Powell's bright start continued with a further three victories, before running into a dreadful downturn which saw the club go 11 games in succession without a win.

A succession of German victories in northeastern France followed, and one French army was besieged at Metz.

Clovis then recorded a succession of victories against other Germanic tribes such as the Alamanni at Tolbiac.

Brabham competed in Australia and New Zealand until early 1955, taking " a long succession of victories ", including the 1953 Queensland Road Racing championship.

During the time of the Fifth Coalition, the Royal Navy won a succession of victories in the French colonies.

After a succession of victories, the English held great possessions in France, the French king was in English custody, and the French central government had almost totally collapsed.

His main focus was to restore Quebeckers ' pride in their identity by knowledge of history, both the heroic acts of New France and the French Canadian and self-government rights obtained through a succession of important political victories: 1774, the Quebec Act recognized the rights of the Quebec province and its people with respect to French law, Catholic religion and the French language ; in 1848, responsible government was finally obtained after decades of struggle, along with the rights of the French language ; in 1867, the autonomy of the province of Quebec was restored as Lower Canada was an essential partner in the creation of a new Dominion through Confederation Confederation canadienne, Montreal, Quebec 10 / 10, 1978 ( 1918 ).

The newly confident Athenian fleet proceeded to win two more victories in the Hellespont in quick succession, the second being the dramatic rout at Cyzicus, which ended the immediate Spartan threat to Athens ' Black Sea lifeline.

He won a succession of victories in 1555 in defending Taizhou.

The win allowed Hill to retain a slight mathematical chance of winning the championship, and made him the first driver in F1 World Championship history to score his first three victories in succession.

On the 26th of November 2011, a club record of consecutive away victories was broken with the Sandgrounder's 1 – 0 win at Stockport County, their 8th in succession.

While the success of the tourists was attributed to their powerful bowling attack, C. B. Fry described the English victories as " a succession of triumphs for Jack Hobbs and Rhodes as first wicket batsmen.

For the second year in a row were dominant, winning their first eight games in succession, and enjoying a number of comprehensive victories on the season: 4-0 over Nevada Wonders, 5-1 over Abbotsford Rangers and 5-2 over Spokane Shadow.

They were relatively unknown until a succession of victories in dog trials by the breed increased its popularity.

* Back to Basics, a government policy slogan portrayed by opponents and the press as a morality campaign to compare it with a contemporaneous succession of sex scandals in John Major's government which led to the resignation of Tim Yeo and the Earl of Caithness, among others ( 1994 )

After Smith's death, a succession crisis ensued, and the majority voted to accept the Quorum of the Twelve, led by Brigham Young, as the church's leading body.

At the start of 1986, Essendon were considered unbackable for three successive flags, but a succession of injuries to key players Paul Van der Haar ( only fifteen games from 1986 to 1988 ), Tim Watson, Darren Williams, Roger Merrett and Simon Madden led the club to win only eight of its last eighteen games in 1986 and only nine games ( plus a draw with Geelong ) in 1987.

A succession crisis following the death of the last Capetian monarch in 1337 led to the series of conflicts known as the Hundred Years ' War between the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet.

Continual fragmentation of parties and a succession of minority governments led conservative forces to merge the Liberal Party ( Jiyuto ) with the Japan Democratic Party ( Nihon Minshuto ), an offshoot of the earlier Democratic Party, to form the Liberal Democratic Party ( Jiyu-Minshuto ; LDP ) in November 1955.

Foot took a back seat in Labour politics after 1983 and retired from the House of Commons at the 1992 general election, when Labour lost to the Tories ( now led by John Major ) for the fourth election in succession, but remained politically active.

By 1719 dynastic succession led to the nomination of Saif ibn Sultan II.

He headed the SDP campaign of 2003, which led to victory for the SDP ; however, the Center Party gained more seats, which marked the end for the succession of the cabinets of the SDP and the National Coalition Party.

Hamad bin Abdullah's death in 1948, however, led to a succession crisis in which the main candidates were Abdullah bin Jassim's eldest son, Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani, and Hamad bin Abdullah's teenage son, Khalifa ibn Hamad Al Thani.

The practice of marriage alliances was common among medieval royalty: it allowed families to stake claims of succession on each other's lands, and led to political alliances and peace treaties.

This often led to rebellions and wars of succession.

The difficulties over the succession led to a loss of authority in Normandy, with the aristocracy regaining much of the power they had lost to the elder William.

The death of the pro-British Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini on 25 August 1896 and the succession of Sultan Khalid bin Barghash, who the British did not approve, led to the Anglo-Zanzibar War.

Her death while en route to Scotland, sparked off the disputed succession which led to the Wars of Scottish Independence.

During his reign, a succession dispute broke out between the houses of Welf and Staufen, the latter which was led by Frederick II and his brother Duke Conrad of Franconia.

Due to his abrupt death in ambush, Sviatoslav's conquests, for the most part, were not consolidated into a functioning empire, while his failure to establish a stable succession led to fratricidal feud among his sons, resulting in two of his three sons being killed.

He died in 1574, succeeded by his eldest surviving son Francesco, whose inability to produce male heirs led to the succession of his younger brother, Ferdinando, upon his death in 1587.

Commodus's assassination led to a succession crisis, the so-called Year of the Five Emperors, which culminated in the ascension of a soldier-emperor, Septimius Severus, who, despite giving the Empire a peaceful reign, was accused by Gibbon of catalysing the Crisis of the Third Century, a period of economic, political and military crisis that, together with the Germanic invasions and the rise of the Sassanid Persian Empire in the East, almost led the Empire to collapse.

The death of John VI in 1826 led to a crisis of royal succession.

Manuel II stood on friendly terms with the victor in the Ottoman civil war, Mehmed I ( 1402 – 1421 ), but his attempts to meddle in the next contested succession led to a new assault on Constantinople by Murad II ( 1421 – 1451 ) in 1422.

This left the country without an obvious heir, and led to the succession dispute known to history as the Great Cause.

The schisms stemming from a succession crisis have led to differing views about the role and use of temples between various groups with competing succession claims.

The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, took advantage of the confusion and the weakness of the Western Empire in the wake of Valentinian's turbulent succession, moved to Italy and sacked Rome.

The firm lost three of its name partners in short succession in the 1970s: Randall LeBoeuf in 1975, Adrian Leiby in 1976, and Horace Lamb in 1977.

George II took this opportunity to offer it to Sir Robert Walpole, often called the first Prime Minister, as a gift for his services to the nation: stabilising its finances, keeping it at peace and securing the Hanoverian succession.

He inherited strong Whig principles and was a loyal supporter of the Hanoverian Protestant succession, but also admired Sir Robert Walpole ’ s peaceful foreign policy.

Legge only shared temporarily in the downfall of Walpole, and became in quick succession Surveyor-General of Woods and Forests, a Lord of the Admiralty, and a Lord of the Treasury.

The year of its première was important, for Queen Anne was in serious illness at the time, and both the Tory ministry of the day and the Whig opposition ( already being led by Robert Walpole ) were concerned about the succession.

In the 1720s, George II, then Prince of Wales, had opposed his father bitterly and aligned himself with the Tory party, while his father fostered Robert Walpole ( thanks to Walpole's playing up of suggestions that the Tories disapproved of the Hanoverian succession ).