6 sentences with 'predecessors'
Example sentences and phrases with the word predecessors and other words derived from it.
• « The Neo-Assyrians were direct descendants of their Bronze Age predecessors, however, for the sake of simplicity this chapter will refer to both as the Assyrians. »
• « Darius I inherited the conquests of his predecessors and personally oversaw the conquest of the northern part of the Indus River valley in northwest India, marking the first time in world history that one state ruled over three of the major river systems of ancient history (i.e. the Nile, Mesopotamia and the Indus). »
• « In other words, although the monarchs of the 17th and 18th centuries certainly knew that they were doing something different from what their predecessors had done, they did not use the term "absolutism" per se. »
• « Yet each emperor ruled over an "empire" profoundly different from that of his predecessors, in which (even in Russia in 1905) at least some men voted for representatives with real political power. »
• « The V-22 "Osprey" aircraft, born to overcome the shortcomings of all its predecessors, achieved the synthesis of practicality, speed and safety surely dreamt of by the inventor of the helicopter, Paul Cornu, in 1907. »
• « Juan Manuel de Rosas was governor of Buenos Aires from 1829 to 1832. Like several predecessors in office, the Junta de Representantes granted him extraordinary powers, i.e. powers broader than those common in judicial matters. »