Édouard Balladur resigned as prime minister and foreign minister Alain Juppé succeeded him.

Sri Lanka in 1994 also marked the first time that a female prime minister directly succeeded another female prime minister.

At the Congress of Vienna, Frederick William's ministers succeeded in securing important territorial increases for Prussia.

The minister meekly complied with her wish and succeeded in winning back her company and love.

By interfering with popular electoral rights, the king and his ministers succeeded in assembling a servile diet in 1851 that surrendered the privileges gained since 1848.

However, the minister succeeded in modifying the bill, so that any executive of the university can be elected president.

Haiti, torn by weeks of unrest and decades of misgovernment, badly needs its newly appointed prime minister, Gérard Latortue, to succeed.

It meant that a liberal and a conservative prime minister would succeed each other ending the strifes.

Gómez's minister of war, Eleazar López Contreras, succeeded him: a tall, thin, disciplined soldier with a solid education.

He was ordained minister at Montpellier, and about 1595 succeeded his father at Montélimar.