6 sentences with 'successor'
Example sentences and phrases with the word successor and other words derived from it.
• « Saul's successor was David, one of his former lieutenants, and David's successor was his son Solomon, famous for his wisdom. »
• « Each of the successor kingdoms was ruled by Greeks and Macedonians, but the bureaucracies were largely composed of 'natives' of the area. »
• « Trajan's successor, the emperor Hadrian, built a huge series of fortifications to consolidate power on the frontiers - these eventually became known (in the 3rd century AD) as the coves, permanent garrisons and fortresses that were to serve as barriers to prevent "barbarian" incursions. »
• « When Muhammad died, there was immediate trouble among Muslim Arabs. He did not name a successor, but he had been the definitive leader of the Islamic community during his lifetime; it seemed clear that the community was destined to have a leader. »
• « However, Charles' successor, Louis XI (r. 1431 - 1483), succeeded in making the new taxes permanent. »
• « Elizabeth I died without an heir (she had never married, rightly recognising that marriage would undermine her own authority), so her successor was from the Scottish royal house of the Stuarts, fellow royals related to the Tudors. »