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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a business succeeds
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Making a business succeed is not simple.
an appeal fails/succeeds
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If the appeal fails, he will serve his full sentence.
an attempt fails/succeeds
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All attempts to find a cure have failed.
fail/succeed in your attempt
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He failed in his attempt to set a new Olympic record.
successive/succeeding generations (= generations that follow one another )
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This medical textbook has been used by successive generations of medical students and doctors.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
in
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Of course, no municipal system succeeds in totally eliminating the use of force.
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Lieutenants Peel and Maloney succeeded in so alarming the men that they decided to march to join Paredes and the revolutionists.
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Not only had he won a match he was desperate to succeed in , he had also earned his Liverpool colours.
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Republicans, battered as they are in the public opinion polls, succeeded in dramatically transforming the terms of the national debate.
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Despite their new-found power, however, they did not succeed in totally obliterating what had been before.
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What would happen if my parents succeeded in getting my student grant revoked, which well they might?
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You will be able to tackle and succeed in almost anything provided you set about the problem in the right way.
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By 1996 the strategy had succeeded in significantly expanding the scope of school-to-work in Tulsa.
never
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The loop will never succeed in removing the conditionality.
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I was convinced that without a college degree I could never succeed .
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We shall never succeed in reaching an agreement on how far back we must go.
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He had never succeeded , and now he was old enough to understand why.
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Throughout his time in Darlington he maintained that the football club would never succeed while it played at Feethams.
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As ward of the king I and my lands would be free of Master Higham; otherwise I might never succeed .
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They've never succeeded: sickness, hunger, wanderlust, something drives them on.
only
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Criteria belong to an explanation of identity claims, but an explanation succeeds only in the context of what can be understood.
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But too many nasty ads succeed only in making all candidates unpopular.
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We shall only succeed in dealing with the problems through a vast international cooperative effort.
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That succeeded only partially in the setting, but the costumes were attractive.
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Triumphant Rome tried to exterminate the Church of Mary, but only succeeded in driving it underground.
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They can only succeed by imposing long-run discipline upon capitalists.
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She tried to get out of it, but only succeeded in making herself the last to sing.
where
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But they will not succeed where the law has failed.
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Mairs succeeds where many others have failed by being not only an engaging writer, but an engaging thinker.
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Its long-suffering shareholders are to get the opportunity to succeed where the government failed in 1982, and break the company up.
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He had succeeded where I had quit, and I almost burst with pride.
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Mr Rifkind will deserve warm praise if he can succeed where several incumbents have failed.
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Why did the Board of Delegates succeed where past organizing efforts had failed?
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In two other important areas, Johnson succeeded where Kennedy had failed.
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Instead, they are buoyed by positive illusions that they can break new ground or succeed where others have failed.
■ NOUN
chance
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I didn't have a chance to succeed without even trying failure.
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Students in these schools also were more optimistic about their chances of succeeding after high school.
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This experience gave him at least a chance of succeeding in the Caucasus.
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But Platt, at 25, has every chance of eventually succeeding Pearce who is five years older.
father
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He is expected to be inaugurated next week, becoming the first president to succeed his father in an Arab republic.
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Sometimes the Senate would decree that the son of a deceased emperor was unfit to succeed his father .
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He succeeds his father , Wallace D.. Iott, 80, who continues as chairman of the company.
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In 1240 Edward succeeded his father as keeper of the king's works at Westminster, which then chiefly concerned the palace.
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Peyton was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1655, having also succeeded his father as an examiner in Chancery in 1654.
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He succeeded his father , Hesychius, as bishop of Vienne, in or about 490.
success
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Initially nothing succeeds like success: but eventually success exceeds itself, and decline and despondency set in.
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But we also succeeded , and our successes fueled us.
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Nothing succeeded so much as success for the organization.
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Nothing succeeds like success and it applies perfectly to the Sainsbury family, their 100,000 employees and 60,000 shareholders.
throne
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This, then, was the situation when Mary succeeded to the throne , and the rival factions lined up.
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Wenceslaus' son succeeded to the throne .
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When he succeeded to the throne in 1625, Buckingham became his chief minister.
will
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Despite all its problems the Club had a strong will to succeed and was rarely despondent.
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She had enough guts coupled with an ego that nurtures the will to succeed .
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Nor will managers succeed by putting greater emphasis on planning or simply overlapping various stages in the development process.
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First, will Airbus succeed even without government support?
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He thinks everybody has the same blind will to succeed as himself.
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The Edinburgh Summit will tell us whether it has a real will to succeed .
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Call his machines what you will-sculptures , utopian models, proposals, follies-they reflect a will to succeed .
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Immigrants tend to be a highly motivated, self-selected group with a strong will to succeed .
■ VERB
hope
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If the old man had been home. the ruse could hardly hope to succeed .
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A Humphrey-type campaign to bypass the primaries and seek the nomination at the convention itself could no longer hope to succeed .
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We must all hope the negotiations succeed and that perhaps we may even see Bobby Fischer on the regular tournament circuit.
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Cruttwell remains to be rewritten; but whoever embarks upon that task can not hope to succeed without Strachan at his elbow.
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I hope that we shall succeed in doing that, especially with regard to special inspections of previously undeclared sites.
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And you'd better hope we succeed .
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I am particularly proud of this scheme and I sincerely hope it will succeed .
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There is still hope that talks can succeed .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A lot of people doubted that I could succeed in business for myself.
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a strong desire to succeed
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As long as the financial crisis continues, economic reform cannot possibly succeed .
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Bailey will succeed Fuller as Director of Operations.
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Both sides could make these talks succeed by seeking a real and lasting peace.
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By the early '90s, CDs had succeeded records in popularity.
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Eisenhower was succeeded by John F. Kennedy.
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Even in remote areas people open restaurants, and surprisingly enough, they succeed .
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George VI died in 1952, leaving his elder daughter Elizabeth to succeed him.
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I'm sure you'll succeed if you work hard.
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I admired Goldie, because she had succeeded at a task that had even defeated my mother.
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I tried to reassure Billy's mother that it was a passing phase, but I don't think I succeeded.
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If you don't change your attitude, you will never succeed as a manager in this firm.
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In one year, we've succeeded in increasing profits by 40%.
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Louis XIII succeeded to the throne when he was only nine years old.
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Muir succeeds where other designers have failed -- her clothes are original, yet stylish.
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My parents always told me I'd succeed at anything I chose to do.
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None of the measures taken by the government have succeeded in reducing the spread of violent crime.
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People who have had setbacks are often the ones who are really driven to succeed .
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She wanted to be the first woman to climb Mount Everest and she almost succeeded.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Choose varieties which will succeed in your area, and which are on a rootstock to give the desired rate of growth.
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If it succeeds, it may deter at least some outrages in a future war.
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If the project succeeds, the choice is between making and marketing the product or abandoning it.
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If you can succeed in school, you can succeed in life.
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Mr Grant, who lives near Dingwall, will succeed Robert Crawford.
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She succeeds Bonnie Fuller who will join Cosmopolitan as deputy editor.
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Some of these women took grave risks to start their businesses and faced even more danger when they succeeded.