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Example sentences for: succeed

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He apparently had heard proposals for rolling back al Qaeda but felt that catching terrorists one by one or even cell by cell was not an approach likely to succeed in the long run.
' That is said scornfully or dismissively," says historian and Brinkley mentor Ambrose, who tapped Brinkley to succeed him as director of University of New Orleans' Eisenhower Center.
Indonesia watchers at the IMF believe that this "civilian face/military fist" strategy can succeed in Indonesia so long as the military remains united.
He not only has his own ego willing him to succeed, but also shareholders.
The guardians of Scotland were unable to decide who should succeed and asked the English king, Edward I, to adjudicate.