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Example sentences for "successor"

Lexicographically close words:
successit; successive; successively; successivement; successless; successores; successoribus; successors; successorship; successour
  1. To maintain the supremacy of the successor of St. Peter, he had spent twenty years in treason to his native country.

  2. The successor of Joseph Chamberlain was Arthur James Balfour.

  3. Its legitimate successor is the Jewish Agency referred to in the Mandate for Palestine.

  4. Corilla's successor was the beautiful Fantastici, a young woman of pleasing personality and remarkable powers of improvisation, who soon became a popular favorite.

  5. At the same time, Blanche's son Charles was recognized as his mother's successor in her ancestral kingdom.

  6. This visit to Shrewsbury, as the probable successor of Mr. Rowe, was undertaken by the advice of Mr. afterwards Dr.

  7. In conversation with General Sherman, a month before the removal, he showed that he was then looking for a successor ad interim.

  8. The monarch did not know that the Nation was more than king, all of which his successor learned among the earliest lessons of the Revolution, as this word became the inspiration and voice of France.

  9. In the vicissitudes of public life this great character was dismissed from office, and a successor was found in an inferior person, Sir Nathan Wright, who was created Lord Keeper without a peerage.

  10. Every person holding any civil office, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, is entitled to hold such office until a successor is appointed.

  11. The successor of Sir Nicholas Bacon was Lord Chancellor Bromley; and here we find a record interesting at this moment.

  12. A large portion of our country believe the President a wicked man, of evil thoughts and unpatriotic purposes, in spirit and conduct the successor of Jefferson Davis, through whom the Rebellion is revived.

  13. Khang was the honorary title of Sung, the son and successor of king Wû, B.

  14. The lady-successor was from Hsin, Its eldest daughter, who came to marry him.

  15. Lord Sten wanted to appoint a successor to Trolle, but Bishop Brask objected that the pope might not consent to his removal.

  16. He designated Sten Sture as his successor at the rudder of state, but warned him not to seek the crown.

  17. Sigismund, the son and successor of John III.

  18. His successor surrendered Gullberg to the Danes shortly after the fall of Elfsborg.

  19. He was the successor of one of the most popular of rulers that the country ever saw, but King Oscar has lived to see his own popularity almost outrival that of his predecessor.

  20. But when chosen as Elizabeth's successor in Russia, the Hats selected Adolphus Frederic, prince bishop of Lubeck, who on his mother's side was a descendant of Gustavus Adolphus.

  21. She paved the way for a new foreign influence, by making a German prince her successor and by leaning too much on the Hansa.

  22. This man was a minister of state of the young duke of Holstein-Gottorp, in whose service he remained, and in whose interests, as a successor to Charles XII.

  23. Cederstrom was the responsible party, but upon his resignation his able successor Wirsen was able to cover up his tracks.

  24. Bishop Henric's successor was killed, but Sweden continued to send bishops during the next hundred years.

  25. Count Charles Gyllenborg, the successor of Arvid Horn as president of the chancery, in order to set a good example, always dressed in broadcloth of Swedish manufacture.

  26. They were in possession of all the fortified castles, and if one of them died, the king had no right to select a successor without their permission.

  27. The successor of Phraates was his uncle, Artabanus, a son of Priapatius.

  28. Monobazus was accepted by Volagases as his brother's successor without any apparent reluctance, and proved a faithful tributary, on whom his suzerain could place complete dependence.

  29. Tiridates, the successor of Arsaces, took upon his accession his brother's name, and is known in history as Arsaces II.

  30. Pontus, the son and successor of Rome's ally, had, between B.

  31. Chosroes and his successor could not but feel themselves under obligations to the monarch who, without being forced to it by a defeat, had restored to Parthia the most valuable of her provinces.

  32. They fought on the Persian side at Arbela; and though they submitted to Alexander somewhat tamely when he invaded their country, yet, as Darius was then dead, and no successor had declared himself, they cannot be taxed with desertion.

  33. Parthian history into confusion, and has made even the successor of Mithridates II.

  34. There is considerable doubt as to the immediate successor of Artabanus.

  35. His successor was scarcely proclaimed when in three different quarters the legionaries rose in arms, and, saluting their commanders as "Emperors," invested them with the purple.

  36. The coins of his successor commence in June, A.

  37. The successor of Gotarzes was a certain Vonones.

  38. Doubts as to the successor of Artabanus III.

  39. The seventy years lying between these two dates were covered by the long reign of George III and that of his successor George IV.

  40. Henry's successor was his son Richard I, whose government was quite unimportant except for the romantic personal adventures of the king when on a crusade, and in his continental dominions.

  41. When a tenant had died it was in the meeting of the manor court that his successor obtained a regrant of the land.

  42. A like description is given by Odoric of the mode in which a successor of Kúblái travelled between Cambaluc and Shangtu, with his falcons also in the chamber beside him.

  43. Felice and his successor that Maffeo bequeaths an annuity to procure their prayers for the souls of his father, his mother, and himself, through after the successor the annuity is to pass on the same condition to the senior priest of S.

