Sentence examples for succession against from inspiring English sources
When Macmillan was forced out after the Profumo affair, he helped stitch up the succession against Rab for the second time.
In 1708, during the War of the Spanish Succession against France (1701 14), he became commander in chief of the English army in Spain and captured Minorca, but French forces defeated and captured him at Brihuega in December 1710.
In 1733 France entered the War of the Polish Succession against Austria in support of Stanisław's claims to the Polish throne; Stanisław was made duke of Lorraine by the treaty that ended the conflict (1738).
In 1711 he succeeded John Churchill, duke of Marlborough, as commander in chief of the British forces in the War of the Spanish Succession against the French (1701 13).
Manu Tuilagi, whose power and momentum had tested Northampton's defence all afternoon, rated the four-try victory, Leicester's seventh in succession against the Saints, as the Tigers' best performance of the season.
What had happened was this: goals from Marcelo and Marco Asensio, both superbly struck, overturned Joshua Kimmich's opener to give Madrid a win, their third in a row here, their sixth in succession against their great European rivals.
The war party compelled Fleury to support Leszczyński in the ensuing War of the Polish Succession (1733 38) against Austria and Russia.
Already Pauline de Mailly-Nesle, marquise de Vintimille, Louis's mistress from 1739 to 1741, had sponsored the war party that brought France into the inconclusive War of the Austrian Succession (1740 48) against Austria and Great Britain.
But after his elevation to chief justice in 2005, Roberts in quick succession ruled against abortion rights, school integration plans and campaign finance regulations.
Here, first a combative Protestantism, then a succession of successful wars against the hegemonic rulers of Europe (from the Sun King and Napoleon to Hitler) gave the idea of insular singularity a peculiar emotional heft.
Ronald Reagan's vice-president, George Bush Snr, pulled off the succession in 1988 against hopeless Michael Dukakis, as Al Gore, Bill Clinton's number two, did not against crafty Bush Jnr in 2000.
