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Altogether, the team watched the brain activity of 39 people as they grappled with sticking with their choice or succumbing to peer pressure.

Put an Angus bull on a tropical pasture and “he’s probably going to last maybe a month before he succumbs to the environment,” says Oatley, while a Nelore bull carrying Angus sperm would have no problem with the climate.

Benedict herself succumbed to heart trouble several years later, in 1948.

Instead of succumbing to the frog’s digestive juices, an eaten Regimbartia attenuata traverses the amphibian’s throat, swims through the stomach, slides along the intestines and climbs out the frog’s butt, alive and well.

In the 19th century, soldiers sent to Haiti by Napoleon Bonaparte to quash rebellion succumbed to yellow fever, leading to Haitian independence and Napoleon’s sale of the territory of Louisiana to the United States.

For the first time, my stamina seemed inclined to succumb before it.

Do not fumble with it, or succumb to the insinuating temptation of clinging to what is so effective.

Was he likely to give in or to succumb to a woman like Mrs. Bell?

Oddly enough, the country where the movement began was the last to succumb completely.

“Why, I thought so myself,” said Morris, in a tone of discontent at having to succumb to the general belief.