Sentence examples for succession writing from inspiring English sources

The focal length of a thin lens can be computed by applying the surface-conjugate formula (6) to the two surfaces in succession, writing the l of the first surface as infinity and the l of the second surface equal to the l′ of the first surface.

"You take a nice complex ecosystem, chop it into rectangles, clear it to the ground, and hammer it into perpetual early succession!" writes Stewart Brand.

Other cabinet-level departments like Justice were not addressed by Mr. Bush because they already had succession lines written into law, officials said.

From the time the American student enters kindergarten until he reaches college, and often beyond, he is subjected to a succession of written examinations whose practical function is to sort and clas sify him for the convenience of school teachers, administrators and college admissions officers.

In quick succession, she wrote a version of Eurydice; a cycle called Passion Play, which depicted the story of the crucifixion in various historical contexts including Nazi Germany and Vietnam; and The Clean House, set in Connecticut, a surrealist comedy that won her the Pulitzer nomination.

It was great-man history that traced the evolution of ideas through a succession of written texts.

Buttler and Bopara briefly raised hopes of an unlikely victory with some lusty blows, but when they were dismissed in close succession, the writing was on the wall and Fawad Ahmed's dismissal of Rankin wrapped up the series win.

In the late 1990s he worked on TV shows with radical film-maker Michael Moore, whom he calls a "master communicator", before moving on to the Nation magazine, where he became national security correspondent, reporting on a succession of wars and writing the bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army.

I hope such a reader would get something of the excitement I got in moving from world to different world – the liberation of writing a succession of short stories – yet constantly discovering echoes and connections: twenty-five human worlds that go some way to exploring the elusive plurality known singly as England.

In quick succession two pieces of writing destined to gain a prominent influence were published: the French translation of Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (by the Abbé des François) and the entry 'Sublime' in the Encyclopédie written by Chevalier de Jaucourt.

Coward thrived during the Great Depression, writing a succession of popular hits.