It has permitted a succession of government coups d'etat, first when the Qajars' Cossack forces bombarded the parliament in 1908, and then in 1921 when a Cossack officer named Reza Khan seized power and established the Pahlavi dynasty.
Mark E. Feldman, the chief of organized crime prosecution for the United States attorney's office in Brooklyn, said the command structure of the mob that permits leadership succession and the Mafia's machinery for illegal profit have made it a durable adversary.
In 1953, following a change in the Danish constitution to permit female succession to the throne, Margrethe, the king's eldest daughter, assumed the title of "throne heiress" (i.e., crown princess, although that title, in Denmark, had denoted the wife of a male heir to the throne).
Together these phenomena permit the succession of still frames on a motion-picture film strip to represent continuous movement when projected at the proper speed (traditionally 16 frames per second for silent films and 24 frames per second for sound films).
Polygyny was permitted, and descent, succession, and inheritance followed the male line.
Also, daily analyses of a broad range of biological and chemical variables permitted to link phytoplankton succession to the aggregation process.
"He cannot be permitted to plan his succession and manage this election process.
It was such men, selected for their competence, rather than through hereditary succession, that permitted Rome to enjoy the happy condition of which Gibbon speaks.
At nearly the same time, the important work of Lyell on the faunal succession of the Paris Basin permitted finer-scaled discrimination of this classic Tertiary sequence.
What began as a demonstration by several hundred firefighters to protest a reduction in the number of firefighters permitted at the site turned into a jagged succession of awkward moments -- some ugly, some poignant.
