How To Use Successor In A Sentence

His successors built it up, and then a brilliant ruler name Hammurabi took power as the sixth king of Babylon from 1792 to 1750 B.C. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
An ancient city of Persia northeast of modern Shiraz in southwest Iran. It was the ceremonial capital of Darius I and his successors.
The case has offered an insight into travails he faced running the family business and securing a successor. Times, Sunday Times
Theodoric, and the professions of his successor, in Procopius, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Their latest disc is a worthy successor to their popular debut album.

Shiites of this branch believed that the Prophet Muhammad's successors or vicars were his cousin and son-in-law, Ali, and the eleven lineal descendants of Ali and the Prophet's daughter, Fatima.
By the late 1980s, she was grooming him as her successor.
In this light, even the discussion about successors to Heinlein nags at me, because I see it, perhaps unfairly, as another aspect of trying to come up with easy categorization in a field where such categorization is anything but easy and where labels create false expectation after false expectation. January « 2010 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
A list of the names of subscribers and family successors is on display on the church notice board.
Carson's hostility to increasing human control over nature is expressed in many different ways by her successors.
To their millionaire owners and portico-loving architects, they are temples of mock baroque and neo-Tudor excess that serve as worthy successors to the great country houses of the past.
Austrian voters went to the polls this weekend to elect a successor to the President.
The paper will also attend to some critical implications of the meter's movement, and will end by pointing to successors of Auden - poets like John Hollander and Marilyn Hacker - who followed his example and took up the alcaic meter in their own verses.
Lieberman says he has his own reasons for refusing to give up the Senate bid: if he quit now, his successor would be picked by the state's Democratic committee, rather than by the voters, thereby subverting the democratic process. Missouri Grieves For A Friend
Former prime minister Ivan Kostov has stirred up further controversy on the Brady bond swop with a letter urging his successor Simeon Saxe-Coburg to call off the deal.
The term lame duck refers to an elected official who has lost an election, or soon will be leaving office, during the period between the election and the date a successor will take over.
Xi, who is from Shaanxi province and has held top party jobs in Fujian province and briefly in Shanghai, was long assumed to be the successor to President Hu Jintao. China's vice president on track to become next leader
The Englehart incarnation of bats is one that is plausible to have a successor for. Review: Captain America - Reborn #4 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
Washington's successor John Adams was a staunch Federalist from Massachusetts.
Burt also confirmed he would step down from his role as governor of the Bank of Scotland, a titular post formerly held by Sir Jack Shaw, but that a successor will not be announced until early January.
he was President Lincoln's successor
In sum, the histories and the prophecies of the Old Testament and the gospels and epistles of the New Testament have had one and the same scope, to convert men to the obedience of God: 1. in Moses and the priests; 2. in the man Christ; and 3. in the Apostles and the successors to apostolical power. Leviathan
In its place, NASA is considering a plan to design and launch an occulter and connect it with the James Webb Space Telescope, the highly sophisticated and very expensive successor to the Hubble Space Telescope and scheduled to launch in 2014. First Contact
Traditionally, the president designates his or her successor.
Forty years on, our successors have no doubt that they are on history's winning side.
The Republican House members defenestrated the outspoken proponent of "moral values" then serving as speaker, and his would-be successor, too.
Conversely, a kappa recorded by Lanckoronski after the name "Aurelius" on one of the other architraves after the name Aurelius seems to identify the emperor as Marcus Aurelius 'son and successor, Commodus (A.D. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Macellum Report 3
Whether they had much bearing on the ambition of Otto and his successors to be emperors may be doubted.
His successor is thus in an almost impossible position. Times, Sunday Times
Why should a chief executive with just three to four years to run in the job - and many of them have no more than that - fatten up the corporation for the benefit of his successor?
Our existing President, Simon Hughes, will end his term of office on December 31st - the election of his successor is a chance for you to decide who will be, in the words of the Constitution, "the principal public representative of the Party and Chair of the Federal Executive". Archive 2008-09-01
The Jongleurs must have continued long after their masters were stamped out, for their direct successors are with us to-day, and our hand-organ is the descendant of their fearful and wonderful organistrum. Woman's Work in Music
The Vatican said at the weekend that a decision in favour of the pope's eventual fast-track beatification would be the ‘exclusive competence’ of his successor.
