7 sentences with 'succeed'
Example sentences and phrases with the word succeed and other words derived from it.
• « Henry the tinkerer was unable to succeed on his own, and he jeopardized the investment of his backers. »
• « His commanders try to prevent him from taking part in the fighting, but they don't always succeed. »
• « The Sophists focused on training elite Greeks to succeed - the Greek term for "virtue" was synonymous with "success". »
• « Occasionally, a poorer Roman citizen could petition an emperor personally for redress and succeed, as could the occasional provincial to a governor, but the vast majority of the time the poor (citizens and non-citizens alike) were simply at the mercy of the elite landowners. »
• « When the western empire fell, the archbishops of Rome had begun their attempts to assert their authority over the church (however, they would not succeed even in the west for many centuries). These assertions were never accepted in the East, where it was the emperor who had the final say in matters of religious doctrine. »