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
Instead of the bass tuba is its predecessor, the ophicleide.
The justice secretary is blaming her predecessors for the crisis in prisons and says that there are too few officers to run them properly. Times, Sunday Times
He also expressed pleasure to be following in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessor Charles Darwin.
These small detractions don't stop Raimi's film from being a superlative movie, a rare sequel that betters its predecessor, a rare blockbuster that has an emotional heart.
His philosophical musings were a complete departure from the cynical lies of his predecessors. Times, Sunday Times
But it is still true that the new president takes on a challenge different in nature from recent predecessors. Times, Sunday Times
The church's address is always given as Spanish Place, because of its historic links - its predecessor was a Spanish embassy chape. Archive 2007-09-01
Here are some of the princess's illustrious predecessors who have made a name for themselves. The Sun
Martyrs did not entirely disappear, but they were different from their late antique predecessors; they might be bishops killed in political strife, missionaries killed by pagans, or confessors being ‘living dead’.
When later poets in an uncritical age take up and rehandle the poetic themes of their predecessors, they always give to the stories "a new costume," as M. Gaston Paris remarks in reference to thirteenth century dealings with French epics of the eleventh century. Homer and His Age
The paper was successively folded over or covered so that each participant could not see what his or her predecessor had done.
Less belligerent in its audience pandering than its predecessors (less fart jokes, less homophobic subtext, and - thank Jesus - less squawking from Eddie Murphy), Shrek the Third may not give haters a migraine, but its lobotomized sense of comic brinkmanship is still without fun. GreenCine Daily: Shrek the Third.
Many of today's performers have had more formal dance training than their predecessors, embellishing the old bump-and-grind with samba, tap, belly dancing, jazz, hula, even capoeira.
Ministers were as anxious as their predecessors to preserve Britain's privileged position in the Western alliance.
Like its predecessors, the novel comes dripping in satire, but this time of a more avowedly self-reflexive nature. The Times Literary Supplement
It was on that vacation that Roosevelt coined the term "bully pulpit" and brushed aside concerns about his vacation safety so soon after his predecessor was assassinated. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
He stands to guide me to the door, then stops to point out a photo of himself looking somewhat starstruck and goofy-grinned beside four hoary men, his mayoral predecessors.
I know it is fashionable to say that our predecessors never tried to settle anything.
Like its predecessor, "The Lost Symbol" offers a mini-course in arcane historical detail (did you know that the Capitol once had an eternal flame burning beneath the floor under its rotunda?). Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
The IPPF has received millions of dollars annually from the Conservative government and its predecessor Liberal governments since the mid-1980s. ProWomanProLife » The minister, who is of course pro-choice…
It is because it is so hard to find a way of cutting spending without imperilling access to justice that his predecessors – Labour as well as Conservative – have failed to do more than slow its growth, despite 30 consultation exercises in the past four years. Legal aid cuts: Scales of justice | Editorial
Our predecessors of a century ago or in the midst of the Second World War would be astounded at how acquiescent our policy-makers are about this prospect.
The first-term MPP for Mississauga South has been meeting with Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Brad Duguid to make sure he doesn't back away from his predecessor's pledge. MISSISSAUGA - Home
Not a month goes by but someone else flees the sinking ship, following in the tiny footsteps of their predecessors, the shipside rodents. America is Lost--and We Lost It
But the Joyce-Eliot group come later in time, puritanism is not their main adversary, they are able from the start to see through most of the things that their predecessors had fought for. Inside the Whale
While she enjoys a honeymoon period, her predecessor is taking much of the flak. Times, Sunday Times
Scottish merchants used their transatlantic connections to drive Franco-American competitors from the market, but for the retail end of their commerce they relied on the same voyageurs as had their predecessors.
The internal emergency was imposed and many oppositon leaders, especially of the erstwhile Jana sangh,. the predecessor to the present Bharatiya Janata party were held in Bangalore. the jail, like the jails of old, provided room for the leaders to introspect and devise ways to end the hegemony of the congress party. Uncertainty Ahead in Karnataka Elections
Another important distinction with his predecessor is about their attitudes towards welfare. David Cameron's ambivalent relationship with the lady in blue
In this context, such systems will inevitably replace their paper based predecessors.
