6 sentences with 'predecessor'
Example sentences and phrases with the word predecessor and other words derived from it.
• « The English and French scientific societies were important parts of the development of a larger "Republic of Science", the predecessor of today's "academy". »
• « Bangemann, like his predecessor and two of his successors, was a member of the Free Democratic Party, whose chairman was Genscher. »
• « The initial letter "X" for the NASP experimental model is the acronym for all experimental air vehicles. The direct predecessor of the X-30 is the X-15, but there were many other experimental models before it in the history of aviation. »
• « While stressing that he is independent and uninfluenced by outsiders, Johan Major has continued the wide-ranging domestic and foreign policies of his predecessor Margaret Thatcher. »
• « Acting Governor Viamonte re-established the Junta de Representantes dissolved by his predecessor Lavalle. »
• « From her home in Braintree, Massachusetts, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, Whig leader John Adams, in 1776: "In the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to draw up, I wish you to remember the ladies and be more generous and favourable to them than your predecessor. Do not put such unlimited power in husbands. Remember that all men would be tyrants if they could". »