predecessor

How To Use predecessor In A Sentence

• She probably didn't appreciate that the master was without jurisdiction to make that order since her predecessor had obtained it.
• Modern soldiers are far less responsive to shouting than their predecessors. Times, Sunday Times
• Even the chief civil authority of the town was deterred from sallying forth by a remembrance of a predecessor in the provostship who had been buried in a stable mixen all but his head, to the detriment of his clothes and the still greater and more lasting hurt to his dignity. Patsy
• Parker also said that much of what Rhee achieved in contract talks already existed in D.C. law but was not used by her predecessors, including the power to weaken seniority protections for teachers who are "excessed," or let go from their jobs because of school closures. D.C. Teachers' Union election will affect survival of Rhee's initiatives
• Like its predecessor, the new regime is for individual achievement, not collective action.
• With inebriated puppets and an eerie soundtrack, consider it a shoddier predecessor to Thunderbirds. 2009 June : Scrubbles.net
• Rhetoric aside, his policies were hardly distinguishable from those of his predecessors.
• Bethmann-Hollweg, had given to his predecessor, Herr von Flotow. The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers
• This gripping prequel to the 1982 sci-fi classic of the same name is just as exciting as its predecessor. The Sun
• Success attended him, and the pacha, his predecessor, having in his opinion, as well as in that of the sultan, remained an unusual time in office, by an accusation enforced by a thousand purses of gold, he was enabled to produce a bowstring for his benefactor; and the sultan's "firmaun" appointed him to the vacant pachalik. The Pacha of Many Tales