carry to completion

Then the sperm cannot move to its destination; the fertilized egg cannot carry to completion its complex divisions and elaborations.

After a Cabinet meeting toward the end of November, 1908, I was talking with the President regarding various phases of the administration of my Department, and I mentioned one or two matters that I hoped my successor would carry to completion.

She is “bossy,” lovable, impatient and loyal, a born manager, whose plans invariably work out to satisfactory conclusions, and Linda has a definite plan which gradually unfolds in these books written about her—the sort of plan only a girl without a home and parents of her own could think of and carry to completion.

The Fed also affirmed that it would carry to completion a plan to purchase $600 billion in Treasury securities by the end of June, and said that it would continue to hold short-term interest rates near zero, as it has done for more than two years.

He said: "I have watched with eagerness the struggle through which he has passed and the disasters which attended his early efforts; and I have admired and applauded, from the bottom of my heart, the tenacity of purpose with which that man has continued to hold on to his original idea, with a firm faith to carry to completion one of the greatest works the world has ever seen."