sipping bobby-soxers in saddle shoes, helped to define the succeeding eras of boom and bust.
If we wanted to be sure of succeeding with the big ventures, we would have to act rapidly and ensure early on that we had given ourselves enough room for manoeuvre.
The Pentagon is not succeeding in degrading the Taliban's military capacity. Robert Naiman: Is the Pentagon Deliberately "Degrading" Afghanistan's Capacity for Peace?
Devotion to the Muses, that wiser Princes Patron the Arts, and carry an indulgent aspect unto Scholars; but a desire to have their names eternized by the memory of their writings, and a fear of the revengeful Pen of succeeding ages; for these are the men, that, when they have played their parts, and had their exits, must step out and give the moral of their Religio Medici
The succeeding section deals with the crucial issue of capital controls.
In the succeeding 400 years, there have been attempts to resuscitate the Venezuelan pearl industry, but most such endeavors have proved unsuccessful.
Succeeding at something almost always means tons of hard work and dedication, but look at the reward - an unshakable feeling of utterly ecstatic joy.
That is the theme of the succeeding three or four pages.
The key to understanding and succeeding in negotiations lies in greater awareness of the limitations in individual cognitions.
It was always slipping forward or backward, and as I was heavier than the Malay lad, I was always slipping down and trying to wriggle myself up on the great ridge which was the creature's backbone, and always failing, and the mahout was always stopping and pulling the rattan ropes which bound the whole arrangement together, but never succeeding in improving it. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
Jay L.. Johnson as the new chief of naval operations, succeeding Adm.
Then again, maybe I'm just thinking too much about the entire thing and succeeding only in thinking myself into knots.
At length the matter was taken up seriously, and the editors explained that Mr. Hamilton, on succeeding his brother-in-law, had kept up the old title; so that Robert-Houdin was a term equally applicable to the performer and to the style of performance. Memoirs of Robert-Houdin
Shelley, however, did not despair of succeeding in making Byron some day give up what he termed his philosophical errors, and his persistency earned for him the appellation of "serpent" which Byron gave him in jest. Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English
Do these remnants pledged to eternal verities have any prospect of succeeding with contemporary children?
When the consolidated sediments are by these and by succeeding movements forced upwards into mountains, they are exposed to denudative effects greatly exceeding those which affect the plains. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays
Consequently, His Honour Judge Tetlow was correct, in my judgment, that what he had to assess was the chance of the respondent succeeding on his counterclaim.
On succeeding pages of “The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D,” we find that “memories, caravels without sails, crossed the shadowy deserts of her burnt-out eyes” and that the dwarf, Petit Manuel, regards this same woman “with eyes like crushed flowers.” The Catastrophist
Edgar bade him adieu; and the faithful Ferdinand drove him wherever he had to go, and finally to Kensington Palace Gardens, where he was ushered into the drawing-room, to find Marilda, resolved upon unconsciousness, but only succeeding in a kind of obstreperous cordiality and good will, which, together with the hot room, made him quite dizzy; and his answers were so much at random, that he sent The Pillars of the House, V1
How touchingly expressive are the succeeding lines, wrung from a heart which all the trials and temptations and buffetings of the world could not render worldly; which, amid a thousand follies and errors of the head, still retained its childlike innocence; and which, doomed to struggle on to the last amid the din and turmoil of the metropolis, had ever been cheating itself with a dream of rural quiet and seclusion: The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
That's something we don't see that much anymore, and it's good that this kind of tennis is succeeding at Wimbledon. USATODAY.com - Philippoussis, Federer bring wildly diverging approaches
Strands of DNA are reproduced through succeeding generations.
It's certainly a false sense of security because there will always be a risk of at least one crazy person succeeding in harming us. Gingrich: 'Time to Know, to Profile, and to Discriminate'
And the fact that he was succeeding in doing things differently was clear from the way he won the trust of the horse. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
With succeeding Lord Horror works, each one aims to out-do the preceding one in grossness. Ballardian » “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1)
The equipment is then exploited at succeedingly higher levels until a countermeasure is developed to neutralize the enemy's technological advantage.
Each of these lineages radiated separately, with genus succeeding genus for the 10-20 million years of this era.
There is little probability of his succeeding / that he will succeed.
He has often mentioned "Toot" - his version of the Hawaiian word "tutu," or grandparent - as an example of a strong woman succeeding through intelligence and determination. News from www.pantagraph.com
The first player takes all the beans from any one of the six cups on his or her side and, moving anticlockwise, adds one bean to each succeeding cup, until all the beans are used up.
