"succession" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The years were not numbered in a linear succession but according to a particular pharaoh's reign, each mounting the throne in the year 1, and also according to the levy of taxes.
- However, both authors are far from any technological determinism, which would read history as the linear succession of technological progress.
- Look no further for proof that art history is less a linear succession of movements than a crazy quilt.
- No small part, however, was played by Dmitri Donskoi's will, which ran contrary to Rurikid dynastic custom whereby the throne would pass from an elder brother to a younger one (lateral inheritance), rather than from father to son (linear succession).
- In a convenient piece of straw-man targeting, he appears to imagine that all grand narratives are ruthlessly exclusivist and flatten everything to a mechanical linear succession.
- The other three groups do not maintain a similar model of linear patriarchal succession.
- However, the delivering of the consolamentum, on which historical Catharism was based, required a linear succession by a bon homme in good standing.
- The story of the evolution of modern humans can be a bit confusing, species-wise, with many early hominins co-existing without an obvious linear succession.
- Eliade argues that yearning to remain in the mythical age causes a "terror of history": traditional man desires to escape the linear succession of events (which, Eliade indicated, he viewed as empty of any inherent value or sacrality).
- Thus it was only with Vasily II that the Muscovite princes were finally able to break the long-held tradition of collateral succession and establish a system of linear succession to the Muscovite throne.
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