| After the man succumbs to his injuries, Richard is blamed for his death but gives a false name to the police so as not to shame his family. |
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| She resists his advances for a while, but soon succumbs, and the two begin a torrid and wind-swept romance that carries on throughout the war. |
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| This once-promising art district succumbs to vigorous development and its concomitant desiccative effect. |
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| In fact, one out of every 2.4 women succumbs to heart disease, making it the leading cause of death among women. |
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| Unfortunately it succumbs to its meaner instincts in the second half, indulging in romantic schmaltz with the occasional inspired comic riff. |
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| Even the primal urge for physical activity succumbs to superficiality and materialism in the end. |
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| But Sarsgaard dangles enough money in front of her that she succumbs to the lure of cold hard cash. |
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| Dangers never succumbs to the temptation to phone it in, and he never relegates himself to simply giving in and playing generic pop music. |
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| Andie, the academic straight arrow, succumbs to the temptation to cheat on an important exam. |
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| Why one person walks in and responds to chemo and the other does not and succumbs to their illness is still somewhat of a mystery. |
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| Inexorably, the time arrives when the individual succumbs to these and eventually yields to death. |
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| Experiments suggest that this change occurs once the rough fescue, a deep-rooted perennial grass, succumbs to overgrazing. |
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| First, she succumbs to the schoolyard taunts of a group of girls and gets into a fight. |
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| The symptoms may last for a period of two to six months before the animal actually succumbs to the disease. |
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| This is an unbreakable biological law among animals. After a certain time each animal follows a fixed path, or succumbs. |
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| The dance finally succumbs to gravity as the dancers explore their relationships to one another on the ground. |
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| However, there will be 63 other competitors in the draw looking to ensure that the world's second-ranked finally succumbs to that first defeat. |
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| As a pledge of the baron's love, he asks Octavian to carry a silver rose to Sophie, but she immediately succumbs to the teenager's charms. |
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| There is a danger that the essence of higher education will be lost if it succumbs to unconstrained populism. |
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| She hides in the airing cupboard for hours, writes endless haikus until she falls asleep from exhaustion and succumbs to screaming fits and bouts of a strange fever. |
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| Trying to quit drinking but picked on by everyone, especially the Devil, Sharky succumbs to a jug of poteen and erupts in a scenery-bashing rage. |
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| A weak and dull-witted man sees the hand of providence when he is confronted by a strong and powerful adversary and succumbs to him. |
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| They then sneak into a utility closet, where Olivia first slaps Fitz, then succumbs to the hookup. |
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| The life raft carrying survivors of the Seafaring Legend succumbs to the will of a strong wave surge. |
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| Her kindness and her spontaneousness are so contagious that one succumbs to her charm. |
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| More broadly, this wire report succumbs to the senseless rehashing of celebrity stories about ghost writing. |
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| If Slovenia succumbs, it would be the first former communist country in the euro area to need aid. |
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| Yet for 20 years he gets away with passing off his funny money because he never succumbs to greed. |
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| But somehow the average human often succumbs to his everyday habits and is blinded by the light of his own needs. |
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| There is to us an all-embracing moderation linked to the delights of our weather, which rarely succumbs to the outbursts of violence that maim people and flatten buildings. |
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| While this production occasionally succumbs to staginess, often it plays to the text's strengths by using slight movements offset by moments of deliberate exaggeration. |
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| My mother, so vital to the end, finally succumbs to heart disease. |
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| When scarlet fever decimates the population of Saint-Antoine-Abbé in 1888, young Éva Archambeault succumbs to the virus in February before receiving her report card. |
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| Lucie falls into a depression and on their wedding night stabs the bridegroom, succumbs to insanity, and dies. |
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| This is an intriguing, intelligent book and the third outing for John March, so it is perhaps surprising that Mr Spiegelman still succumbs to the novice novelist's temptation to provide overlong description. |
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| For Gilles finds pleasure, to say it mildly, in painting, Painting procures him not only pleasure but is a vital need and an irresistible force to which he happily succumbs. |
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| But the Government seems increasingly unwilling to tolerate any sort of criticism, and it readily succumbs to the temptation to invoke the broad defamation laws. |
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| Today, notwithstanding the existence of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, processes such as denaturalization and deportation show the vulnerability of individual rights when government succumbs to ignorance and fear. |
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| It tries, to some extent, to resist the temptation to spiritualize Kate by finding meaning or comfort in her terrible situation even as it succumbs, in the end, to creepy and unconvincing redemptive impulses. |
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| Vegetation, made vulnerable by the stress of a changing climatic environment often falls prey to insects or pathogens, or succumbs to competition. |
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| Retaliation against fanatics using force alone succumbs to their logic. |
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| Elaine Cassidy superbly communicates a state of growingly feverish chastity that succumbs only when she's duped into thinking that it is a kind of religious mission to save Valmont from despair. |
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| Now tourists plan trips to see the ivory-bill before it succumbs. |
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| It is the nature of temptation to make sinful things seem the more attractive, and it is the fallen nature of humans that seeks or succumbs to the attraction. |
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