Sentence examples for succession upon from inspiring English sources

As a result of his efforts, the succession, upon Elizabeth's death, passed without incident to James, who maintained Cecil as his secretary of state.

In England the church succeeded shortly after the Norman Conquest in establishing the jurisdiction of its courts for matters concerning succession upon death to personal property.

In an attempt to characterize the facial characteristics typical of criminals, he created what he called "composite portraits" by "throwing faint images of the several portraits, in succession, upon the same sensitised photographic plate".

For the natives, who were familiar with the region and had occupied the heights in advance, kept rolling great rocks in quick succession upon the marching troops; and at the same time, sending arrows thick and fast, they wounded men who were able neither to turn aside the missiles nor to avoid them because of the difficulties of the terrain.

Based in the Electorate of Brandenburg, the main branch of the Hohenzollern intermarried with the branch ruling the Duchy of Prussia, and secured succession upon the latter's extinction in the male line in 1618.

Two "ands" in succession fall upon an accented syllable.

The same applied even more when the mantle of succession fell upon his eldest son.

You may be able to reapply the same strip two or three times in rapid succession, depending upon the amount of wax you use.

Succession to property upon death of the previous owner is a central concept in nearly all property systems and falls into the category of derivative acquisition.

The proposal calls for the board to separate the roles upon succession to the next chief.

Recently, the group issued a call to North American public companies to voluntarily adopt independent chairmanship as the default model of board leadership, upon succession of a combined CEO and chairman.