By now, the Newtown, Connecticut, shooting has faded into memory for many people, a horrible event already superseded in the headlines by other horrible events.
For example, as the exercise reached crisis, AVSAG followed process by only responding to explicit requests from the decision makers (Cronin 2008), to the point that events actually superseded their responses.
The hazard for journalists who take up writing books on current events is that events quickly supersede their books.
Hinchcliffe's comeback would probably be the most compelling story any other year, but he understands that the event itself supersedes everything else in 2016.
Both men and women participate in multi-event competitions, the men in the 10-event decathlon and the women in the 7-event heptathlon, which superseded the earlier pentathlon.
The few successful cases of counterinsurgency, such as the Malayan Emergency or "The Troubles" in Ireland in 1982, are isolated incidents of successful campaigns with external events often superseding any counterinsurgency strategy.
Just as some religious festivals were grafted on to existing calendar events – eg Christmas superseded the pagan festival of Sol, or the winter solstice – the creation of Bonfire Night was a propaganda exercise that was grafted onto an annual event in the agricultural calendar.
As thekevster pointed out last week, the SCDP merger was about to be superseded by events.
Ben Ali is known to his long-suffering subjects as "Ben A Vie" ("president for life"), though last night that nickname looked to have been superseded by events.
In this respect the Second Athenian Confederacy, with its political justification in terms of anti-Spartan sentiment, had already been superseded by events.
