Sentence examples for As a predecessor from inspiring English sources

When he mentions George W. Bush, he speaks as a loving father, not as a predecessor whose example was praised but not followed.

Contrary to what some had expected, none of the members served on the Public Oversight Board, which can be viewed as a predecessor body.

A reference to Philip Larkin as a predecessor of Chambers at Stranmillis College was deleted: when Larkin had held a post at Queen's University Belfast in the 1950s, Stranmillis was not yet a college of the university.

The film abounds in little screens, tablets, and picturephones; in 2011, Samsung fought an injunction from Apple over alleged patent violations by citing the technology in "2001" as a predecessor for its designs.

Two summers ago, when John Harbison's "Abu Ghraib" had its premiere at Tanglewood, Mr. Harbison presided over a panel discussion about political works and cited the Penderecki as a predecessor.

In his studio, as she waited for the movers to take it all away - the desk, the chair, the pens and the dried-up inkwell - Mrs. Hirschfeld Cullman, 74, a theater historian who married Mr. Hirschfeld in 1996, praised his drawing seat as "a predecessor to the ergonomic chair".

Former Mayor David N. Dinkins lives there, as did a predecessor, John V. Lindsay.

(A predecessor as mayor, Anthony Russo, pleaded guilty in a corruption case in 2004).

He would ask Murcer about Thurman Munson, a predecessor as the team's catcher.

Saavedra is depicted instead as a popular caudillo, a predecessor of José de San Martín and Juan Manuel de Rosas.

One of the youth teams, Bollklubben Idrott, also known simply as BK Idrott, was a predecessor to Malmö FF.