Her son and successor, Paul I, was a nasty autocrat who ruled only five years before he was murdered in his bedroom by a group of nobles. StarTribune.com rss feed
Computer hackers, electronic bugs and supersensitive microphones threaten to pierce the Vatican's thick walls next week when cardinals gather in the Sistine Chapel to name a papal successor.
In 2000, he defected from the Russian SVR, successor to the soviet KGB, and moved to America where he consulted for the CIA and FBI. Friday Daily Goodbye
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.
Jong-un, the youngest son and successor to the ruling dynasty started by his grandfather, was described as the "eternally immovable mental mainstay of the Korean people" by KCNA. Reuters: Top News
Nay, he goes even so far as to say that the passage-work is of the usual kind met with in the compositions of Hummel and his successors, and that the cantilena in the larghetto is in the jejune style of Hummel; the last movement also receives but scanty and qualified praise. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
That I will be both swave and deboner when I obey all orders given to me by her Magesty the Queen, Queen Elizabeth the II her heirs, successors and the officers and Generals set over me Army Rumour Service
The egregious BBC hackette Martha Kearney – slated as successor to Andrew Marr – was interviewed last night by the increasingly mad Paxo on Newsnight. Pig ignorance
The CCF is the successor of the Officers Training Corps, in which the young Terence Troy served as a schoolboy in the late 1930s, before escaping from Jersey in 1940, just before the Occupation, to enlist in the British Army. Archive 2008-09-01
The announcement ends a long wait for a permanent successor to Dean Robinson, who left the club in March.
A frail Pope John Paul II yesterday added 30 names to the list of his possible successors, installing a diverse collection of cardinals in a consistory some say may be his last.
Our defeat may be the preface to our successor's victory.
Napoleon was as essentially, and irreclaimably, a despot, as a warrior; but his successor, whether a Bourbon or a Buonaparte, was likely to be a constitutional sovereign. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte
It is held in trust by her as sovereign for her successors and the nation and, indeed, she rarely refuses a request to lend items.
Despite his illegitimacy, he declared William his successor.
Many of his successors find a place in Irish martyrologies, including St. Mochua, St. Moling and St. Cillene. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
It doesn't matter that their past failings arguably make them more culpable than successors who were holding the wheel when the iceberg was actually hit. Times, Sunday Times
She was a devotee in Swifty's, the successor to her beloved Mortimer's, and she lunched and dined there often.
Maud the empresse at the same time was deliuered of hir second sonne named Geffrey, so that he saw himselfe prouided of an assured successor. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.
This increasing conservatism under Stalin and his successors strengthened and reinforced the nonaggressive, "peaceful coexistence" policy. EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 14, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
In Catholicism, when the Bishop of Rome invokes his authority as Successor of Peter and Vicar of Christ, and speaks from the Chair of Peter, his pronouncement is binding on all Catholics throughout the world. Snow Angels
Will upending the old way of searching for the Dalai Lama's incarnation, in which priests search for omens, portents and meteorological signs, undermine the legitimacy of his successor?
The task for his successor is to make the engine smaller but make it work better. Times, Sunday Times
_Fidei Defensor_, or Defender of the Faith, a title which he jealously bore until his death, and which his successors, the sovereigns of Great Britain, with like humor have continued to bear ever since. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
What does he think about the young women being touted as his successors? Times, Sunday Times
A series of agreements signed during President Boris Yeltsin's second term culminated in the December 8, 1999 treaty to create the Union State, but Yeltsin's successor Vladimir Putin showed little enthusiasm for the project's grander goals. RIA Novosti
The outgoing chairman will caretake until a successor is found.
our successors...may be graver, more inured and equable men
His successor is a breath of fresh air. The Sun
Between 1988 and 1994, China normalized or established diplomatic relations with 18 countries, as well as with the Soviet successor states.
When one day, a Persian conqueror -- Cyrus -- entered the precincts of E-Sagila, his first step was to acknowledge Marduk and Nabu as the supreme powers in the world; and the successors of Alexander continue to glory in the title 'adorner of The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
There are a number of potential successors on the board. Times, Sunday Times
Their successors, conversely, must begin where they left off - at the top.
These can be of equal or unequal cost and are identified as the best loop-free paths to a given destination. A copy of the successor routes is also placed in the topology table.
Carter had advocated deregulation, but he approached reform via legislation whereas his successor sought the same end primarily through administrative action.
