The fact is that on many polar expeditions of that period men did not survive, precisely because they and their leaders succumbed to their baser instincts of greed, self-promotion and pessimism, and thereby insured their own destruction.
Some are arguing that arts administrators and their patrons succumbed to an irrational exuberance that rivaled the stock market's in the boom years.
Every vacation back to San Francisco brought more stories of people I knew, their friends, and their lovers succumbing to the mystery disease, one after another.
With their players succumbing to injury and their spirits dim, the Nets have lost nine straight games and 12 of their last 14.
Animals whose interests do not help to maintain their existence succumb under the conditions of their existence, and "leave the field" for others.
— will be undermined if their stars succumb to injury.
Amnesty accused members of commission of failing to do their job, succumbing instead to political and economic pressures.
Others become orphaned when their parents succumb to the illness.
Interestingly, flies unable to renew their epithelium succumb to infection, demonstrating that epithelium renewal is an essential component of Drosophila defense against oral bacterial infection [ 7, 9, 10].
At some point, the women lost their footing and succumbed to the undercurrent of drugs and prostitution that has been steadily eating away at the parish.
