Sentence examples for are successive from inspiring English sources

Syngamy and meiosis are successive events in a sexual life history.

But the ballet's deeper changes are successive, and they occur principally in the dancers' rhythm and dynamics.

"Passing," "Past" and "To Come" are successive scenes, and they show us lives with and without religious ritual.

When there are successive droughts, as we have seen in the Sahel, recovery is even more difficult.

More examples of building blocks: the recent scribble etchings are successive layerings of differently colored scribbles, which Mr. Close includes along with the final prints, to demystify the technical process and make the whole construction of the work integral to its message.

For Mr Ingrassia, there are no real villains, but lots of people who could and should have done better.Among them are successive leaders of the United Auto Workers union, who extracted extraordinarily generous wages and benefits for their mainly unskilled members during the fat years when the car companies were throwing off more cash than they knew what to do with.

There have been successive tragedies on Everest's Nepalese approach.

It is successive governments that have instituted what one colleague calls an "endless obsession with GCSE results and league tables".

There have been successive waves over the centuries, from and to different areas, and for a variety of reasons.

The highlights of the Nets' tenure there were successive trips to the N.B.A. finals in 2001-2 and 2002-3.

It was successive Egyptian military rulers who arrested, tortured, killed and exiled thousands of members of the Muslim Brotherhood.