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  • Seiler chose a successor, and within two weeks the state of Georgia sent him a new license plate for his red station wagon: UGA V. Blanche Williams, who had been the soul of stoicism throughout her son's ordeal, wore an evening gown and a pink corsage.†   (source)
  • We are Young Pioneers, successors to Communism.†   (source)
  • They'd have no apprentices, they'd have no successors.†   (source)
  • Mr. Brown's successor was the Reverend James Smith, and he was a different kind of man.†   (source)
  • Not the least of which is that since I have no heirs of Heart descent, nor do I want any, I will choose my successor from one of the ranking families.†   (source)
  • He tells her that two years earlier he'd married Cady's successor, but that his wife took her life in a fit of depression.†   (source)
  • I recall Boggs's response when I admitted I hadn't put much thought into Snow's successor.†   (source)
  • What do you think of Vanilor or his successor, Eridor?†   (source)
  • Or rather, since Delvin had moved on, to Delvin's successor.†   (source)
  • Indeed, for the next several decades alienists and their successors would find themselves hard-pressed to describe with any precision what it was about men like Holmes that could cause them to seem warm and ingratiating but also telegraph the vague sense that some important element of humanness was missing.†   (source)
  • Like his famous predecessor, Hally must grow up and become Master Harold, worthy successor to his father in the family business.†   (source)
  • His successor, Sennacherib, did.†   (source)
  • Through federal programs such as the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit and its successor, the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, the chains have for years claimed tax credits of up to $2,400 for each new low-income worker they hired.†   (source)
  • The other had been finding, despite all the obstacles that destiny had interposed, a successor worthy of the company.†   (source)
  • The Emperor wishes me to report on whether you've chosen a worthy successor.†   (source)
  • Well, I suppose you're the natural successor."†   (source)
  • We went on like this for some time as I tried to reconcile the image of our lug-head chewer of ironing boards with the image of a proud successor to Rin Tin Tin leaping across the silver screen, pulling helpless children from burning buildings.†   (source)
  • He was the first of the great philosophers to be born in Athens, and both he and his two successors lived and worked there.†   (source)
  • Their eyes, language and customs belied the white skin and proved to their dark successors that since they didn't have to be feared, neither did they have to be considered.†   (source)
  • There were two problems: Bjurman's death would not of itself give her back control of her own life, and there was no guarantee that Bjurman's successor would be an improvement.†   (source)
  • It was explained to me that Mohammed himself had appointed Imam Ali to be his successor, but that after the prophet's death the Suni sect had muscled its way into power, gaining control of most of the Islamic world.†   (source)
  • Cyril, whom I met only upon my release from prison, was a worthy successor to a long line of notable ANC leaders.†   (source)
  • Randolph saw Emma as his successor, the next great historian-archaeologist of the family.†   (source)
  • Joe McCormick was the successor to Karl Johnson—he had been appointed to the job when Johnson retired.†   (source)
  • She and her successor, David Remnick, graciously allowed me to spend many months away from the magazine to work on this book.†   (source)
  • And my successors will not be giving speeches about the wonderful opportunities of the global economy; they'll be trying to keep body and soul together for people on the streets of these cities."†   (source)
  • The fact that Pea had only spoken to Mary Cole five or six times in his life, most of them times when she was still married to Joe Cole, didn't mean a thing to a bystander like Gus, or even a bystander like Deets; both of them seemed to take it for granted that Mary regarded him as a fit successor to Joe.†   (source)
  • Muhammad himself was progressive on gender issues, but some early successors, such as the Caliph Omar, were unmitigated chauvinists.†   (source)
  • We will also wish his successor, our second most important leader, our Vice Chairman Lin Biao, good health, forever good health.†   (source)
  • None of them was written by Peregrin, but he and his successors collected many manuscripts written by scribes of Gondor: mainly copies or summaries of histories or legends relating to Elendil and his heirs.†   (source)