In succeeding years, grain merchandising, agronomy / fertilizer, feed sales and ready-mix concrete departments were added.
Anonymous said ... well ... just a suggestion but ... since you always seem to do fine when away & on vacation, maybe you should should leave that scale at home! succeeding at dieting is to get to a point where you are no longer dieting but just eating healthy, portion-controlled meals w/o thinking about it! Diet Update - Week 3
They marry, both ultimately succeeding in the harsher social and financial climate of the New World.
Makaab said Mbesuma had been training hard and that he was determined and positive of succeeding in European football.
That is the arrangement by which the Fathers of Confederation, and succeeding generations, have placed ownership of natural resources with the provinces, while the main levers controlling international and interprovincial trade are in the hands of the federal government. Energy and a Sense of Balance
Steven Black was named chief operating officer at Smith Barney, succeeding Dimon.
Not succeeding in arousing enthusiasm for our school of household science, we next turned our attention to what could be done in the way of establishing a housekeepers 'emergency bureau, which is, as its name indicates, to supply temporary help, the employe returning to her home each day. The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893, With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses
Murray is succeeding by keeping the ball out of the air and on the ground.
For the circle around the insertion is seen to increase, and to inflame; and I believe, undergoes a kind of diurnal paroxysm of torpor and paleness with a succeeding increase of action and colour, like a topical fever-fit. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
In the fifth year of the succeeding reign of Stephen, by whom the gifts just mentioned were confirmed, the Forest of Dean, that is, its royal quitrents, were granted to Lucy, Milo Fitz-Walter's third daughter, upon her marrying Herbert Fitz-Herbert, the King's chamberlain, and progenitor to the present Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery. The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account
The key to a feel-good movie like this succeeding has very little to do with the overall plot, which must follow certain time-honored formulas.
Well, at this point they're succeeding pretty well, because we have not seen any slippage on the part of the Democrats.
The increase in output in the succeeding decade was nevertheless real enough.
Problems with childcare remain the biggest barrier to women succeeding at work.
Quite what Voison thought of the name Citrohan is anyone's guess, but the car maker was clearly unoffended as he lent Le Corbusier cars in succeeding years.
Succeeding chapters take the reader from entrance to the final mystery and revelation of the martyr's tomb within.
The succeeding articles in this series will provide a fairly comprehensive list of what has been on.
Mr Andrew Laing took up the position on Monday, succeeding Mr Graeme Napier, who has recently been made a sheriff.
Every new magistracy, succeeding by homicide, is auspicated by accusing its predecessors in the office of tyranny, and it continues by the exercise of what they charged upon others. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
I have all the respect in the world for each succeeding generation of bodybuilders.
All other directions necessary for the learner in school, as well as for the _private learner_, will be given in the succeeding pages of the work. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
Trying to be good is one thing, but succeeding is another. Times, Sunday Times
The brain of a fish is very small, compared with the spinal cord into which it is continued, and with the nerves which come off from it: of the segments of which it is composed -- the olfactory lobes, the cerebral hemisphere, and the succeeding divisions -- no one predominates so much over the rest as to obscure or cover them; and the so-called optic lobes are, frequently, the largest masses of all. On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals
You are looking to tap that deep nonconscious reason that people buy" says Donna Sturgess , president of New York-based Buyology Inc. The company this year conducted research tracking people's brain activity to help marketers decide which products would have the best chances of succeeding at retail as well as what ads or other promotions best resonate with consumers. Does Shopping Stress You Out Too Much?
Acting in this spirit, and resolutely proceeding on our determination to avow our obligations to the authorities we have consulted, we frankly say, that to the note – book of Mr. Snodgrass are we indebted for the particulars recorded in this and the succeeding chapter — particulars which, now that we have disburdened our consciences, we shall proceed to detail without further comment. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
The clover may be pastured the following year, but in the year succeeding that, it is allowed to grow unchecked until August, when it is plowed in, the ground again guanoed, and wheat sown with herd's-grass (red-top) and clover, which is to remain, for mowing and pasture, as long as the ground will profitably sustain it. A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy
Nor is the bank rushing blindly into disaster in the event of a bid succeeding.
Obviously the glass ceiling has not stopped these women from succeeding in their business endeavors.