For others, it represents more than they have earned in their life, or more than illustrious predecessors earned in a career. Times, Sunday Times
Wren, the daughter of a southern chieftain slain in battle by Alobar's predecessor, was even duskier. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
Moreover, although highly respected in his own field, Stewart's all-round experience can be viewed as narrower than that of his predecessor.
Now a retour is a writ returned from the Court of Attorney, testifying the service of every succeeding heir; and is therefore an unexceptionable evidence of paying his predecessor's debts, and of performing his obligations and deeds. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.
Strictly on the facts of the case, they are correct: The American archipelago is just a series of flyspecks compared to its Soviet predecessor.
Provenzano's predecessor at the head of the Cosa Nostra, Toto "The Beast" Riina, has been behind bars for 15 years, serving multiple life sentences.
Thatcher is unique among her predecessors in having given the English language a brand new ism, created from her own name.
The word complementarity was coined in 1998 when Sarkisian's predecessor, Robert Kocharian, was elected president to describe the country's policy of staying friends with its military ally, Russia, and the United States, which has a large Armenian diaspora as well as Europe and Iran. Institute for War & Peace Reporting:
And then the king, to give relation to him of his penance, enjoined by Leo his predecessor, to re-edify a monastery of the glorious apostle S. Peter, and sent Alfred, the archbishop of York, to The Golden Legend, vol. 6
Among Kant's predecessors who employed explicitly antinomic arguments and who may have specifically influenced him were Arthur Collier in his treatment of space (Clavis universalis, 1713), and Christian August Crusius in his treatment of causality and freedom (Entwurf der nothwendigen ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON
Three of the suspended schemes had received conditional approval from his predecessor. Times, Sunday Times
This gripping prequel to the 1982 sci-fi classic of the same name is just as exciting as its predecessor. The Sun
The ex-chief retained the loyalty of the rank-and-file, however, and the result was a successor who would find his own directives being countermanded by his predecessor.
The leaders find themselves in more trouble than their predecessors faced over much more blatant war lies.
The characters involved in this phase of railroading history get less outsized treatment than their predecessors. The Times Literary Supplement
As a scholar he is not in the same street with his predecessors.
However much he might mock the pedantic generic confusions of the ‘pastoral, tragical comical’ theatre of his predecessors, Shakespeare was their heir.
I recall his predecessor blew a Trillion on tax breaks for the top three percentiles while another few Trillion went on astrategic warfare and pointless Pentagon pork. Army Rumour Service
He said: ‘I am very conscious of the excellent leadership of the nation's hydrography by my predecessors.’
But today's Republicans are a nihilistic pack who would turn against everything their predecessors believed in, in the name of selfishness and greed. Richard (RJ) Eskow: The New GOP: Anti-Kids, Anti-Jobs, Anti-Business... And Anti-Republican
But the field of speculation into which one is led by the octonary scale has proved most attractive to some, and the conclusion has been soberly reached, that in the history of the Aryan race the octonary was to be regarded as the predecessor of the decimal scale. The Number Concept Its Origin and Development
Her predecessor had apparently turned her office into a cosy front room, complete with a fireplace.
Readers will recognize the Ktesibios floating valve as the predecessor to the floating ball in the upper chamber of the porcelain throne.
Under old monarchies it was the custom on the accession of a sovereign to call in the coins of his predecessor and remint them with the new king's effigy. Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking
Even Elizabeth's image was not so very different from that of her male predecessors and contemporary kings; like them she emphasised her regality, religion and role as carer of her people.
Clinton arrived, of course with a more mundane ambition than his grand Republican predecessor.
This occurred when a new building was built directly over the top of the remains of its predecessor.
Gui de Blois, to rehandle the book in the French interest; and once again in his old age his work was recast with a view to effacing the large debt which he owed to his predecessor, Jean le Bel. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
This iteration builds on what was achieved in its predecessor, without making wholesale changes that could alienate fans of the original.
On sale from next month, the new model arrives with an uprated specification list and a lead-in price of £18,513, a slight increase over its predecessors.
