Sentence examples for succession by from inspiring English sources

Then he was shot twice in quick succession by Williams.

Some throws were deflected, including two in succession by Henderson.

In 1866 he obtained a firman establishing the succession by primogeniture in his own line abandoning the contemporary Ottoman rule of succession by the eldest male.

He reinstated a ban on consecutive presidential terms and on immediate presidential succession by relatives.

He said that the wounds appeared to have been "made in rapid succession by one person".

Gibraltar was captured in 1704 during the war of Spanish succession by an Anglo-Dutch fleet.

Technically Franco settled the problem of his immediate succession by appointing Gen. Augustin Munoz Grandes as his deputy.

THE RISEN EMPIRE: Book One of Succession, by Scott Westerfeld (Tor/Tom Doherty, $24.95) is a literate space opera.

She is followed in quick succession by other young and middle-aged women, who say in turn: "My mother".

"I don't know that it makes succession by him any more definite, but it prevented what could have been the event of making it far less likely".

Situated in Turkey's beautiful, mountainous far east, in the early 20th century it was controlled in short succession by the Ottomans, Russian invaders, Armenian nationalists and Kurdish rebels.