Sentence examples similar to erratic succession from inspiring English sources
For personal and dynastic reasons, emperors favoured certain towns and provinces at the expense of others, and the erratic course of succession to the throne, coupled with a resulting constant change among the top administrative officials, largely deprived economic and social policies of recognizable consistency.
The result has been a succession of erratic incremental steps, forced by events and largely driven by tactics.
But Murray and Fleming broke twice in succession as the erratic Fognini lost control of his serve.
Daley is simultaneously in thrall and undone by her father, whose succession of wives, spiraling alcoholism and wildly erratic behavior finally push them apart.
After Kim Jong-il died in December, there were serious concerns that a succession struggle would lead to even more erratic and belligerent behavior.
Peter Stern, a New York-born management consultant who has lived in Brazil since 1980, said foreigners often forgot that before Brazil adopted the inflation-slaying real in 1994, decades of erratic economic policies, a series of stabilization plans and a succession of new currencies had made Brazilian executives some of the world's most flexible in making profits in the most adverse circumstances.
Guinea has been ruled by a succession of dictators; the wounding of the latest, an erratic army captain, last December led to Sunday's free vote, symbolized by a transparent plastic vote-box in the polling places.
The beloved leader is clearly still in bad shape after his stroke last year, and the latest bout of erratic behaviour by Pyongyang may be an early showing of symptoms that the succession battle is already under way.
