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    successor


    1. of the Fire Mage, and his successor


    2. 20“His successor will send out a tax collector to maintain the royal


    3. That he should go so far, though he went no further, gave some satisfaction to the patrons of the reformation, who, having got possession of the government in the reign of his son and successor completed, without any difficulty, the work which Henry VIII


    4. " His successor, Vladimir Lenin, agreed


    5. If my successor offered to keep you on as a singer, you would forget me in an instant


    6. He knew in the inevitable sequence of chronology, that a successor would be none other than the bully whom he'd hated with even greater conviction than Akaman, though this one had been expected to make an appearance from the start


    7. If Prempeh had acted up to his acknowledged principles he should have committed suicide rather than be removed; but he was too great a coward to do that, simply to bestow his evanescent power on his successor


    8. The Custodians have no right of objection, it's up to me who my successor will be


    9. His successor John Tyler not only expanded slavery, he committed treason


    10. His successor Millard Fillmore, though not a slave owner, strongly supported and enforced the Fugitive Slave Act, requiring all Americans to return runaway slaves to their owners

    11. His successor, Teddy Roosevelt, reversed course in several ways


    12. While most today argue it is a failed war, many Democrats and even some progressives believe it to have at one point been a necessary war, including Bush's successor, Obama


    13. Frankly, he couldn’t think of a better successor


    14. Grant is again the most likely successor


    15. Possibly Cheney may choose as his vice presidential successor the Speaker of the House, Tom Delay


    16. The crisis affected how Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson, fought the US-Vietnam War


    17. Bush's successor Obama is Black, as is one of Obama's advisers, Susan Rice


    18. It has nurtured the city-state of Ur, in the south-central part, “the land between the rivers” and many of the successor civilizations including Babylon and Assyrian Nineveh, which arose at the base of the northern plateau and in the uppermost portion of this long plain


    19. What choices did she have? None! If he was told, they were Ainatssithan? If he was told, she was Calras’ daughter and that she sought for Elior who was the successor to the throne of Ivetarlis, then what?


    20. Instead of, in all honest humility, following the titular leader, the bishop of Rome, religious heir of the Apostle Peter, already chosen, according to the Bible, by their crucified leader as head of his church, and by extension any other bishop chosen as his successor; the Eastern leadership, following Constantine’s move of his capitol eastward sought to contest that authority, trying instead to negotiate a kind of co-ruler-ship, similar to that which had brought Constantine to the fore of the pagan, Roman Empire

    21. “Those who later became known as Shi’ites (partisans of Ali) maintained from the beginning that such an important office could not be left to the whims and fancies of the people, and that God had designated through Mohammed a successor (caliph) who was none other than Ali, husband of his only daughter, Fatima


    22. Earlier Followers: “On the higher level, the first to believe in him were his wife Khadija [and] Ali, his cousin…and his future successor, abu-Bakr


    23. The first caliph (successor) was named abu Bakr (Bekr?) (AD 632–634, early follower of Mohammed)


    24. By the time that Moses was ready to hand his spiritual mantle to his successor, it must be presumed, as implied in the text, that Joshua was at the head of a well-seasoned defense force


    25. David was loyal to his God-chosen king, and even though he was anointed as the successor, he was loath to do anything that would hasten his own elevation


    26. It may have been the Apostle Peter or an early successor within a “Counsel of Many” who banned these intrusions, charging those teachers of that Gnostic brand of Christianity with heresy, and the battle of the ages was joined


    27. Yes, He was a kind of successor to the Hebrew God also, but the difference is that “He was a triune god, the Great Three in One


    28. His successor, Throckmorten, wasn’t about to sack a good thing


    29. If she ever wanted to retire she knew that she had a capable successor in Megan and


    30. Whoever we chose would then have to make sure that his arban elected his successor

    31. “Whatever happened to the original plan, that the people would choose the successor to the Khan?”


    32. You remember, of course, that a kuriltai is the Mongol word for the assemblage that met to choose the successor to the Khan in the old land


    33. “Among some of the tribes in the north, he would be the Khakhan’s successor, rather than Juchi


    34. He was the divinely appointed as Moses’ successor


    35. 1 Jesus the son a Nave was valiant in the wars, and was the successor of Moses in prophecies, who according to his name was made


    36. So too, it was there that the Lord caused him to chose his successor, Elisha


    37. Also, as I had expected, one of the minghan commanders, Na Tok’, died suddenly along the march and Cimnashote led his minghan for a few days until we could stop long enough to pick a successor from among his jagun commanders


    38. As to Kubilai, he seems to think you are his successor


    39. “I already explained to Colon that the Khakhan is not the successor of Kubilai, and he has no interest in any religion


    40. His uncle Fadrique, the prince of Altamura, an illegitimate son of Ferrante’s grandfather, was named successor by the papa

    41. Seeing that I was bewildered by that remark, he explained that even though the papa was the “vicar of Christ” and the successor of the “apostles,” he did not lead a very moral life, and was wont to flaunt his excesses at this banquets


    42. my father, at what time he lped an army into the high countries, appointed a successor, 24 To the end that, if anything fell out


    43. They may have returned to the invasion had not the successor Khan, Kaidu, died after a short reign


    44. that he had ordained Judas, a traitor to his realm, to be the king's successor


    45. Jack called order with a stern shout, “Gentleman! For the sake of a smooth transition and to allay any fears of an investor backlash, I propose we all vote for Harry’s successor


    46. The Cardinal focused the issues significance --- [issues within an ‘all out culture war’ within the United States] --- talking to the intrusion of the government and what it means for church and state relations: “I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square


    47. grade and title were conferred upon his white successor


    48. Among other bits of new knowledge I acquired were that Denny leased 540 miles of railroad track across southern Montana from the Burlington Northern Santa Fe and that in so doing, he became the legal successor in interest to it for Super Fund site cleanup purposes, especially the former engine switching depot in Livingston


    49. gained some legitimacy as a would-be successor to Hyrcanus II


    50. especially when contrasted to that of the successor states of the Roman Empire













































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    Synonyms for "successor"

    successor heir replacement beneficiary scion

    "successor" definitions

    a person who follows next in order


    a thing or person that immediately replaces something or someone


    a person who inherits some title or office