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For the most part, the album, like its predecessor, gives a warm glow, akin to talking rubbish over a couple of cans with your mates.
Abera is now a worthy successor to his great predecessor, whose premature death in 1973 is marked by a monumental tomb in Addis Ababa.
I remember my predecessor telling a wonderfully self-deprecating anecdote of his initial activities as a theatrical angel.
And with all due respect, I think the President enjoys the benefit of many of the policies that began under his predecessor.
Not much of a shooter, he scores about 10 points less per game then his predecessor used to.
The original was cool, but this one tries with unsuccessful results to live up to the legacy of its predecessor.
But first, a look at his controversial predecessor, who achieved great things, but also had tragic flaws.
He fits the profile of the classic moderate New York Democrat, like his predecessor, who frequently fought to keep a lid on taxes in the city.
Unlike his predecessor, who was seen as ecumenical, Benedict is seen as a sectarian who will not reach out to other religions.
The new right-of-centre government has accused its predecessor of leaving state finances in disarray.
Honda honors its commitment to society by casting the 2001 Civic in the image and likeness of its predecessor.
Like his film-star predecessor Ronald Reagan, he makes no great claims to artistry.
The latest beauty contest winners to step onto the Bollywood stage are the reining Miss World and her predecessor.
It is clear that the present Governor loosened monetary policy earlier than his predecessor would have done.
Later, the Babylonian Talmud was compiled, which was thought to be superior to its predecessor.
Each line is obtained by adding a certain multiple of its predecessor to the one before that.
What we have then is an enormous bench covered with large made-to-measure cushions, thus increasing the comfort of its Ibizan predecessor.
It is obviously not a play and, like its predecessor, it is a loosely knit series of monologues on birth and motherhood.
Unlike his predecessor, he sees no political mileage in turf wars, or even pursuing different legislative agendas.
There was none of the tub-thumping of his predecessor at last night's fans' forum.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A good brass commemorates Alcock's predecessor in the archidiaconate, Richard Bole.
As compared with its predecessor allosaurus, the Tyrannosaurus is much more massively proportioned throughout.
In humour and in musicianship alike it is less subtle than its predecessor, but it triumphed by sheer dash and high spirits.
His predecessor had only the commendation of this, and Harold had the soke.
Duc de Soria, your predecessor would neither cost you a regret nor rob you of a maravedi.
Of those of my immediate predecessor it might least become me here to speak.
Slowly, laboriously out of the ashes rose a new hull, a stauncher one than its ill-fated predecessor.
But Isin again gathered strength under Ur-Ninip, who was not related to his predecessor.
Relief of the railroads from certain restrictions of the antitrust law have been urged by my predecessor and will be urged by me.
In this respect he followed the example set by his predecessor, Theodosian.
The only bone developed in connection with the appendicular skeleton, which has no cartilaginous predecessor, is the clavicle.
It was probably the predecessor of the Arab canon, which again is much the same as the santir.
The day was worse than its predecessor, inexpressibly gloomy and disheartening.
The door creaked as the chanter entered who was to relieve his predecessor.
And this has perhaps given to the eighteenth century an urbaneness from which its predecessor was largely free.
Willem's predecessor, Hendrick van Veldeke, is merely a translator.
General Plaza continued the anticlerical policy of his predecessor.
The last note, dated 1861, March 20, was briefer than its predecessor.
His predecessor, celestine V., had actually used them in a Bull.
It was the premature predecessor, also, of a number of such anthologies which were published during the latter half of Elizabeth's reign.
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