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Simple sentences
Two is the only prime whose successor is prime.
Movie subtitles
Choose among us his successor.
And so, as that child. you are to be my successor.
Talk to my successor.
My successor will be due any moment.
It would be dreadful if Dr. Murchison's successor was unworthy of him.
Now we come to the real purpose of this meeting. to appoint a successor to our dear friend, Peter Bailey.
Who else could be your successor?
At tonight's banquet I will announce and celebrate my successor.
Well, you're breaking in your successor.
Is there a successor to the family title? Yes.
I finally had to take a hand in training your successor. but she'll never replace you.
Her successor.
Successor?
Do you think Tiberius really has me in mind as his successor in Rome?
In the absence of an heir of my blood. our constitution gives me the right to nominate for your approval. my successor.
But I'd lose men too men that I need to fight your successor when he comes in spring.
Now to the matter of your successor. What do you think of Don Alejandro?
When you resign, you'll appoint him as your successor.
And now we come to the real purpose of this meeting, to appoint a successor to our dear friend Peter Bailey.
And his successor every inch a fraud.
Within 24 hours, you'll be named my successor.
I will not receive the successor to the throne, gentlemen.
Is there a successor to the family title?
No matter what, the first successor must be in charge.
May I introduce my successor?
Everything might change with your successor.
But how to find his successor, in this emergency?
Yes, the chief of police, my successor.
Your successor?
Your successor!
I were training my successor.
I said if couldn't find a suitable successor. I'd return my temple to the headquarters?
He's my successor.
Mr Miereveld as your successor.
News and current affairs
So Kuchma knows that he cannot rely on handpicking his successor, as Yeltsin did in Russia.
If Bush or his successor wants to ensure that the next round of talks fails, that will be easy enough.
The designated successor to Mao Zedong in China, Hua Guofeng, raised this attitude to an art form.
But, with no single all-powerful leader, it will be hard for any successor to force through the difficult decisions required by such an orientation.
Arafat not only left no successor, but no order.
Of the three tests so far conducted, one failed almost, two entirely, which is why President Clinton left the matter to his successor.
Moreover, Putin himself is in the business of sterilizing Russia's democratic processes by handpicking his successor and having his courts and electoral commissions block his opponents from political participation, often tarring them as traitors.
Once Korean students overthrew the dictatorship of Park's successor, Chung Doo-hwan, Korean scientists, engineers, economists, and others, returned home en masse, bringing knowledge acquired in the US with them.
Even with Saddam deposed, what is to prevent a successor regime from using oil power to oppress Iraq's people?
And, although Turkmenbashi died in December, his successor, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, has continued to imprison dissidents, stifle freedom of expression, and scoff at democracy, as February's rigged elections demonstrate.
Moreover, President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi's mandate ends at the same time that parliament dissolves, which means that his successor, elected by the new parliament, would have to nominate a government without a majority in both houses.
Kennedy's successor, Lyndon Johnson, lamented that he lacked charisma.
Although Santos was both Uribe's defense minister and preferred successor, relations between the two have soured.
Why should the search for Wolfensohn's successor be limited to an American (and especially an American loyal to a particular political party)?
Arafat's ability to symbolize the Palestinian cause throughout the world has worn thin in recent years, but any successor would be more obscure.
In a post-Arafat situation, it will be much harder for any successor or successors to impose discipline and hierarchy on the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the PA, or Fatah.
For example, Kim Il Sung groomed his son Kim Jong-il as his successor for about two decades before the younger Kim took power in 1994.
Kim Jong-il, however, has not yet even chosen his successor.
Foreign Minister Taro Aso, another possible successor to Koizumi, has called for the Japanese Emperor to pray at Yasukuni.
It is widely expected that Kim Jong-il's third son, Kim Jong-eun, will be appointed to a key position and be publicly announced as his father's successor.
Perhaps Obama thinks that he or his successor can deal with that threat down the road.
I wrote those words with the French political scientist Jacques Rupnik in 1991, just as war was breaking out among Yugoslavia's successor states.
This conundrum will lie at the heart of the diplomacy next year to find a successor to the Kyoto agreement.