What's the difference between prosper and succeed?

Prosper


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To favor; to render successful.
  • (v. i.) To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain.
  • (v. i.) To grow; to increase.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
  • (2) The referendum shows that democracy really sucks – that democracy does not deliver stability, prosperity [or] responsible government,” Tsang said.
  • (3) There is a mutual interest in keeping prosperity that exists and has built over the years.” But Pisani-Ferry said Macron would certainly not seek to punish Britain.
  • (4) Kirkby is not a particularly prosperous town,” says Matt Donnelly, 27.
  • (5) Today we vote for reforms that will allow us to build a stronger Fifa so football can prosper in the long run and so the events of the last months will never happen again,” he added.
  • (6) "King Hamad understands that Bahrain cannot prosper if he rules by repression," the US ambassador reported in December 2009 .
  • (7) If Davos is a closed shop for the wealthy and powerful elites who caused today’s global inequality, it won’t come up with the answers needed for a more fair and prosperous future for all the world’s workers and their families.
  • (8) I want to spread prosperity to every corner of our country.
  • (9) Today, we have come to a broader and more nuanced understanding of this age-old imperative: how to better balance the development needs of a growing world population – so all may enjoy the fruits of prosperity and robust economic growth – with the necessity of conserving our planet's most precious resources: land, air and water.
  • (10) The Conservative peer and chancellor of the University of Oxford took the view – rightly – two decades ago that Hong Kong’s prosperity was underpinned by a free and plural society.
  • (11) "I look forward to working together for the future prosperity of my country," she was quoted as saying.
  • (12) These projects served the broader purpose of European integration, but they overlooked critical flaws in the architecture of monetary union that need to be decisively addressed so that the euro fulfils its promise of economic prosperity and prevents Europe from slipping even more into division and discontent.
  • (13) In his time away, Alwash had married an American, and prospered as a partner in a engineering company.
  • (14) I would say we need to make some difficult decisions and therefore austerity now and prosperity later."
  • (15) She added: This is about the European Union, in our neighbourhood actually working with the people and politicians in Ukraine to try and ensure a stable and prosperous future for all of them.
  • (16) I think that’s why 70% of the public now supports public ownership … the passengers pay a premium for privatisation.” For Cash, the short changing of passengers to benefit a few shareholders is symptomatic of the current regime – austerity for the many and prosperity for the few.
  • (17) Local unemployment is around 3.7% and Chorley, with its 300 farms and old families, is quietly prosperous.
  • (18) For those who believed that overthrowing communism would bring immediate prosperity and right the wrongs of the past, the fact that they were still poor while communist officials profited from the transition made it seem like the old order had not really been overthrown.
  • (19) The old divisions between rich and poor countries, the climate polluters of the past and the rising economies now spewing out carbon in their rush to prosperity, were wearing away, they said.
  • (20) We're all human beings, we all wish for prosperity, we all wish for better health for our children, better education for our children; for better standards of living and quality of life regardless of where we live, and that is really what unites us.

Succeed


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer.
  • (v. t.) To fall heir to; to inherit.
  • (v. t.) To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
  • (v. t.) To support; to prosper; to promote.
  • (v. i.) To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to.
  • (v. i.) Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.
  • (v. i.) To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
  • (v. i.) To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful; as, he succeeded in his plans; his plans succeeded.
  • (v. i.) To go under cover.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.
  • (2) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
  • (3) Henderson was given permission to join Fulham when Brendan Rodgers arrived at Anfield in 2012 but has since developed into an important asset for the Liverpool manager, to the extent that the 24-year-old is the leading candidate to succeed Steven Gerrard as club captain when the 34-year-old leaves for LA Galaxy.
  • (4) Inhalation of allergen by sensitised asthmatics results in an acute increase of airways resistance that, in some individuals, is succeeded by a response of late-onset.
  • (5) An attempt to eliminate the age effect by adjusting for age differences in monaural shadowing errors, fluid intelligence, and pure-tone hearing loss did not succeed.
  • (6) The transient shortening of WBCLT was succeeded by a tendency to prolongation of the lysis time.
  • (7) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
  • (8) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.
  • (9) Corden, a big star in the UK since he made his name with BBC comedy Gavin and Stacey but still a relative unknown in the US, will succeed Craig Ferguson who will step down from the show after a decade.
  • (10) We have learned that only a revolutionary approach – one that unites revolutionary forces from across the political spectrum – will succeed in rebuilding our country.
  • (11) They moved to shore up May’s position after a weekend of damaging leaks and briefings from inside the cabinet, believed to be fuelled by some of those jostling to succeed the prime minister after her disastrous election result.
  • (12) Földi succeeded in producing experimentally the syndrome of "lymphostatic encephalopathy and ophthalmopathy" by operative blockade of the cervical lymphatics in animals.
  • (13) A simple theory of growth rate in the presence of radiation is presented, and the agreement with the observations implies that there is no effect of any sublethal low dose rate radiation received in one generation on the growth rate or radiation sensitivity of the succeeding generation.
  • (14) Campbell said that for the new initiative to succeed there needed to be a fundamental overhaul in the way sports clubs were organised and a determined move to professionalise coaching.
  • (15) The insertion of stent was succeeded in all 4 cases, and the improvement of clinical symptoms and elevation of ankle pressure index were observed.
  • (16) Whatever the lesion, all the rats succeeded in learning the task but some differences appeared in comparison with intact and sham-operated rats.
  • (17) Rebels succeeded in hitting one of the helicopters with a Tow missile, forcing it to make an emergency landing.
  • (18) Our model is a development of previous models, but differs in several respects: the overall activity is assumed to be dependent on the error level, the effect of errors in the translating system, giving rise to additional errors in the succeeding generation of products, is explicitly included as a special term in our model, and scavenging enzymes are assumed to break down and eliminate products with a loose structure.
  • (19) The prime minister, Tony Abbott , said on Thursday he was comfortable with being accused of secrecy on asylum seeker policy so long as the policies succeeded in stopping the boats.
  • (20) Gordon Brown, who had long wanted to be more involved in the campaign, stepped in to replace the man who had, six years earlier, succeeded him as prime minister.