Sentence examples for before succession from inspiring English sources

A spokesman said the family was upset that the world had been notified before succession could be discussed or funeral arrangements made.

Joseph Fan of the Chinese University of Hong Kong studied succession in 250 family firms in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore and found that on average the firms lost 60% of their value in the period spanning five years before succession and three years afterwards.

Before the Hanoverian succession, before the use of "prince" became settled practice, royal sons were styled Lord Forename or the Lord Forename.

Since then, we have been through many PC's, each more powerful than the one before, in dizzying succession.

In the event, though, it was City's slight but significant air of callowness in this competition that allowed Roma's venerable A-listers to creep back into the match and equalise from a goal down before creating a succession of chances on the break in the first half.

The objects of perception, as before, are a succession of constantly-changing immediate awarenesses.

A chair who has been involved in succession before, as an incoming or outgoing CEO or as a board member, may add legitimacy to the board's process.

They'd done this performance in Jena the year before; now they performed in 10 different cities before a succession of suitably bewildered audiences.

Just before Malawi's institutions had been completely hollowed out, before a succession plan had been cemented – Mutharika died.

Lucas had taken the case before a succession of judges in an effort to halt Ainsworth's work.

While the Dear Leader was groomed for well over a decade before his succession, Kim Jong-un's elevation has been far more abrupt.