Sentence examples for upon succeeding from inspiring English sources
Calling the act an unconstitutional "reign of terror," Jefferson, upon succeeding Adams as president, pardoned the journalists and other Americans who had been convicted and imprisoned, and remitted their fines.
"Whatever the president wants, I'll certainly try to get it for him," the senator announced in 1993 upon succeeding Lloyd Bentsen as chairman of the all-important Finance Committee.
Upon succeeding Mark Murphy as Northwestern's athletic director in 2008, Phillips decided he had the right man in place and offered Fitzgerald a seven-year contract extension at roughly $1 million a year.
In a jocular statement upon succeeding the writer Louis Auchincloss, Mr. Rorem said, "Since music is the most neglected of the arts, my first task as president will be to change the name of this organization to the American Academy of Arts, Letters and Music".
Upon succeeding his father in 1971, he became, aged 19, one of the world's youngest heads of state and ruled as "president for life" for 15 years with the help of the vicious Tonton Macoute militia before bowing to popular protests and international pressure and fleeing to France.
Upon succeeding Charles Mackerras at the BBC Concert Orchestra in 1956, Tausky made a great impression with programmes that ranged from Sullivan to Stravinsky, Mozart to Gershwin, an annual light music festival, which featured many commissioned works, and the ever-popular Friday Night Is Music Night.
The alliance is contingent upon Vodafone's succeeding in its bid for Mannesmann.
Throughout you have the sense not only of events but also of entire cycles of history succeeding upon one another rapidly and inexorably.
The depiction of Ruth in "Ode to a Nightingale" ("She stood in tears amid the alien corn") put such a memorable, unexpected — indeed, alien — spin upon "alien" that succeeding poets risk sounding plagiaristic when employing it.
However, speed on the tangent section depends upon preceding and succeeding curve geometry.
The best way to protect ourselves is to understand the underlying principles that all scams depend upon to succeed.