Although the twin-engine J-20 is at least eight or nine years from entering air force inventory, it could become a rival to America's top-of-the-line F-22 Raptor, the successor to the Nighthawk and the only stealth fighter currently in service. China's Stealth Fighter May Use Technology From Downed U.S. Plane
Russia, Georgia and Ukraine are three of the successor states to the Soviet Union.
Old trees may survive for decades but where will their successors come from? Times, Sunday Times
Allies had suggested the former party leader could land a plum role in his successor's shadow cabinet. The Sun
She is widely regarded as the current leader's natural successor.
As a hardline right-winger in the early 1990s I was personally anointed by Margaret Thatcher as her chosen successor.
It is to be hoped his successor feels similarly. Times, Sunday Times
Alfred and his successors had dealt with the problem by instituting the fyrd and military obligation was measured in hides.
Raja Mansingh's successor raja Vikramaditya, who was a feudatory of Lodis since 1519, was also in Agra.
Two weeks after the death of Pope John Paul, the cardinals met to elect his successor.
It is an irony of history that it is for their unlawful acts that their successors will also be remembered. The Times Literary Supplement
The Royal Collection is held in trust by the Queen for her successors and the nation and is not owned by her as a private individual.
But over the past couple of years, he's fired coach Lane Kiffin after barely more than a season, then feuded with Kiffin's successor, Tom Cable, who Davis also just fired even after he led the team to an improved 8-8 record this past season. The Most Disliked People In Sports
The club has compiled a shortlist of possible successors and some have been contacted to gauge their interest. The Sun
In a statement outside Conservative central office, the outgoing Tory leader said that the name of his successor would be announced in a simple statement tomorrow afternoon.
Agence France-Presse/Getty Images In this photograph taken on January 28, 2010, an Indian Army Chetak helicopter, a licence-built version of the French Alouette III and successor of the smaller Cheetah utility helicopter, makes a fly-past during a National Cadet Corps parade in New Delhi. Pakistan Releases Indian Air Crew
The rocket launch is NASA?s first suborbital test of the new Ares I booster to launch astronauts to space aboard its shuttle successor, the Orion craft.
Taylor was to address a joint session of Congress yesterday to officially declare his intention to resign and announce a successor.
March 3, 2009 at 6:53 pm muhammed: Well there were the Indo-Greek successor states for some 200 years after Sikander. The Schadenfreude Of The Left On Afghanistan « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
Their successors began moving their economies away from complete dependence on oil.
If you kill an opposition candidate, you create a martyr, with a groundswell of indignation on which his successor can ride into office.
My three predecessors and my three successors will all agree that I was the best.
Assisted by three assistants chosen by lot from the college of Cardinals, he directs the election of the pontiff's successor.
She is the anointed successor to a superstar. Times, Sunday Times
ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet and his successor, Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi, sent a letter late last week to the Italian government callingfor faster spending cuts, an overhaulof Italy'slabor rulesand measures to liberalize cosseted business sectors, a person familiar with the matter said Monday. ECB Puts Pressure on Italy
Just a day after the enclave gathered to choose the successor to John Paul II, white smoke plumed from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel and the bells pealed across Rome.
But, with the second successor of Aristotle, Strato of Lampsacus, another kind of hylozoism, clearly materialistic, came into existence. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
Stuyvesant allowed the burgomasters and schepens to nominate their successors, but the city did not have a schout of its own until 1660. The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country
Of the immediate successors of Tiglath-pileser I. we know little, and it is with Assur-nazir-pal III. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
He was a successor, it has been conceived, of the Counts of Paris, by whom the city was valiantly defended against the Normans, and an ancestor of Hugh Capet. Count Robert of Paris
Sandy Stewart "napped" stones on the road in his shirt sleeves, wet or fair, summer and winter, till he was persuaded to retire from active duty at eighty-five, and he spent ten years more in regretting his hastiness and criticising his successor. A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 1
Epistles to Timothy and Titus, which is assisted by a supposed analogy between the position of the Apostles and of their successors; although the term bishop is clearly used in the passages referred to as well as in other parts of the New Testament indistinguishably from Presbyter, and the magisterial authority of bishops in after ages is unlike rather than like the personal authority of the Apostles in the beginning of the Gospel. Scripture and Truth: Dissertations by the Late Benjamin Jowett with Introduction by Lewis Campbell.
