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This new language seems to be poised to replace Objective-C as the main programming language on Apple's platforms.

Le Journal de Montréal claims PBC is poised to replace the established rulers.

When Mr. Wilson resigned in 1976, Mr. Callaghan was poised to replace him.

In 2008 rumours swirled that Roitfeld was poised to replace Wintour, with New York Magazine referring to Roitfeld as "The Anti Anna".

Two will come from within the organization: the secondary coach Dennis Thurman is poised to replace Mike Pettine as defensive coordinator, and the assistant Ben Kotwica will succeed the retiring Mike Westhoff as special-teams coach.

Flood is poised to replace Jonny Wilkinson at No10 while Moody, out of action since the first week in August, will be invited to show he has completely recovered from knee ligament damage.

What I saw was Clearview, the typeface that is poised to replace Highway Gothic, the standard that has been used on signs across the country for more than a half-century.

The Brazilian vice-president Michel Temer – who is poised to replace Rousseff – told the Wall Street Journal the president was damaging Brazil's reputation and undermining its chances of securing foreign capital.

Reports have recently suggested that Morgan is poised to replace the veteran talkshow host Larry King on the US news channel CNN in a deal said to be worth £5.5m.

Aung San Suu Kyi has said building peace will be the first priority of her pro-democracy party's administration, which is poised to replace Myanmar's military-backed government.

Under a convoluted system of term limits, the academy, which includes about 6,000 filmmaking professionals, is poised to replace a president, Hawk Koch, who could serve for only one year because he had exhausted his permitted tenure on the governing board.