Sentence examples for succession our from inspiring English sources

Then followed in rapid succession our first war with China, our Indian and Sikh wars, our campaigns in New Zealand, Kaffraria, on the north-west frontiers of India, in the Punjaub, and in Burmah.

In rapid succession, our global crises have ranged from the environmental to the economic — from tsunamis leveling entire regions of Asia and destroying seemingly impregnable nuclear reactors, to debt and unemployment crushing ostensibly healthy nations.

As We do not wish to part from our beloved son, We transmit the succession to our brother, the Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, and give him our blessing to mount the throne of the Russian Empire.

Second and noteworthy in that it anticipates both Malebranche and Hume if we restrict ourselves to what we observe, we never experience a causal connection but only temporal succession between our volitions at one moment and our body's actions the next.

I think it's probably written in us to have a succession of our genes".

But we faced them in succession, as our financial system seized up and severely damaged the economy.

In terms of precedence and succession in our monarchy and nobility, the rights of women still take second place to the rights of men.

Much like a lawn that reverts to weeds, bushes and eventually trees if left fallow, the sponges around Carrie Bow could be progressing through a similar succession before our eyes as the corals on which they depend change.

Starting at Sunday 11 00am EST, you can watch the frenzy as the teams deliver 60-second presentations in rapid-fire succession to our panel of expert judges.

Anyone who inclines to realism, but also follows Augustine in confining consciousness to the momentary present, faces the difficulty of explaining how we can have an awareness of succession if our consciousness consists of nothing more than a succession of momentary snapshot-like experiences.

Given that Locke's defines consciousness itself as 'the perception of what passes in a Man's own mind' (II, 1, 19), if we can observe (and hence perceive) succession in our own minds, we are surely conscious of it too.