She said successive studies had shown that successful early nurture was the proven route to helping children in later life, and the body of evidence had grown more comprehensive since Sure Start was first launched.
There are promises on tax avoidance and evasion, something promised by successive governments which is often easier to announce than to achieve.
Her government's tacit support for Saddam Hussein's war against Iran led to successive Gulf wars and John Major's studied neutrality in Bosnia – which later pushed Tony Blair in the opposite direction, towards costly interventionism that overstretched MoD resources.
For the north's economic problems do not stem from a lack of tech-startups or an inability to cross the Pennines at lightning-quick speed; they are borne of successive crises of capitalism, each of which leaving behind their own uncompromising legacy.
Successive laws passed by New Labour have pared down our liberty at an astonishing rate.
In Spain's case, our adherence to what was then the European Community was the culmination of a yearning by successive generations cut off from the possibility of joining the broader current of peace, democracy and progress that was flowing north of the Pyrenean border.
Since 2001 the group has survived successive crackdowns announced by Pakistani authorities.
A party source added: "Every suicide is a tragedy, but the latest available data shows that the rate is now the same as in 2003 and has been relatively stable during successive governments in the intervening period".
Or on a chairman who insisted he had learned from past mistakes but saw his team ignominiously relegated from the top flight for the second successive time?
The county has followed its transport policy for half a decade, despite pressure from successive Environment secretaries to change or abandon it.
The preparations by the "golden triangle" – cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, the Queen's private secretary, Sir Christopher Geidt, and the prime minister's principal private secretary, Chris Martin – show how discreet work is underway as Whitehall gears up for a second successive hung parliament, which could prove still more complicated than the last one.
