The "ambiance" of each successive meeting improved, he said.

It was the third successive meeting of these two teams with the Munster men looking for a third title in-a-row.

This aspiration was put to successive meetings, until in 1599 the kingdom's audience accepted the Galician cities' demands, and agreed to negotiate exclusively that subject.

The other notable contentious issue in successive meetings was the demand by most African nations for the suspension of Rhodesia.

The European Commission has recommended that Macedonia begin accession talks in three successive meetings since 2009.

Churchill pressed the issue at successive meetings of the War Council in 1914.

Ever closer union'is an objective which has been reaffirmed and defined time after time in successive meetings of the European Council.

This was the first of five successive final meetings between the two clubs.

In successive meetings, the Council of Ministers has failed to achieve a qualified majority on this public health requirement.

For more than two years, successive vituperative public meetings did little to resolve differences.