The self seems to move through the various stages of such experiences and to hold them together in larger and larger unities until, finally, the end of the sequence is seen to fulfill the representation at the beginning of the experience. (religion-online.org)
Each of the speeches ends with a reference to the next person to whom God shall speak, until he arrives in the end of the sequence at a word about death, which returns us to his own word of command and warning in chapter 2. (firstthings.com)
Cameron's ambitious and yet puny re-negotiation, the wariness of EU members and the dismissiveness of Tory MPs would not matter if it were not for the in / out referendum being staged at the end of the sequence. (totalpolitics.com)