+ The sensible rhetorick of the dead, to exemplarity of good life, first admitted to the bones of pious men and martyrs within church walls, which in succeeding ages crept into promiscuous practice: while Constantine was peculiarly favoured to be admitted into the church porch, and the first thus buried in England, was in the days of Cuthred. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
It is recorded that the first persons who practised this species of composition [Footnote: The _composition_ here mentioned consisted of three parts, The _first_ regarded the structure; that is, the _connection_ of our words, and required that the last syllable of every preceding, and the first of every succeeding word should be so aptly united as to produce an agreeable sound; which was effected by avoiding a collision of vowels or of inamicable consonants. Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
Including a green manure crop such as mucuna in the minor season did not result in better performance of maize than of second season cowpea, but did have a pronounced residual effect on the succeeding maize crop. 1. Soil constraints on sustainable plant production in the tropics.
If you can actually see yourself succeeding and honestly believe that you can succeed, then you will.
In kindergarten, each student brings a blank videotape to school which is then used in succeeding years to record the interviews.
Assonance, in its stricter sense, means the repetition of an accented vowel (blackness -- dances), while the succeeding sounds vary, but the terms "assonance" and "consonance" are often employed loosely to signify harmonious effects of tone-color within a line or group of lines. A Study of Poetry
Speaking of Neons, Chrysler has succeeding in imprinting that "Born to be Alive" song into my brain, but why are they pretending the "Dodge SX 2.0" is something other than a Neon with a different grille? Daimnation!: I want one of these
There is a world of difference from succeeding in South Africa to competing in Bangladesh.
Just do your succeeding few workouts as you usually do them to let your muscles fully recover.
I think the process should be "demystified" (there's no magic about succeeding or delusion about being suddenly discovered-one has to put in the effort and be willing to persist-as basic as it is, one can't be in the running for anything without applying) - but I also think time plays a role too. Kelly Spitzer
Obviously the glass ceiling has not stopped these women from succeeding in their business endeavors.
The fact that the story was untrue would not have prevented him from relying on this defence and succeeding in it.
It is a fresh robbery of every succeeding generation - a new robbery every year and every day; it is like the robbery which condemns to slavery the children of the slave.
On this basis, the prospects of the applicant succeeding in the challenge to his conviction appear to us be very slim.
The nature of the modular course means students only go on to the second year if they think they have a good chance of succeeding.
'cellos con sordini; the heart-shaking sadness and beauty of the succeeding passage for all the muted strings; the mysterious and solemn close: these are outstanding moments in a masterpiece of the first rank: a page which would honour any music-maker, living or dead. Edward MacDowell
1911 - George V is crowned King of the United Kingdom, succeeding his father, Edward VII.
A future in which succeeding generations are freed from the need to spawn wealth anew can allow children, and grandchildren, to lead lives on a higher plane.
The officers fusilladed the mountain of flesh, succeeding only in rousing it to added fury. Last of the Great Scouts The Life Story of William F Cody
What Crystal has identified may not be an unrecorded British-American antonymic idiom, but rather an instance of a speaker's striving to make sense out of the apparently senseless, and succeeding to his own satisfaction, although not to that of the original speaker. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 3
Carrie's little soldier friend, Miss Osborne , seeing her succeeding, had become a sort of satellite.
Modern attention tends to concentrate on the Romanic French side of the splitting Frankish world of the ninth and tenth centuries, because a particularly strong and creative society would find its center there in succeeding centuries. The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
Perseverance is falling nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
Silently I looked up at her with a reproachful glance, trying at least for a little pity and only succeeding in finding that the spark of respect had disappeared.
Until these break-out roles for Firth, the two actors had kept up some kind of equivalence, each succeeding as Jane Austen heroes after Grant played Edward Ferrars in Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility, then both tackling the modern-day laddy Englishness of Nick Hornby's world in adaptations of Fever Pitch and About a Boy. Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, the screen's leading Englishmen at 50
Company specialize in automobile fittings, sandy beach car rear axle always succeeding and auxiliary products.
They are not so particular about a drunk best man succeeding. Times, Sunday Times
Once this gene alteration has taken place, the changed (mutant) gene can then be passed on to succeeding generations.
The lack of money is a serious obstacle that could prevent the project from succeeding.
Zozaya, like Dicenta, has never done anything but manipulate the commonplace, failing to impart either lightness or novelty to it, as have Valera and Anatole France, succeeding only on the other hand in making it more plumbeous and indigestible. Youth and Egolatry
It began soon after we'd sat down on the fire escape stairs, sitting in pairs on each succeeding stair.
