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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151. Successive governments have exploited our weakness for anything tax-free with a series of investment schemes.
152. Successive Lord Chancellors have gone on record stating their keenness to create a judiciary more representative of the population as a whole.
153. Their debates encompassed the whole range of problems which would preoccupy successive generations of the intelligentsia.
154. Current possession of human, physical and financial capital tends to reinforce itself in successive periods, although not completely so.
155. Each successive ideal-type political culture involves more extensive involvement between individuals and the political order.
156. For all of us there is also the law of diminishing returns that goes to work with each successive bite.
157. In the case of bacteria, the enormous numbers of cells produced by successive doublings go their separate ways.
158. The original Norfolk rotation was used to grow cash crops on strong land, yet never were two successive cash crops taken.
159. Jackson became the first batter since Babe Ruth to hit three successive home runs in a single game.
160. Two methods of selection are allowed: Selection from the displays of successive index pages.
161. He had scored four points until he made successive three-point baskets late in the game.
162. As the political complexion of successive governments changed, so - frequently - did many of the top appointments in broadcasting.
163. After successive delays, aided by the law courts, the new deadline for payment is Thursday. Sentencedict.com
164. So Chelsea had more reason than alliteration to fear a third successive failure to reach the third round.
165. Anglers Choice starlet Graham Metcalfe topped the proceedings for the second successive week and set a new five-hour best of 16-8-0.
166. Furthermore, successive governments have appeared to accept this definition of ethnic relations as largely a question of immigration control.
167. When Mr Cerezo, before his election, stood up against successive military regimes the rightists tried to kill him.
168. This is the second successive monthly fall, following the encouraging month-on-month improvements between December and March.
169. A series of confrontations between protesters and police escalated into violence, with the numbers swelling on each successive night.
170. Bears have suffered five successive defeats, including a 47-43 home defeat by Peterborough last week.
171. Successive massive pro-democracy demonstrations prompt the resignation of Erich Honecker after 18 years in power.
172. Each successive tide dissolves the salt and deposits more, forming pools of highly concentrated saline.
173. In effect, this machine dissected time by the weighing of successive equal quantities of fluid.
174. The details of the evening, the chronology of conversation came in successive eddies of reflected delight and despair.
175. After this fourth successive Tory election victory, we think it would be better if a Labour Speaker had a turn.
176. The priority of successive mortgagees depends on the date when the mortgagee gives notice to the debtor or trustee.
177. Successive governments have failed to tackle the problem of international debt.
178. The movement of the tide is well illustrated by the successive books of Monteverdi's madrigals.
179. No medical text has ever been so widely used by successive generations of medical students and doctors.
180. And for the second successive year, the St Helens based group is forced to cut its dividend.
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.