Sentence examples for held successively from inspiring English sources
Beginning in the late 12th century, the region was held successively by the Ghūrid sultanate, by various Muslim Afghan dynasties, and then by the Mughal dynasty.
After falling to the tyrant Ezzelino da Romano in 1258, it was held successively by the Veronese Scaliger family and the Milanese Visconti before passing to Venice in 1426.
By 1220 he was a member of the Franciscan order and subsequently became a leading Franciscan teacher in northern Europe; he held successively the offices of custos ("warden") in Saxony and of minister ("subordinate officer") in Germany and afterward in Spain (perhaps also in Barbary and Cologne).
To limit interaction bias, all sessions using the same video-cases were held successively on a single day.
From 1996 Rajoy served in the PP government of Prime Minister José María Aznar, holding, successively, the posts of minister of public administration, minister of education and culture, and minister of the interior, and in 2003 Aznar handpicked Rajoy as the party's new leader.
He joined the Columbia faculty in 1941 and successively held professorships in microbiology, and human genetics and development.
In 1996, the principal of six years, Jack Adler, retired, and was replaced by two people who successively held the job temporarily.
For many years after World War II much of the Ca Mau Peninsula was successively held by Viet Minh and Viet Cong guerrillas.
After entering parliament in 2005, since 2010 he has successively held two junior Treasury minister roles – exchequer secretary and financial secretary – and is now chief secretary in the same department.
He successively held the posts of magistrate, prefectural staff supervisor, professor of the directorate of education, and assistant prefect before resigning from office only a year before he died.
In the course of the next four centuries, the Ibn Khaldūns successively held high administrative and political posts under the Umayyad, Almoravid, and Almohad dynasties; other members of the family served in the army, and several were killed at the Battle of Al-Zallāqah (1086), which temporarily halted the Christian reconquest of Spain.