Trying to be good is one thing, but succeeding is another. Times, Sunday Times
Although there were the usual cyclic downturns, the rural economy on the whole rapidly improved in the twenty years succeeding the suspension of cash payments.
Newspapers are not succeeding in getting the children of the current older generation of readers to read newspapers.
On occasion his position became hereditary, sons, cousins, nephews succeeding.
Let's be brutally honest about this: you haven't a hope of succeeding.
Or put case they escape, and rest unmasked to their lives 'end, yet after their death their memory stinks as a snuff of a candle put out, and those that durst not so much as mutter against them in their lives, will prosecute their name with satires, libels, and bitter imprecations, they shall male audire in all succeeding ages, and be odious to the world's end. Anatomy of Melancholy
Like bramblings, siskins tend to winter in widely different areas in succeeding years.
Nor did his philosophy contribute significantly to the development of the scientific enterprise in succeeding generations.
It is best, however, to dig them up in the fall and resow for the year succeeding. Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses
The green chambers of my interminable palace were deserted - emptiness succeeding emptiness. The Times Literary Supplement
The McCan do nothing mavericks are hard at succeeding with their unsatiable desires: McCain is a man who thinks he deserves to be President and repeats over and over and over about his tragic experience of being a POW. Morning Buzz: The Palin Push
cuprammonium" solution dissolved some of the cellulose which reprecipitated during passage through the succeeding acid bath, filling the pores of the cloth enough to make it "water resistant" but not "water-proof". John B. Fenn - Autobiography
In addition, in order to address the continued proliferation of thousands of new trust accounts caused by the "fractionation" of land interests through succeeding generations, the settlement establishes a $2 billion fund for the voluntary buy-back and consolidation of fractionated land interests. Secretary Salazar Urges Congress to Approve Settlement of Cobell Lawsuit on Native American Trust Management
In succeeding years, this problematisation of sexuality, including heterosexuality, has come to characterise lesbian history.
Trying to be good is one thing, but succeeding is another. Times, Sunday Times
Tsai Hsung-hsiung, a minister without portfolio, will be minister of the council for economic planning and development, succeeding Chen Tain-Jy, Mr. Wu said at a news conference. Taiwan's Newly Named Cabinet Faces Old Problems
That period now covers the year ahead and two succeeding years in broader outline.
The one that had stirred seemed to struggle through a haze to sit up, and finally succeeding, with a low moan of pain.
For a long while, only Elizabeth Bishop appeared to be judged worthy of succeeding the longevous Miss Moore.
In a freewheeling chat at Reliance Digitial Time Out on Saturday, Mr. Bhargava recalled the growth of the company from a mere blip on the industry screen to the automotive giant that it has evolved to become, succeeding against odds, babudom and detractors, revolutionizing the automotive sector in India and sitting on a cash pile of around Rs. 6000 crores. ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds
I therefore put to the succeeding symposiasts the simple central questions, ‘What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or of the existence of, God?’
There is little probability of his succeeding / that he will succeed.
And judging by the buoyant mood of the cheerful crowds swirling all over the city centre, and day after day of packed events, they were succeeding.
Money tends to flow to businesses that are already succeeding.
They realise there is something called succeeding and honouring both assets and liabilities. Times, Sunday Times
Certainly no other nineteenth-century artist was so widely studied and so differently interpreted by the painters of the succeeding age.
_We are doing the most for ourselves and for others when we are in a position which calls into play in the highest possible way the greatest number of our best faculties; in other words, we are succeeding best for ourselves when we are succeeding best for others_. Pushing to the Front
[38] None of the succeeding holders of the imperial title exercised any authority outside of Germany. Early European History
I remember reading Deighton's novels when they first appeared, but it seems to me the enjoyment diminished with each succeeding book.
And so I jumped at your analogy, ignoring the Neibuhrian incongruity between individual and nation that makes earning our way off our meds something for individuals to aspire to, but for nations never to finally accomplish, each succeeding generation needing to reclimb that mountain anew, given base human nature. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities
The authors who undertake succeeding volumes will do well to follow the lead set by Stanley Hall.
They realise there is something called succeeding and honouring both assets and liabilities. Times, Sunday Times
Over the course of the century, the city obviously evolved in various directions, and the exhibition delineates particular angles and themes that preoccupied succeeding eras.
Money tends to flow to businesses that are succeeding.

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