The outstanding personal quality of his chosen successor was his cringing deference to the leader who elevated him to one of the top jobs in government.
A lamp is a successor, for, when a lamp is almost out, another may be lighted by it; it is a succession, for by this means David shall not want a man to stand before God. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
The chief executive will set in train the process of finding a successor.
Kim Jong-un, his youngest son and anointed successor, was described as the "eternally immovable mental mainstay of the Korean people" by North Korean state news agency KCNA. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
The fire-damaged industrial rolls of paper are the obvious successors to his lightning-blasted trees. More Beauty in Oxford
Secondly the sultans put into place a system of administration - revenue collection, taxes and minting - that would serve as the base for their successors the Mughals.
He was prime minister from 1995 to 1997 during Chirac's first term as president, and is widely tipped as his most likely successor.
These princes of Transylvania, as well as their successors in the following century, were all eager to prepare the liberation of Hungary from both Germans and Turks.
Directors continue to hold office until the shareholders elect their successors and the latter take office.
The Orthodox believe that all bishops confess the true faith and are the successors of Peter and the other apostles.
Asked if he was worried that his employers would one day be meeting his successor behind his back, he appeared unfazed. Times, Sunday Times
The successors to the first apostles were just beginning to organize their ministries and develop the church's worship, creeds, and teachings.
Though he damned the prime minister for the war he did not demand his resignation or rule out future cooperation with him or his successor.
And he could be no less firm about aspects of liturgy of which he disapproved: his theology was never angular or sectarian (remember his generous support of the liturgical experiments of his successor as Dean of Clare, John Robinson), but there was a clear, eirenic but firm foundation in Protestant principle that made him very uneasy with what he regarded as the drip-feed of some sorts of Catholicising devotion into Anglican practice. Sermon for the Life and Work of the Revd Prof CFD Moule
The eventual retreat from Iraq by the British, therefore, will also mark a retreat from the US-led coalition and a move more fully into the "intergovernmental" structure of the European Union, where Blair's (or his successor's) foreign and defence policy will be increasingly defined by his colleagues in the European Council "cabinet". Democracy or stability?
My test for a potential successor to the book is whether you can read it in the bath. Times, Sunday Times
A widely respected and effective successor must be found quickly. Times, Sunday Times
Tachos (360-359), his successor, attempted to invade the Syrian territory, but, as a result of rivalries and dissensions between himself and his namesake Tachos, whom he had appointed as regent, he was supplanted by Nectanebo II (358-342), a cousin of Tachos the regent, and took refuge with Artaxerxes II, at whose court he died. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
He has been widely tipped as the President's successor/to succeed the President.
And the plans to reduce the hours for the job by 25% will make it more difficult for her successor to conduct proper inquiries into allegations of sleaze.
Its successor makes its world debut at Motorfair.
Carter had advocated deregulation, but he approached reform via legislation whereas his successor sought the same end primarily through administrative action.
His successors on Chicago's south side have a chance to atone for those sins this week.
He chose as his successor a relative newcomer to the organization.
Far more likely is that he will select a successor beyond criticism who will restore the position to uncontroversial neutrality.
We must first deal with his successor, the owlish Ayman al-Zawahiri and perhaps the Taliban's Mullah Omar. Richard Klass: Death of a Salesman
A gift or inheritance taken by a donee or successor who is a spouse of the disponer is exempt from capital acquisitions tax.
Other likely candidates are Simon of Brion, the papal legate, and Ranulph of Houblonnire, Tempier's future successor as bishop of Paris.
Traditionally, the president designates his or her successor.
Whether she finally acknowledged James VI of Scotland as her rightful successor will never be known for certain.
The ancient privilege of coining money at Canterbury was restored to him and his successors by Richard I, and he was a great benefactor to his cathedral. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
Antigonus had been the only general able to consistently defeat the other Successors; without him, the last bonds the Empire had had began to dissolve.
After the long, corrupt reign of an old debauched Prince, whose vices were degrading to himself and to a nation groaning under the lash of prostitution and caprice, the most cheering changes were expected from the known exemplariness of his successor and the amiableness of his consort. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
Harun's successor Al-Ma'mun is linked with the founding of the House of Wisdom, a library, academy and translation factory that may have become at the time the largest repository of books in the world. Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim al-Khalili – review
His successor is thus in an almost impossible position. Times, Sunday Times
It is astonishing that these superstitions, in the partial guise of sophistical successor versions, retain any credibility.