  • I was the one who sought you out and advised the professor that you were the ideal man to become his successor.†   (source)
  • He would have begged Seth to teach him the business and possibly groom him as a successor.†   (source)
  • The Orioles were the successor team to the St. Louis Browns.†   (source)
  • He is a worthy successor to his great friend and it is no accident that his great and intelligent leadership has made him our leading statesman.†   (source)
  • No successor to Washington could expect such support as Washington had, she warned.†   (source)
  • "No," said Cersei, "but we must hope that his successor is more vigorous.†   (source)
  • Mohammed's successor, Abu Faraj al-Libi, captured by the Pakistanis in 2005, told interrogators he hadn't seen al-Kuwaiti in a while.†   (source)
  • Any term in this progression is large compared to its predecessor and small compared to its successor.†   (source)
  • "It is a measure of complete desperation to unseat a neighboring monarch, and there isn't a successor that's much more palatable, but Attolia has been growing more and more unstable as she tries to counter Sounis, and with the Mede hanging over us like vultures, instability is more dangerous than anything else," said Eddis, pacing the library.†   (source)
  • The Germans and their successors, the Belgians, never occupied the colony in large numbers.†   (source)
  • Their successors were both southerners named Johnson who had served in the Senate.†   (source)
  • Now as to your temporary successor ….†   (source)
  • I couldn't see my father before, it's forbidden for me, his heir and successor, to set eyes on him from the moment of the king's death.†   (source)
  • It is said that Carlos is swift to make harsh judgments, but, as they also say, better a Satan one knows than a successor one doesn't.†   (source)
  • He's old enough to be thinking about a successor.†   (source)
  • Their successors must improve and perpetuate it.†   (source)
  • A professor of rhetoric at Bowdoin College, sometimes professor of "Natural and Revealed Religion," successor to the chair of the famed Professor Stowe, husband to Harriet Beecher.†   (source)
  • He would have no successor, there would be no dynasty.†   (source)
  • Yet it was not, Stormgren knew, entirely consideration for his successor that made him anxious to see the end of this state of affairs.†   (source)
  • But that many of these young victims were Polish is another measure of the Nazis' frequent and cynical expediency in racial matters, since although Poles were regarded as subhuman, and along with other Slavic peoples, worthy successors to the Jews of the policy of extermination, they did in many cases satisfy certain crude physical requirements—familiar enough in facial feature to resemble those of Nordic blood and often of a luminiferous blondness that pleased the Nazi aesthetic sense…†   (source)
  • I prefer the word "successor" to "replacement" in these situations, because it makes people seem less like spark plugs.†   (source)
  • He was due for some big post soon, and the last I had heard from Zabeth was that he was being considered as a successor to our local commissioner, who had been sacked shortly after the insurrection had broken out.†   (source)
  • They taped also everything this first "Emperor" did, good and bad, for guidance of his successor.†   (source)
  • She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, to give birth out of love for life to successors who would do it in her place.†   (source)
  • As soon as both Houses had organized, the Legislature immediately elected Adams' successor—nine months prior to the expiration of his term!†   (source)
  • Three days from now, after half a century in the service of our country, I shall lay down the responsibilities of office as, in traditional and solemn ceremony, the authority of the Presidency is vested in my successor.†   (source)
  • Now, I should have thought the natural successor to the job, once Draco fails, is yourself?†   (source)
  • My eyes darted down the hall to make sure no Red Successor saw us together.†   (source)
  • It was perfectly possible that to someone on the outside, I'd look like Ruth's "natural successor."†   (source)
  • Robert had a talent for silversmithing, and Uncle Max saw him as a promising successor.†   (source)
  • He and his successors actually held the Parliamentary chair of Primus Baro Angiae.†   (source)
  • What does it mean, though, to become a worthy successor in an unworthy enterprise?†   (source)
