The Dutch did succeed Monday in breaking their streak of faltering in the first phase of the knockout round, something they had done in the last World Cup, losing to Portugal, and the 2008 European Championship, losing to Russia.
If efforts to legalize marriage for gay and lesbian couples in any of the four states succeed Tuesday, it will be the first time that same-sex marriage is legalized by ballot measure.
If you're trying to avoid digging into that bag of chips after dinner because you want to lose a few pounds and you succeed Monday and Tuesday nights only to succumb to temptation on Wednesday by eating four servings' worth of the empty calories, your failure outweighs your success.
Finally, there is a more subtle thing-the sense of gathering merit in simply living out each succeeding day.
Then you have to prove yourself, and keep on proving yourself, every succeeding day of the mission.
The other mate hates the guest, and with each succeeding day, tensions build into a bathysphere of distaste that encapsulates the entire house, like a fumigating bag from a pest-removal company.
1929 - The great Crash £1,000,000,000 crash on New York stock exchange "The heavy break on the New York Stock Exchange, which began on Saturday and has been increased on each succeeding day except Tuesday, when there was a slight recovery, reached catastrophic proportions yesterday with a crash described as the worst in the history of the Exchange.
In the end it may be something of an understatement to say, "It is almost a certainty that each succeeding day will be full of new, often unusual, and certainly challenging demands".
The Rockets finally succeeded Saturday evening.