In 1985, while studying at the J.illiard School, Mr. Benjamin made his second life-changing discovery: Through a convoluted series of personal connections beginning with his ex-bandsman grandfather, he was directed to a derelict warehouse in Asbury Park, N.J. Inside was the vast music collection of Arthur Pryor (1870-1942), one of the star band conductors of the Victor Talking Machine Co. (predecessor of RCA-Victor and BMG). Benjamin's Ragtime Band
Bug-eyed, helium-voiced hambone Chris Tucker got paid $20 million to do this picture (compared to the $3 million he got for its predecessor).
That distinguishes him from his predecessor Alan Greenspan, who in 18 years turned his chairmanship into a czardom. The Money Man
Since the former earlier this week defended the FIA decision to restage the race, even – disastrously –releasing the naive-looking report on which that decision was based, Ecclestone changed his position, while Todt's predecessor Max Mosley said there was not the slightest chance that the race would be run. F1's Bahrain Grand Prix cancelled again as Ecclestone comes under fire
May's patience has snapped much earlier than that of her predecessors. Times, Sunday Times
Freud certainly had many original ideas; but even the most inventive minds are indebted to their predecessors.
My predecessor worked in this job for twelve years.
To make matters worse, he finds out that three of his predecessors died on the job in suspicious circumstances. Times, Sunday Times
It is clear that the present Governor loosened monetary policy earlier than his predecessor would have done.
Mr Babangida and his predecessors have tried to meet competing ethnic demands by spreading power around regional governments in a federal system.
One interesting revelation that Stone includes is that Morales 'blue-blooded predecessor barely spoke Spanish, which helps explain why Morales and politicians of his ilk have come to power. Dan Lybarger: DVD Review: South of the Border
For what is called a solecism is nothing else than the putting of words together according to a different rule from that which those of our predecessors who spoke with any authority followed. On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books
Very few composers in this period have wasted time in crowing over the internal contradictions of their predecessors.
The quartet showed greater musical range than their predecessors, with songs ranging from barbiturate-induced hallucinations to upbeat, jazzy grooves.
Musically and lyrically more direct than its predecessor, it reached deeper into the storytelling tradition.
McManus also raised eyebrows with a number of administrative shuffles that promoted some cops and transferred others who had been high up in his predecessor's administration.
By thoughtful ruminating on their flowers, committing them to memory, pupils assimilated the wisdom of their predecessors, transforming their forbears 'words into their own. 15 Conducting this wisdom through one's own life revealed the unique inner genius (ingenium) of one's character. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
This pessimistic extreme is as foolish as its optimistic predecessor.
His Iberian study also serves to exemplify advances in medieval research and historiography since the series' predecessor.
Obama is wildly popular in France, in contrast to his predecessor George W. Bush, but he appeared slightly at sea with the complicated customs regarding the "bise," the kiss on the cheeks often given as a greeting even between relative strangers. Sarkozy has his moments
Boucher's pictures are festooned with swags of cupidons instead of the fruit and flowers of his decorative predecessors such as Jan Brueghel.
Like her medieval predecessors, she received the stigmata, the mark of Christ's wounds.
His predecessors ruled Parsumash, a vassal state of the Median empire.
Unlike his predecessor, who was seen as ecumenical, Benedict is seen as a sectarian who will not reach out to other religions.
Like its predecessors it was in the vanguard of a revolution rather than the revolution itself. Times, Sunday Times
Like his predecessor, he maintains a pretence that the judiciary is independent of the Kremlin. Times, Sunday Times
It would be necessary to differentiate herself from her predecessor, Serena Burns, if she was going to infiltrate Cyberdyne. T2©: RISING STORM
Courcelles succeeded in robbing the prisoners who were in his charge in a more cautious manner than his predecessor; he, in short, contrived to subtract something for himself from any remittances which reached them, and paid them francs for livres. The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1
Although this would-be seventh province need not share all of Border with its predecessors, it would be sure to share a certain subregion of Border (a subregion that is itself a line-segment) with each of the others.
The Celts and their predecessors had put up edifices such as stone circles, calms and assorted burial constructions near sacred wells.
The new one, like its predecessors, is a bodacious, lightweight, low-slung, sleek, fun car, but with a roomier interior and pronounced fender arches evoking a more muscular look.
A new symphony, the Sinfonia semplice, followed within months and Nielsen conducted its first performance himself, as he had all its predecessors except the First.