  • He introduced Prendergast to the other men on his staff as his "successor."†   (source)
  • Even though I could not be a Red Successor, I would go to Shi-yi!†   (source)
  • "But it's still true that because of him I can't be a Red Successor."†   (source)
  • Ten Red Successors were to be elected from each class.†   (source)
  • Several other Red Successors leaned over his shoulder.†   (source)
  • We Red Successors want to talk with you.†   (source)
  • The Red Successors did not know what to do.†   (source)
  • I did not want to give the Red Successors another excuse to attack me.†   (source)
  • And anyway, the Red Successors were not nearly as glorious as the Red Guards.†   (source)
  • The ten Red Successors were elected, Du Hai and Yin Lan-lan among them.†   (source)
  • You may not be able to join the Red Successors.†   (source)
  • Teacher Gu walked in, and the election for the Red Successors began.†   (source)
  • I kept away from the Red Successors, from the rest of my classmates, from everyone.†   (source)
  • What was Nasuada thinking when she chose me as her successor?†   (source)
  • His successors had followed his example.†   (source)
  • I'm sorry, Eragon, but everyone importantmust stay here until Ajihad's successor is chosen.†   (source)
  • Should that day come, it will be me who names his successor, not you.†   (source)
  • 'This man is the Vice-Premier of the People's Republic, successor to the Chairman himself.'†   (source)
  • Our purpose in assembling here is to elect Hrothgar's successor.†   (source)
  • You're not going to dispose of it or appoint a successor?†   (source)
  • I am besieged by the clans with demands that I do one thing or another about Ajihad's successor.†   (source)
  • Hua Guofeng, Chairman Mao's chosen successor, who else?" he replied.†   (source)
  • Two of his elective successors, Numa and Tulius Hostilius, completed the work.†   (source)
  • But Nurse was dead and Yezzan too sick to name a successor.†   (source)
  • Burundi's president, Ndadaye's appointed successor, also died in the crash.†   (source)
  • They've held him off this long—can't they continue to do so, until a successor can be chosen?"†   (source)
  • I came face to face with my successor two nights ago at the airport.†   (source)
  • Nor would the clans have allowed us to select you as Hrothgar's successor.†   (source)
  • The Old Bear left a few cautionary notes about certain of the men, for his successor.†   (source)
  • In the event of my death, I have chosen you as my successor.†   (source)
  • Archibald had lost the ability to summon the dragons—but would not name me his successor.†   (source)
  • A successor must be chosen—chosen and named, however difficult that may be.†   (source)
  • Their successors followed a different policy.†   (source)
  • We often wondered if the original Jason Bourne was as proficient as his successor.†   (source)
  • If we don't choose Ajihad's successor, someone else will.†   (source)
  • Jon Connington might have been one of those successors if his exile had gone otherwise.†   (source)
  • His successor, Ajihad, did more to oppose the Empire and Galbatorix than any before.†   (source)
  • The first order of business must be the selection of his successor.†   (source)
  • He would feed the results to the Rakitiac computer, remote successor to Univac, Eniac and Maniac.†   (source)
  • Yet that, he thought with a lifting of his spirits, was a problem for his successor.†   (source)
  • The four favorites …. including Baggia …. the most likely successor as Supreme Pontiff …. how is it possible?†   (source)
  • But more important, when the film is premiered, there is a round-faced fellow with a receding hairline in the fifteenth row who'd once held Anna in awe; and while he'd only been the director of the Moscow Department of Cinematographic Arts when he had the pleasure of meeting her in the Shalyapin back in 1923, he was now a senior official in the Ministry of Culture and rumored to be the likely successor to its current chief.†   (source)
  • Academics not long ago had gotten permission to X-ray the tomb of Pope Celestine V, who had allegedly died at the hands of his overeager successor, Boniface VIII.†   (source)
  • When Archbishop Dante de Luna died, bells all over the province tolled unceasingly for nine days and nine nights, and the public suffering was so great that his successor reserved the tolling of bells for the funeral services of the most illustrious of the dead.†   (source)
  • Does he have an alternative successor?†   (source)
  • She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, to give birth out of love for life to successors who would do it in her place.†   (source)
