Successions

Word SUCCESSIONS
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Definitions and meanings of "Successions"

What do we mean by successions?

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.

A race or series of descendants.

Rotation, as of crops.

A right to take possession.

In Roman and Scots law, the taking of property by one person in place of another.

The person who succeeds to rank or office; a successor or heir.

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The word "successions" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Yet covenants before successions is not surely the natural order of civil laws.] 151 Prior examples of testaments are perhaps fabulous. ❋ Unknown (1206)

In order then to know what the Apostles taught, we must have recourse to the "successions" of bishops throughout the world. ❋ 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. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)

"We must go through successions in evolution in order to achieve the next level of excellence." ❋ Jeffrey Ng (2011)

Several crises resulted in successions of complacencies, lack of courage and... complete disrespect of the Stability Pact. ❋ Georges Ugeux (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

• Put an end to successions of booms and busts and finish off inflation once and for all. ❋ GetAbstract (2010)

That means that leadership successions can be crisis points, because the new elite wants to carve up the economy and construct its own patronage network. ❋ Julian Evans (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. ❋ Jena McGregor (2010)

The elder Kim visited China twice this year and twice the year before in what many analysts saw as an attempt to win China's endorsement for the transition plan—which was eventually forthcoming, although Beijing doesn't favor such dynastic successions. ❋ Jeremy Page (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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sholes did frequency analysis on letter-pairs and separated pairs of letters that tend to cause mechanical jams when typed in quick successions like TH. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In most Western music, and, to my knowledge, non-Western music as well, it is more frequent that lines with rapid successions of notes are higher than lines with slower successions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And so on, through successions of sales until 2109, when the covenant recorded in 2010 disappears. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In any case, China's citizens, raised with an awareness of their country's heartbreakingly tumultuous history of messy dynastic successions, invasions and expropriation, have come to value tangibility as an attribute. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The target of their protest: Private transfer fees being attached as liens on homes and requiring successions of property owners to pay a fee every time the house or lot resells during the coming 99 years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Wilson's remedy: Pressure boards to split the chief executive and chairman jobs during successions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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