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heir English

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heir

An heir is the person who gets the property or money when someone dies. Jack was his only heir, so he will get all the money.

heir

a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another (= successor) a person who inherits some title or office

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Simple sentences

The rich merchant adopted the boy and made him his heir.
Turkey is the heir of Ottoman Empire.
He died without an heir.
She died without an heir.
Then Tom claimed the princess for his wife, and married her; and he was heir to the kingdom, and lived long and happily with his wife.
The queen failed to produce a male heir for the king.
Tom died without an heir.
Which prince is the legitimate heir to the throne?
The king's eldest son is the heir to the throne.
He recognized his son as lawful heir.
Tom is your heir.
Queen Elizabeth did not have any direct heir.

Movie subtitles

The Baron von Chanterelle does not wish for his lineage to die out and therefore invites all of the region's maidens to gather in the marketplace so that his nephew, the sole heir, may choose a fitting maiden to take as his wife.
Methinks, from such a feast the heir to King Attilla's crowns should not be absent!
Cursed be the heritage of the heir!
As the sole heir of the Clancharlie, you are at home.
We have no heir to the throne.
But I'm more than Caesar's nephew, I'm his heir.
Oh, I thought she'd given you an heir.
If the Semple attorneys don't know who the heir is, who does?
Wants to know who the heir is.
None whatever, unless of course he happened to make me his sole heir.
I'll bet you two to one that Joyce is the heir.
Well, it's just that in practically every mystery play I've been in, the leading lady turns out to be the heir.
And it's also a strong encouragement to the number two heir to do everything possible to unbalance the brain of the number one heir.
The deed indicates that its owner is a direct heir to Genghis Khan!
This is to inform you that you are the sole heir to your Uncle's fortune.
They clamor for an heir of Swedish blood.
You must give Sweden an heir.
In the absence of an heir of my blood. our constitution gives me the right to nominate for your approval. my successor.
You shall be my heir.
That's why we had you brought here,; to provide Russia with an heir to the throne.
A fine, bouncing, healthy heir.
I expect you two to behave like love birds so Russia will have an heir to the throne.
May our new bride from far away be forever happy. and learn to know the love we have in our Russian hearts for her. and the hope this vast, imperishable empire has. for an heir to the throne.
I had you brought here to be an obedient wife. and to supply my country with a much-needed heir to the throne.
Watching your wife won't give you an heir to the throne.
I suppose you, too, want to congratulate me. as the father of the heir to the throne of Russia.
The empress joins her people in congratulating Your Highness. on the birth of a male heir to the throne of Russia.
Upon going through his papers, a sensational will for this eccentric man was found to the effect that the person in whose arms he would happen to die was to become the sole heir to his enormous fortune.
There's no heir to the Ono's house.
My heir.
King Pepin, which deposed Childeric, did, as heir general, being descended of.
My only son and heir fell in love for real.
I must remind you that the princess is the direct heir to the throne.
What heir of York is there alive but we?
And who is England's king but great York's heir?
You mean that monster we buried back at the camp is the heir to 10,000 years of human progress?
Mistress is happy to give you an heir.
Young Arrius is now the legal bearer of my name and the heir to my property.
You move up to confidant, then heir.
Thus, today would they announce that Phillip, Hubert's son and heir, to Stefan's child would be betrothed.
He's the Asahina heir.

News and current affairs

There are also hints that a reshuffling of important positions within the Party will take place, allowing the presumed heir to form a new power base.
At the Cold War's end, Japan remained obsessed with Russia as the heir to the Soviet Union.
Mediobanca, the financial institution long at the heart of Italian family capitalism, was struggling since the death of its founder Enrico Cuccia and the removal of the man he had designated as his heir apparent.
The UMP is the political heir of Gaullism, but its ideological inconsistency is legendary - and reflected in party name changes every eight to ten years.
On that day, I urged Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and Future Movement leader Saad Hariri, a Sunni and the political heir of his slain father, to make this their paramount slogan.
Perhaps socialism was not an alternative to capitalism, but its heir.
But his opposition to the Gaza Strip withdrawal, coupled with his strong criticism of Sharon, cost him his position as heir apparent.
It is much less favourable to Spain and Poland, since the weighting they received at Nice is almost as great as that of Germany, even though heir population are only half as large.
The assassination of the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at Sarajevo in July 1914 was not the cause of World War I, but its pretext.
Wouldn't Lugovoi's entrance into politics bring about the ideal solution to the problem of finding an heir for Putin?
As heir to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the legendary democratic leader who was hanged by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's government in 1979, Benazir emerged as a symbol of resistance at a young age - but languished in jails and exile in the 1980's.
He also sought to shift the sense of crisis away from economics to politics (where he retained an iron grip) by removing his designated heir, Anwar Ibrahim, who was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance.
Chirac is not about to present himself as a candidate to divide the conservative camp, and the new leniency surrounding his record may actually benefit Sarkozy, his impatient and rebellious heir.
Chancellor Gordon Brown, Tony Blair's heir apparent, is particularly eager to go down that road.
Egypt's heir apparent Gamal Mubarak followed suit in the fourth week of the fighting by heading a 70-member delegation on a solidarity visit to Beirut.
Heir to an imperial tradition that has shaped its national identity, Russia is resuming in the Middle East a role and status more in tune with the one it had from the Czarist era to Soviet times.
But the public continues to regard the FN as the ideological heir to Vichy France - a party that has barely shed its collaborationist clothing.
Indeed, a potential heir today needs legitimacy, not only from the powerful oligarchs but also from the street.
The direction the country will take in the longer term can best be assessed by whom Abdullah chooses to name as the successor to Prince Sultan, Naif's chief ally who has already been named Abdullah's heir.
Recently, Ozawa had a visit that he made to Tanaka's tombstone televised, thereby holding himself up to the public as Tanaka's heir.
A year ago, Netanyahu seemed certain to succeed Sharon. But his opposition to the Gaza Strip withdrawal, coupled with his strong criticism of Sharon, cost him his position as heir apparent.
Argentina's Carlos Menem, the heir to Peronism, the continent's most enduring form of caudillismo, was one such example, but his was a soft caudillismo, which basically maintained democratic norms.
As Congress retakes power, it is Rahul Gandhi, the 39-year-old great-grandson of the man who made that promise, who is the heir-apparent to current Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
As the victorious heir to the collapsed Cold War order, the United States stood alone, undisputed, at the peak of its global power.
But what do we know of the heir apparent, Vladimir Putin?

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