  • And of course, while you were there, you would have ample : opportunity to speak to Gawain Robards, my successor as Head of the Auror office.†   (source)
  • The Justice Department and the P&SA's successor, the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA), stood aside as the large meatpackers gained control of one local cattle market after another.†   (source)
  • Many of the Romantics saw themselves as Kant's successors, since Kant had established that there was a limit to what we can know of 'das Ding an sich.'†   (source)
  • In fact, looking back now, I'm sure I would have had sex with Harry if it hadn't been for this "natural successor" business.†   (source)
  • The truth never occurred to him, which was that Uncle Leo XII was encouraging his nephew, because he, too, had heard the rumors that his habits were different from those of most men, and this obstacle to naming him as his successor had caused him great distress.†   (source)
  • One of the slave-concubines permitted my father under the Bene Gesserit-Guild agreement could not, of course, bear a Royal Successor, but the intrigues were constant and oppressive in their similarity.†   (source)
  • The way she'd nudged me and lowered her voice had made it all too obvious she too was expressing some assumption, probably doing the rounds, about me being the "natural successor."†   (source)
  • Cynthia E.—the girl who'd said about me being Ruth's "natural successor" that time in the Art RoomI wouldn't have minded her, but she went to Dorset with the rest of her crowd.†   (source)
  • My father is a member of the Communist Party now, and my mother will join pretty soon," All hands were raised to elect him a Red Successor.†   (source)
  • "Grandma told me that Ji-li wasn't elected a Red Successor because her classmates asked about our family class status."†   (source)
  • Raising her voice and waving her arm with the new Red Successor armband, she screamed almost hysterically to the whole classroom, "Hey, listen everybody!†   (source)
  • I remembered the humiliating talk with the Red Successors, the terrible accusations of the da-zi-bao.†   (source)
  • Yin Lan-lan and two other Red Successors appeared in the doorway behind Yang Fan, all wearing stern expressions.†   (source)
  • Only college and high school students were allowed to be Red Guards, but our school district had finally granted our school permission to establish the Red Successors.†   (source)
  • Just as the name indicated, the Red Successors were the next generation of revolutionaries, and when they were old enough, they would become Red Guards.†   (source)
  • The Red Successors exploded.†   (source)
  • The Red Successors   (source)
  • That was my job until 1985 when I got a new post and my successor took over as Zalachenko's handler."†   (source)
  • "Thankfully, wiser heads prevailed, and the Conclave accepted the fact of Pycelle's dismissal and set about choosing his successor.†   (source)
  • One week later he reached retirement age and handed the reins to his chosen successor, Fredrik Clinton.†   (source)
  • Sensible, moderate men of both parties would have been pleased had he tarried until after the installation of his successor.†   (source)
  • His successor has decided to try to penetrate ISIS's global terror network with a live agent, a noble goal but incredibly dangerous."†   (source)
  • And you never briefed your successor?†   (source)
  • "If it happens that we're all butchered out there, I mean for my successor to know where and how we died."†   (source)
  • In 1808 the Massachusetts legislature elected a successor even earlier than they had to, which prompted John Quincy to resign before his term ended.†   (source)
  • By this time, Mao's chosen successor, Hua Guofeng, was under house arrest, and Deng Xiaoping became the leader of China.†   (source)
  • For a while we wondered whether the reports regarding the unfortunate death of Uzi's chosen successor were true.†   (source)
  • It won't make any difference, whether I appoint the best successor in the world, or the worst, or none.†   (source)
  • He could not conceive how he and von Rottinger could ever have made such a fundamental miscalculation as to imagine that Wadensjöö was the appropriate successor.†   (source)
  • "In the absence of a High King, a Parliament of minor kings and queens govern Paralon," said Bert, "while a successor is determined.†   (source)