  44. His successor was Lord Canning, whose confidence in Yule and personal regard for him became as marked as his predecessor's.

  45. It was, however, the Divine Fiat that the intended successor should predecease him who bestowed the nomination.

  46. A successor of this hermit was found on the same spot by P.

  47. The existing Bishop agreed to a composition, but his successor Paolo Foscari (1367) claimed that on the death of every citizen an exact inventory should be made, and a full tithe levied.

  48. In return whereunto, his Majesty, in my humble opinion, will think fit to command me, or whosoever shall succeed me, to perform the same office towards the successor of this French Ambassador.

  49. And Dorcis is already on the seas as successor to Pausanias.

  50. Better so for him and his pride, for he cannot keep the hegemony against the will of the Ionians, whose fleet is so much larger than ours, and it is to his gain if his successor lose it, not he.

  51. Her successor was Ganymede, a Trojan boy whom Jupiter, in the disguise of an eagle, seized and carried off from the midst of his playfellows on Mount Ida, bore up to heaven, and installed in the vacant place.

  52. On the death of this bull, whether it occurred in the course of nature or by violence, the whole land was filled with sorrow and lamentations, which lasted until his successor was found.

  53. Sometimes I think that is about all the good I have accomplished--I, his successor in carrying out your plans!

  54. At that instant my successor will take up my work where I leave it off.

  55. When it was taken up again his successor would be in charge.

  56. He had been in charge of the taime for forty years; consequently there was no sun dance for two years until his successor was selected.

  57. This dance was the first held by Taimete, the successor of Set-daya-ite.

  58. Mosiah gave the people yet greater liberty, and instead of nominating his successor directed them to make their own choice.

  59. Chief Judge Cezoram slain by a Gadianton robber; his son and successor suffers the same fate.

  60. The right of choosing his successor appears to have been vested in the reigning sovereign.

  61. Preparatory to this resignation, he selected one of the leading elders, named Nephihah, to be his successor as chief judge.

  62. When king Benjamin was well stricken with years, the Lord directed him to consecrate his son Mosiah as his successor on the Nephite throne.

  63. Approach of the Athenian reinforcement—Hypermenês, successor of Mnasippus, conveys away the armament, leaving his sick and much property behind.

  64. And in spite of farther efforts made afterwards by Artaxerxes to reconquer Egypt, the native kings in that country maintained their independence for about sixty years in all, until the reign of his successor Ochus.

  65. According to Persian custom, the successor thus declared was entitled to prefer any petition which he pleased; the monarch being held bound to grant it.

  66. He sues the person whose duty it was to have relieved him as successor at the end of the year, but who had kept aloof and cheated him.

  67. The same policy was not only continued by his successor at Salamis, but seems also to have been imitated in several of the other towns; insomuch that during most part of the Peloponnesian war, Cyprus became sensibly dis-hellenized.

  68. Darius, the eldest son of Artaxerxes, had been declared by his father successor to the throne.

  69. It stated that his death occurred at Korla, after a short illness, and that he had nominated as his successor Hakim Khan Torah, to the express disregard of his own sons.

  70. His successor in the governorship of Yarkand did not interfere with the Khokandian officials, but for this moderation he made up by the exactions he committed on the residents, more particularly on the Mahomedan portion of them.

  71. It may be mentioned that, although Chaghtai was a fanatical Buddhist and a confirmed debauchee, he was a prudent and sagacious ruler, and no unworthy successor to his distinguished father.

  72. With the death of his favourite son Jehangir, his hopes of having a worthy successor expired.

  73. The mild dissipation of Mr. Gladstone's surplus by his successor at the Treasury provoked a spurt of censure; but the temperature of public life continued low and its pulse languid.

  74. Thus it may very well happen, and often does happen, that a successor to a small benefit--perhaps a succession worth no more than 500l.

  75. General Jackson still swore "by the Eternal," and his illustrious military successor of a more recent period seems, by his own showing, to have been able to sudden impulses of excitement.

  76. In handing over charge of the camp Kiazim would point out to his successor from Changri the office-copy of the letter about us (which had not been sent), and suggest we be added to the Afion party.

  77. My successor did what he thought you wanted, and what practically the whole camp, including myself, thought you wanted.

  78. Their terms of office shall commence on the first day of February next following their election, and whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of judge, his successor shall be elected for the unexpired term.

  79. Had the Allies intended to make Legitimacy at once odious and ridiculous, they could not better have contrived it than by squatting down this obese imbecile extinguisher upon the throne of France, as the successor of Napoleon!

  80. In the summer of 1853, I was politely advised from the State Department that President Pierce had appointed my successor in the consulate.


  81. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "successor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adherent; aftermath; appendage; attendant; buff; conclusion; consequence; courtier; dependent; descendant; disciple; effect; fan; flunky; follower; following; heir; heiress; henchman; inheritor; line; lineage; offspring; orphan; parasite; partisan; posterity; public; pursuer; replacement; satellite; sectary; sequel; shadow; successor; supporter; tail; votary