Edwin van der Sar is expected to sign a new one-year contact withManchester United next week, worth around £5million, that will delay byat least 12 months any need for the club to find a successor. Football.co.uk news feed
Masarat Alam, the hardliner portrayed as his successor, is vice-chairman of the Muslim League, "a constituent of our forum".
Gillebride had then succeeded to both the reduced Scottish earldom of Caithness and the whole of the Orkney jarldom as successor in the Angus line of Magnus II; and Gillebride had died in 1256 leaving a son Magnus III. Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns
A sharecropper is a tenant farmer who is-the system is this: Sharecropper is the -- is the successor system to slavery in the South, basically. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How it Changed America
He was the successor to Eusebius as bishop of Caesarea and a proponent of his predecessor's subordinationist theology.
The contemplation of a world of fragments becomes boring and Eliots successors are more interested in tidying it up. Inside the Whale
If the landscaping of the country house was at the cutting edge of garden design in the eighteenth century, the urban park was its successor.
At the coronation of his successor, Richard I, the same year, Chief Justiciar Glanville was present, and when that prince took the cross, Glanville joined him, contributing a large sum towards the crusade. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Office of the City of Montreal, of the said notice of such election or amotion, shall be final and conclusive, unless the same by any order or orders to be by Us, Our Heirs or Successors made in Our or Their Privy McGill and its Story, 1821-1921
His successor was his younger brother's younger son, Albert I, a man who, though lacking, of course, his uncle's greater experience, seemed to have inherited some of his intellectual qualities. The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers
When the king died and his successor was not on the spot to assume the reins of government, the archimagus was regent during the interregnum, as, for instance, between the death of Nabopolassar and the accession of Nebuchadnezzar. [ A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1
Yet one of his subordinates and eventual successor, had experienced similar admonitions from a judge in 1994.
In fact, he was renowned for spending more times in the air than being at home sorting domestic problems, which he unchivalrously has now handed over to his successor.
One tendency, led by Clitomachus, Carneades 'student and eventual successor as scholarch, favored what we may call a radical skeptical position embracing both doctrines. Antiochus of Ascalon
And as a backbencher you will need to allow your successors to get on with that task without undue interference.
In the inheritance of legacy shares, it mainly explored "Legitimate successor" as well as the legatee of the scope of the disposal options.
Vatican I: For the Holy Spirit was not promised to the successors of Peter, that by His revelation, they might make known new doctrine, but that by His assistance they might inviolably keep and faithfully expound the revelation or deposit of faith delivered through the Apostles. TEXAS FAITH: Why should science talk to religion? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
Before his successor will be American Orr State Insurance company, chief executive officer Edward? Leidy.
The tendency to ethnic absolutism and the one-party residue have reinforced one another in the Yugoslav successor states.
His successor was his younger brother's younger son, Albert I, a man who, though lacking, of course, his uncle's greater experience, seemed to have inherited some of his intellectual qualities. The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers
Bell caddied some for Woods during his early days but will step aside when a successor for Williams is announced. Big Names Tee Up for Thailand
This means he could map out a successor in little over a year, after one more key autumn and winter seasons of shows. Times, Sunday Times
This excess in value above the half of the just price, the said emperor and king of Castilla relinquishes for himself and his successors, and disunites the same from the royal crown of his kingdoms forever, and delivers it entire to the said King of Portugal, to him and to his successors and crown of his kingdoms, really and effectually, in the aforesaid manner, and during the time of this contract. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
King of Portugal, to be the first bishop of Saint Thomas of Mylapur, and granted Philip and his heirs and successors in perpetuity the right of patronage and presentation to the see, and the benefices that might be created therein, by the mere facts of their creation and dotation. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
The choice of successor will be important as the charity copes with a declining membership and dwindling financial reserves. Times, Sunday Times
Our defeat may be the preface to our successor's victory.
Article 21 Where there are obligations attached to testamentary succession or legacy, the successor or legatee shall perform them.
North Korean Leader Chooses Successor Amid Signs of More Brinkmanship.
Since then its successor has been recycled into the City Art Gallery, and the library now operates from a striking building, enhanced by metal nikau palms, designed by well-known Wellington architect Ian Athfield. Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand
However, if he becomes immobile, a successor likely will have to be chosen quickly.
