immediately succeeding

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

The most understanding of the emperors in the years immediately succeeding Iconoclasm was Basil I (867 886).

His second administration did not begin until the early 1960's (he was precluded from immediately succeeding himself in 1948).

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia has promoted James Follo to chief financial officer, effective immediately, succeeding Helen Murphy.

He preceded the poets of the immediately succeeding age of the emperor Augustus, among whom Horace, Sextus Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid name him as a poet whose work is familiar to them.

The appearance of village farming in the upper levels at Huaca Prieta and in the immediately succeeding Guañape phase in surrounding areas is roughly contemporaneous with the first appearance of this way of life in the Valley of Mexico at such sites as Zacatenco and El Arbolillo.

The immediately succeeding proposition, PCP IIp17, states, "Every body that moves in a circle strives to move away from the center of the circle that it describes" (emphasis added).

The overture did not immediately succeed.

Military leaders were immediately succeeded on an interim basis by their subordinates.

He was immediately succeeded by Olaf I Tryggvason, who had invaded Norway earlier that year.

After a brief cameo as a reliever late that season, McDonald joined the Orioles' rotation the next summer and immediately succeeded.

Bhumibol immediately succeeded to the throne following Ananda's mysterious death (the circumstances of which were never explained).