Unlike its electrical predecessor, an optical switch does not convert the signal to an electrical impulse before directing it.
Percussion pistols came in all shapes and sizes and, like their firelock predecessors, included large and small caliber, smooth and rifled bore.
It even poaches the ending of its predecessor, when all the characters are killed off in the final episode.
Hence the virginal Elizabeth, who was chaste and civilised where her queenly predecessor was promiscuous and barbaric.
Her predecessor, Karl-Heinz Funke, was himself a farmer and an enthusiastic supporter of intensive agricultural methods.
First, he is probusiness, which some of his predecessors were not. The Sun
The latest Pirates installment, outsailed its predecessor. Faces Of The Week July 10-14, 2006Forbes Faces Of The Week July 10-14, 2006
Another theory is that the Tibetan Spaniel was bred with the Pekingese to create predecessors of the Shih Tzu.
His predecessor was accorded an equally tumultuous welcome.
He has also retained his predecessor's "excision" policy, under which asylum seekers on islands like this one are barred from the mainland's refugee review system. NYT > Global Home
Not quite as slammed together as it's predecessors, '92's El Mariachi and '95's Desperado, but still majorly fun.
My three predecessors and my three successors will all agree that I was the best.
His most recent films, execrable turkeys have achieved the seemingly impossible by being even crasser and less watchable than their dismal predecessors.
However, the new company will be a far smaller enterprise than its 60-year old predecessor.
Our predecessors, as journalists and readers, were far less squeamish.
Tthe latest Pirates installment, outsailed its predecessor. Depp's 'Pirates' Hauls In Record Bounty For Disney
An audit of the Virginia Department of Transportation shows more than $1 billion in unspent money, allowing the Republican governor to crow about government mismanagement and toss some dirt the way of his predecessor, Timothy Kaine, who happens to be head of the national Democratic Party on the eve of important midterm elections. McDonnell's VDOT pots of gold
It actually develops five times more downforce than its predecessor. Times, Sunday Times
The decision was made by my predecessor.
His predecessor in this career had "bettered" himself, or endeavoured to do so, by seeking the practice of some large town, and Lady Arabella, at a very critical time, was absolutely left with no other advice than that of Doctor Thorne
Villages built by aid money stand alongside the overgrown ruins of their predecessors. Times, Sunday Times
It is not so cheerful, perhaps, as its predecessor in the same key; the heavy basses twanging in tenths like a contrabasso are intentionally monotone in effect. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques
Unfortunately, I am not responsible for the failings of my predecessors, who set up the supply systems and who were as unrighteous as I am righteous.
During the reign of his predecessor, the Mercs and Jags in the training-ground car park were left in haphazard fashion.
The Prime Minister designate obviously viewed me with suspicion, as being closely associated with his predecessor.
Even its first, or general denomination, was the result of no common research or selection, although, according to the example of my predecessors, I had only to seize upon the most sounding and euphonic surname that English history or topography affords, and elect it at once as the title of my work and the name of my hero. Waverley
FRANKFURT—Economist Jens Weidmann officially began his term as the youngest-ever president of Germany's central bank, vowing to carry on the rigorous anti-inflation philosophy of his predecessor, Axel Weber . Germany's Bundesbank Gets a New Inflation-Fighter
Current board officials acknowledge that past actions may have been inadequate but said they have learned from their predecessors' mistakes.
In this venture, Clinton is following a course set by a number of his predecessors.
THE AUTHOR OF A LETTER TO MR CIBBER says, 'Pope was so good a versifier [once], that, his predecessor, Mr The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2
A distinguished predecessor was Claud Cockburn, who published the news-sheet The Week in the 1930s: which was considered by embassies and mandarins as the most accurate insight into the machinations of the British Empire, as it then was.
It is entertaining to read but seems rather trivial in comparison with its predecessor.
However, as with its famous predecessor Napster, downloading music from the site is illegal.
For every book that appears about him, a thousand pour forth about his evil predecessor.
Whenever Sri Krishna desires to manifest His incarnation on earth, first He creates the incarnations of His respectable predecessors.
