if at first you don't succeed, try, try again

Examples of succeeding

succeeding

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The book has three parts : a brief introduction and a useful overview of succeeding chapters by the editors.
This was a desperate attempt by whig leaders to embarrass a succeeding tory government and carry themselves back into office.
Getting this right can be quite tricky and not doing it may prevent cut or contraction elimination from succeeding correctly.
Such extended longevity means that two generations in the family exist, often independently, for long periods, which delays the transfer of wealth between succeeding generations.
Successive groups residing in suburbs have remade those places as they settled in a given suburb, succeeding earlier settlers.
This can only be possible if the perceiver of the similarity of the entities of the preceding and succeeding moments be the same.
Data in the succeeding section on moth emergence in the winter serve to explain the increase in oviposition.
But these children will encounter very different events in the succeeding years as they try to acquire profiles that are adaptive for their living situation.
Moreover, the future bestowal of the property on succeeding generations was also usually provided for in these marriage agreements.
The incorporation of indigo as green manure coincided with land preparation for the succeeding rice crop.
However, the fundamental directions that his work took were of the utmost importance for succeeding thinkers.
Succeeding sections are devoted to proofs of special cases, culminating in the proof of the theorem itself.
A beneficial effect is an aspect of an adaptation that increases the probability that its carrier's alleles will have copies in succeeding generations.
Lexicographers, like poets, seem able to bestow a special blessing on the succeeding generations who carry on the craft.
Extract-treated sand barriers deterred tunnelling completely for 2-4 days at the higher extract concentrations tested, although partial penetration was seen in succeeding days.
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