Tullibardine, the son and successor of Sir David, enlarged the College of Tullibardine, and built that part where his arms and his lady's are impaled -- the three stars within the tressure for Murray, and a cross ingrailed for Colquhoun, finely cut in stone on the outside of the wall. Chronicles of Strathearn
It added that the proposal would not require the board to disclose the identities of potential successors. Times, Sunday Times
I believe that when his successors were actively engaged in that process, they often made devastating mistakes.
His advocacy for the Iraq war was only the latest of Hitchens's positions that many on the left found uncomfortable, and led to a chill in his relations with Gore Vidal, who had once nominated him a "successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delphino". Christopher Hitchens dies aged 62
But Manchester's own Olympic sprint gold medallist today launched a campaign to discover a potential successor to his crown as Britain's top sprinter.
The rights and obligations of the Company hereunder shall accrue to its successor and assigns.
” There might also be a certain froideur in the air when Mr Baker next bumps into Chris Huhne, his successor as the Liberal Democrat environment spokesman.” said Nigel Morris “Mr Huhne spent £3,284 on car mileage - but only £176 on train tickets, even though his Hampshire constituency is easily reached by rail.” Norman Baker Cheats On Campaign Funding
The top of a more resistant flow might make an extensive plain, and then its successor would comprise the next flat area, perhaps half as wide. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
The No. 1 driver for team Cagliari -- he had the word Cagliari emblazoned across the chest of his overalls -- his consistent brilliance on the Grand Prix tracks had made him the acknowledged crown prince of racing and Harlow's eventual and inevitable successor. The Way to Dusty Death
In future consistories, Pope Benedict and his successors are likely to come under more pressure to ignore the rules as the demographics of the church continue to shift. Cardinals
Her down-to-earth successor is 58, shortish, very proper and handsome in that don't care-a-fig British way.
She was slated to be his successor
The coin depicted to the left of the font represented Edward's divine ability to cure scrofula since he possessed what Plot termed ‘the gift of Sanation,’ which he bequeathed to his successors.
The infantry of our own army -- the successors of those noble fellows that walked across Spain -- have no better covering for their backs than the scanty and useless coatee; in this they parade, and in this they are supposed to fight. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
After lunch she was gone and Simon was in the throes of recruiting her successor. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
Nor is there much controversy about its successor. Times, Sunday Times
There is no structure in place for a handover and no anointed successor. Times, Sunday Times
Nor would the Virgin Queen oblige by naming a successor, but left her ministers to do it in defiance of English laws and at some risk to themselves.
Like its cultivated successors, the wild vine is a climbing plant which needs to grow up some support.
Sebituane's successor in the chiefdom was his daughter, Ma-mochisane. The Personal Life Of David Livingstone
It seems impertinent to talk of successors while such a great cricketer is still in harness. Times, Sunday Times
But having effectively anointed him his successor, he could do little but play for time. Times, Sunday Times
Andre is a fighter I've chosen as Wadie successor. Carlos And Zuckerberg: The Men, Myths, Movies
But having effectively anointed him his successor, he could do little but play for time. Times, Sunday Times
Given all this, however, the successors of Ecgfrith preserved and maintained a secure realm within what were still wide-ranging frontiers.
Like modern archeology, anthropology also depends upon the historical perspective which Hecataeus and his successors first opened.
It will not single out anyone as a successor to a bishop or archbishop except in rare cases when the incumbent is obviously old or very ill. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
She is also unswerving in her belief that she did no wrong as Minister for Public Enterprise and that her successor can do no right.
He doesn't have an obvious successor as party leader.
The election of Dmitry Medvedev as Vladimir Putin's handpicked successor to be president of Russia provides an opportune moment to initiate a long-overdue review of America's strategy toward Russia.
Each time you are ready to make a flip, you note the number that appears in the upper righthand corner, and calculate the successor of that number modulo 4.
What democracy shall mean to our sons and daughters and to their successors will be determined first in the great battle now raging, in which Prussian autocracy is to be defeated and finally driven from power, and second in the success or failure of a federation of the democracies of the world following that battle. Woodrow Wilson and the Doctrine of Sovereignty
The real-estate investment trust said the search for a successor is already underway, and will include both internal and external candidates. Segro CEO to Step Down
The guid folk of Airdrie should embrace and celebrate Ms Mitchell's talent and begin immediately the quest for a worthy successor to this largely unsung heroine.

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