This second album from the Hoosiers is being touted as a more low-key affair than its predecessor, which is a relief considering their 2007 debut was so daffily upbeat, you risked altitude sickness listening to it. The Hoosiers: The Illusion of Safety
Said predecessor was more or less centered in that ungrassed circle, the base of its trunk taking up approximately three-quarters of the area. Dustbury.com » Return of the Treelet Report
Kennedy's predecessor as president was the war hero Dwight Eisenhower.
The system was supposed to replace the box-ticking, legalistic approach that dogged predecessors with a more flexible approach based on high-level principles.
Kennedy's predecessor as president was the war hero Dwight Eisenhower.
Yes, the current York City chairman and his predecessor are very different men.
I'd been charged by one of his predecessors with making our plastic plants (we preferred “hyperefficient”) into household names. Reconstituted (novel excerpt)
Each currency was pegged to an artificial currency unit known as the ecu, the predecessor of the euro. CounterPunch
Ministers were as anxious as their predecessors to preserve Britain's privileged position in the Western alliance.
My present car is much better than its predecessor.
Disappointingly, even though you can at times detect a family likeness to its genius predecessors, The IT Crowd's opening gambit suggests it could be the runt of the litter.
Courage and Honour (A Ultramarines/Warhammer 40,000 novel) by Graham McNeill (Black Library Hardcover 06/01/2010) – McNeill is a superstar at Black Library and churns out novels in a number of the subseries of both WH Fantasy and WH 40K, this is the predecessor to the above hardcover volume: Books in the Mail (W/E 05/15/2010)
Like his film-star predecessor Ronald Reagan, he makes no great claims to artistry.
Rudolf, whose promise seemed initially to reside entirely in his handsome face and studly frame, turns out to be a suitable replacement for his predecessor in more ways than one.
We cannot go back to the bibulous naïveté of our predecessors.
But, like its predecessors, it has an ability to make itself heard above the din of the crowded media marketplace.
In the end, no more than his predecessors would Nixon escape Monnet's relentless logic.
Although her perception of her hero Ingres and his Renaissance predecessors was conditioned by her own bizarre personality, she aspired to paint in their naturalistic but imaginative manner.
The 1981 Perennial Dictionary of World Religions classifies the Unitarian Universalist Association as a development within Christianity, but observes that the new denomination, active in liberal causes, continues its predecessors the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of Americas commitment to live in the tension between humanistic liberalism and Christianity 776. Philocrites: Unitarian Universalism: In search of a definition
That said, modern boxing appears almost genteel alongside its prizefighting predecessor in which bareknuckled pugilists fought to exhaustion, with fights often lasting several hours.
Yes, he's doctrinally more fluid than his predecessors, but he's recognizably of the same type.
Mr. Orszag's 18 months on the job is typical for the head of the Office of Management and Budget, though few predecessors have had a gaudier tenure. Orszag Adieu
A 61-year-old former judge, Somchai Wongsawat, is known as a conciliator, in sharp contrast to his combative predecessor - and the protesters 'original target - Samak Sundaravej, whom a court forced from office last week for taking pay to host TV shows. New York Sun - All Articles
If we seek the real predecessor of the modern railroad track, we must go back three hundred years to the wooden rails on which were drawn the little cars used in English collieries to carry the coal from the mines to tidewater. The Railroad Builders; a chronicle of the welding of the states
But the Pakistani president is no more able than his predecessors to solve the country's underlying ethnic and communal tensions.
Oh, and his predecessor was probably murdered as part of some massive conspiracy.
We commend the current government and its predecessor for taking the bold and courageous step to seek to build a new national network. Times, Sunday Times
It is crowned with a stone shell keep of about 1300, which replaced a timber predecessor.
It requires them to appear before the commissioners at the Dolphin Inn, in Ely, on the 25th of the then instant January, to produce before the commissioners a true account "of the monies, fines, rents, and profits by you and every of you and your predecessors feoffees receaved out of the lands given by one Parsons for the benefitt of the inhabitants of Ely for 16 years past," &c. Notes and Queries, Number 29, May 18, 1850
Late Autumn might have with its predecessor, the similarities are more significant, particularly a quality that Michael Atkinson attributed to Ozu's Zen-infused sensibility translates on film to something like the art form's nascent formal beauty: patiently watching little happen, and the meditative moments around the nonhappening, until it becomes crashingly apparent that lives are at stake and the whole world is struggling to be born. ' GreenCine Daily
He was the successor to Eusebius as bishop of Caesarea and a proponent of his predecessor's subordinationist theology.