  • …with boredom if they were sober or glazing into an imbecile stare if they weren't, and pretend that he noticed neither, and strain to think of something to say to them, when he had nothing to say —while he needed hours of inquiry to find a successor for the superintendent of his rolling mills who had resigned suddenly, without explanation-he had to do it at once-men of that sort were so hard to find-and if anything happened to break the flow of the rolling mills-it was the Taggart…†   (source)
  • There were rumors his successor intended to keep him on in some capacity—blasphemy in a service that regarded regular turnover at the top almost as a matter of religious doctrine—but officially his future was unclear.†   (source)
  • He wouldn't want to give the project and his reputation to a successor who might be unequal or unfriendly to the task.†   (source)
  • They had had no word from the elves as to who had been chosen as Islanzadi's successor, and when asked, Vanir would only say, "We are not a hasty people, and for us, appointing a new monarch is a difficult, complicated process.†   (source)
  • It was Jefferson's successor, James Madison, who after taking office as President, rescued John Quincy from practicing law in Boston by appointing him minister to Russia.†   (source)
  • One day at school, during lunchtime, some shocking news about Mao's chosen successor came through our village's loudspeakers.†   (source)
  • The dread of Macedonian power induced the league to court an alliance with the kings of Egypt and Syria who, as successors of Alexander, were rivals of the Macedonian king.†   (source)
  • There were only a few hundred dwarves with the Varden at the moment; the rest had returned to Farthen Dar for the burial of their fallen king, Hrothgar, and to wait for their clan chiefs to choose Hrothgar's successor, a fact that she had cursedcountless times since.†   (source)
  • It was early September, and I remember gathering in front of a loudspeaker on the sports ground and hearing the announcement of his death by his successor, Hua Guofeng.†   (source)
  • I did consider his last appointments to office as personally unkind…… It seemed but common justice to leave a successor free to act by instruments of his own choice.†   (source)
  • But I knew your teacher, and while I mourn his passing, I sense that he chose his successor wisely and well.†   (source)
  • In that building in New Jersey, which Tinky Holloway's cousin bought from my bankrupt successors by means of a government loan and a tax suspension?†   (source)
  • If I had died in the course of my duty, then a replacement successor would have been chosen from among our various Houses.†   (source)
  • After much discussion, they finally arrived at a solution: Blodhgarm and the other elves would create apparitions of both Eragon and Saphira, even as they had created one of Eragon when he had gone to the Beor Mountains to participate in the election and coronation of Hrothgar's successor.†   (source)
  • It would also have been more politic to have expressed confidence in his successor, but, such expressions were not Adams's way if he did not mean them.†   (source)
  • WHATEVER ADAMS'S state of mind, he was leaving his successor a nation "with its coffers full," as he wrote, and with "fair prospects of peace with all the world smiling in its face, its commerce flourishing, its navy glorious, its agriculture uncommonly productive and lucrative."†   (source)
  • The philosophical battles of the nineteenth century were hardly so far behind that they had been forgotten, and the doctrine which maintained that life is caused and sustained by a vital principle apart from physical and chemical forces, and that life is self-sustaining and self-evolving, had put up quite a fight before Darwin and his successors had produced triumph after triumph for the mechanistic view.†   (source)
  • "Is this sword now present the direct successor in space-time sequential change, aside from theoretical anomalies involved in between-universe transitions, of the sword used to loll the Never-Born?"†   (source)
  • With this thorn in their side removed, the Radical Republicans in Washington looked anxiously toward Kansas and theselection of Lane's successor.†   (source)
  • His successor.†   (source)
  • On November 10, 1857, Sam Houston was unceremoniously dismissed by the Texas Legislature and a more militant spokesman for the South elected as his successor.†   (source)
  • There is no need for you or your successor to worry unduly about the Freedom League, even when it has recovered from its present despondency.†   (source)
  • You have given birth to your successors, and it is your tragedy that you will never understand them-will never even be able to communicate with their minds.†   (source)
