Synonym: consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial. Similar words: succession, ecological succession, success, successor, successful, unsuccessful, successfully, recessive. Meaning: [sək'sesɪv] adj. in regular succession without gaps.
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61. After his third successive election defeat he decided to retire from politics.
62. In 1906-14 successive foreign ministers were authorised by the tsar to report to it on only five occasions.
63. Baldwin, supported by Sir Thomas Inskip, listened during three or four-hour sessions on each of the successive days.
64. Three successive Home Secretaries have stood at the Dispatch Box and pledged to do away with holding prisoners in police cells.
65. It was a memorable moment for the team, the third successive one-two achieved at the Circuit de Catalunya by the partnership.
66. Rochdale's challenge is fading fast after a third successive defeat.
67. Each successive age group wishes to establish itself as being different from its predecessors.
68. It comes at a time when the Reagan administration is rolling back the controls established by successive governments in the 1970s.
69. Successive dollars of income will go for less urgently needed goods and finally for trivial goods and services.
70. This can be illustrated by comparing the ranking orders recognized at successive periods.
71. We have been working at improving race relations in Britain for over 30 years, under successive Governments.
72. They also measure the difference between the scores for the successive decades to capture the change in political representation.
73. Among the causes of the fall of the Roman empire were successive attacks by barbarians. Sentencedict.com
74. Successive experience to the contrary failed to disabuse them of this illusion.
75. The family were not rich; much of their land had been sold to pay the debts of successive wastrel sons.
76. Successive personnel managers had always caved in to his demands as they knew full well that Clasper would win a stand-up fight.
77. In addition, there had been several successive bad harvests, and a phylloxera epidemic which devastated the vineyards.
78. It was Aamodt's fourth successive race victory and gave him the title for the discipline, if not the major prize.
79. Through successive administrations, corruption, nepotism and fiscal mismanagement remained the order of the day.
80. Both states are final; there is no suggestion of gradually obtaining release from punishment by successive reincarnations.
81. Now most of the paint had been peeled away by successive seasons of sun and rain.
82. Successive legislative steps have been taken since then to tighten the restrictions on access to tobacco by young children.
83. My confidence suffered so much that I failed to reach the 50-wicket mark in three successive County Championship campaigns with Middlesex.
84. For Coulthard[Sentencedict.com], the prospect of posting a third successive Silverstone win looks a forlorn hope at best after another disappointing race.
85. The redistribution of wealth, erratically pursued by successive governments since 1945, was markedly reversed in the 1980s.
86. But buy some reserve seeds in case of crop failures or for successive sowings of fast-maturing varieties such as lettuce and radishes.
87. Successive statutes, principally the Bankruptcy Acts and the Companies Acts, contained provisions regulating this subject matter.
88. Thus the time taken to unroll a carpet is very short compared with the time interval between the arrival of successive consignments.
89. Nature allows some persons to pass through all the successive levels of biological growth and thereby attain their biological needs.
90. Starting with next Saturday's home match against Towcestrians they face three successive league matches, with Durham Cup ties in midweek.
More similar words: succession, ecological succession, success, successor, successful, unsuccessful, successfully, recessive, excessive, accessible, accessibly, inaccessible, accessibility, obsessive, expressive, regressive, possessive, aggressive, impressive, oppressive, succeed, progressive, succeed in, access, accessory, accessorize, cession, passive, massive, secession.