Some might say the big screen, as much as anything else, contributed to his predecessor's downfall.
And that is why I have a nagging suspicion the Italian will go the way of his predecessors. The Sun
The Prime Minister designate obviously viewed me with suspicion, as being closely associated with his predecessor.
Here are some of the princess's illustrious predecessors who have made a name for themselves. The Sun
Yet the rejection of his predecessor's religious conservative approach to the stem cell issue was total.
Francis Ingram, the present Abbot-General's predecessor, had come from a monied, aristocratic background. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
The Bohemian works were written for the keyed trumpet's predecessor, the valve trumpet.
The problem is to assess how much of his vision he owed to his elevation, to his position in history and to the work of his predecessors and contemporaries, and how much to the keenness of his own sight.
No less than Charles Darwin first suggested that the appendix was a vestigial organ from an ancestor that ate leaves, theorizing that it was the evolutionary remains of a larger structure, called a cecum, which once was used by now-extinct predecessors for digesting food. Lead Stories from AOL
To the Pima, the Hohokam were a people of myth and legend, boastful predecessors who had been slain by the Pima's great hero, Elder Brother. A Doomed People
Once prohibition took hold, many barmen lost their jobs, and the bartenders that worked in speakeasies in those days were not as skillful as their predecessors had been. Karl Kozel: Bartending Straight Up
The 120 square millimeter chip is twice as fast as its predecessor, the A4, which is also made by Samsung, according to reports from teardown firms that have taken Apple's devices apart. Reuters: Top News
As a scholar he is not in the same street with his predecessors.
Later in the day another droger hove in sight, rolling as badly as her predecessor. Sailing Alone Around the World
An unseen director appeared to be propelling her downstage left, towards her predecessor. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
Moreover, he says, it looks as if African nationalism is bent on the same self-destructive trajectory as its predecessor.
Each new leader would blame his predecessor for all the evils of the past.
Paranormal Activity 2" frightens the "Jackass 3-D" pranksters out of the top spot at the box office and outdoes its predecessor in terms of opening revenue. Weekend box office: 'Paranormal Activity 2' dominates with $41.5 million
He grabbed a copy of his predecessor's most recent report and in three hours had rewritten it. WALL GAMES
Will the new plan be any more acceptable than its predecessors?
But it lacks the meaty substance of its predecessors, and feels too fluffy, light, and simplistic to truly work.
The Bohemian works were written for the keyed trumpet's predecessor, the valve trumpet.
A phoenix is a bird that rises from the ashes of its deceased predecessor.
He believes, for a start, that it should be unafraid of adopting a risk culture, though so did his predecessor Robert Crawford.
Like its multi-platinum predecessor, it's full of yearning tunes and poignant, confessional lyrics that foster an intense and highly personal sense of identification between the band and its fans.
The Spaniard should feel more well disposed to his predecessor than the Scot. Times, Sunday Times
Each time has that name eclipsed its predecessor, while recalling it for a moment to fresher memory; John Brown revived the story of Nat. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
Since then, Prince has converted to Roman Catholicism - and may be a member or associate of Opus Dei, a very conservative cult now described as a prelature that is a strong ally of the current pope, Benedict XVI, who - when he was a Cardinal - paved the way for the beatification and canonization of the cult's founder, St. Josemaria Escriva by his predecessor, Pope John Paul II. GlobalResearch.ca
This increased exposure allows them to exploit their advantages over more ordinary mortals more easily than their predecessors could.
Book-fanciers now and then bid a few shillings, for a copy of the catalogue of his library; and some sly free-thinkers, of modern date, are not backward in shewing a sympathy in their predecessor's fame, by the readiness with which they bid a half-guinea, or more, for a _priced copy_ of it. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
Politician, historian and writer of many biographies, he was our immediate predecessor, yielding the Green Study to me.
Despite superficial resemblances to their medieval predecessors, these Lutheran altarpieces share a number of striking new features.

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