  • As the contest for the State Legislature that would name his successor raged in Missouri, Senator Benton stood fast by his post in Washington, outspoken to the end in his condemna-tion of the views his constituents now embraced.†   (source)
  • Defeated for re-election in 1896, denied even the customary right to make a farewell address at his successor's inaugural ("Illinois has had enough of that anarchist," the new Governor snorted), John Peter Altgeld returned to private life and a quiet death six years later.†   (source)
  • A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors.†   (source)
  • Surely, when God looks about at their successors, He cannot be loath to share His own with us.†   (source)
  • Shen Nung, his successor, the "Earthly Emperor" (r.†   (source)
  • Doubtless Bishop Latour's successors would be men of a different fibre.†   (source)
  • As for the savings, the family money Simon had handled as Grandma's successor, they were gone.†   (source)
  • A world organization has already been erected for the prime purpose of preventing war, UNO, the successor of the League of Nations, with the decisive addition of the United States and all that that means, is already at work.†   (source)
  • The editor of Left Front accepted two of my crude poems for publication, sent two of them to Jack Conroy's Anvil, and sent another to the New Masses, the successor of the Masses.†   (source)
  • The new man, old Michel's successor, his face pressed to the window looking on the hall, gave him a smile.†   (source)
  • And rising one day at dawn she had made a rapid journey through her hospital and convent and orphanage, looking for a soul she might train to be her successor.†   (source)
  • But even that was not perfect, for some of them had sons and daughters that left for the towns, and never came back to fulfil their portion of the contract; and some of them abused the land that they had; and some of them stole cattle and sheep for meat; and some of them were idle and worthless, till one had to clear them off the farm, and not be certain if their successors would be any better.†   (source)
  • It was not what Ellen told her: Ellen at the absolute halcyon of her butterfly's summer and now with the added charm of gracious and graceful voluntary surrendering of youth to her blood's and sex's successor, that concurrent attitude and behavior with the engagement's span with which mothers who want to can almost make themselves the brides of their daughters' weddings.†   (source)
  • We should grow old here together, we should sit like this to our tea as old people, Maxim and I, with other dogs, the successors of these, and the library would wear the same ancient musty smell that it did now.†   (source)
  • A world organization has already been erected for the prime purpose of preventing war, UNO, the successor of the League of Nations, with the decisive addition of the United States and all that means, is already at work.†   (source)
  • To Simon and me Grandma scarcely ever spoke any more, and when the puppy her son Stiva gave her--she couldn't really accept a successor to Winnie but anyway demanded a dog--when it ran to us she cried, "Beich du!†   (source)
  • His successor, the second Archbishop, was also an Auvergnat, from Father Latour's own college, and the clergy of northern New Mexico remained predominantly French.†   (source)
  • …not have had to be blown back to town on the initial blast of that horror and outrage to eat of gall and wormwood stolen through paling fences at dawn: so this was not fixed at all and forever because she couldn't even tell it because of who her successor was, not because he found a successor by just turning around and no day's loss of time even but because of who the successor was, that she might conceivably have ever suffered a situation where she could or would have to decline any…†   (source)
  • That moment was happy, but it was as nothing to its successor.†   (source)
  • He was uncomfortable with her successor, Miss Havstad.†   (source)
  • When Dr. Fleming was thus disposed of it became necessary to find a successor.†   (source)
  • That was because the Antonine emperors all adopted their successors.†   (source)
  • It is your duty to make Stephen your successor.†   (source)
  • This to your future partner! your successor! your son-in-law!†   (source)
  • You see, I haven't found a fit successor yet.†   (source)
  • As her successor in that house, she regarded her with jealous abhorrence.†   (source)
  • "His successor informed me of it yesterday," said Mr. Skimpole.†   (source)
  • In the Preface to its next successor, Little Dorrit, I have still to repeat the same words.†   (source)
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