successive government

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In order to do this, rival factions worked with successive governments to purge their enemies from their town councils.
Successive governments (usually from the technocratic ministries) announced plans to push for market-oriented changes.
Instead, successive governments have tried to cool down tempers and resolve the issues at stake at the local level.
Despite successive governments' remarkable ability to enact and implement sweeping changes, the promised payoff in improved economic welfare was slow to materialize.
The effects of the science policies of successive governments are there for all to see and should not make comfortable reading for the policy-makers involved.
In the meantime, successive governments continued the policy of overvaluing the cedi.
More generally, are social care markets structured in a way that will generate the efficiency improvements that successive governments expect of them?
The first law of amnesty for already built gecekondu (shacks built "overnight") enacted in 194950 was followed by similar pieces of legislation under successive governments.
Successive governments appointed in the 1980s failed to respond to the early stages of crisis much past rhetoric.
Successive governments responded with import controls, which fell disproportionately on consumer goods.
In addition, youth unemployment was given a high priority in employment policies under successive governments.
Constraints on treatments are largely absent, and successive governments have struggled unsuccessfully to control health care expenditures.
Five successive governments rose and fell in less than a decade.
If all that was true in the relations between government and the broader society, it was even truer of relations within successive governments, of both political persuasions.
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