Sentence examples for direct successor from inspiring English sources

Peake is generally regarded as Sharman's direct successor, however.

This year the US hopes to sign what many believe will be Nafta's direct successor – TTIP.

Tibetan Buddhist scholasticism, a direct successor of these traditions, developed particular interests in Madhyamika and in Logic.

And now we have the direct successor that is the opposite of a nothing building, designed not only for delight, but for encouraging innovation.

The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia, named after the two main regions of the Czech Republic, is the direct successor of the Czechoslovak Communist Party.

The hundred and ninety-three participants in the talks have given up on seeking to forge a direct successor to the 1997 Kyoto treaty, which saw most advanced nations (but not the United States) agree to limit emissions.

His direct successors gradually increased the territory over which they had control through conquest and inheritance and also by skillfully exploiting their rights as suzerains in areas not under their direct authority.

The Episcopal Church in Scotland is the direct descendant of those churches that remained loyal to the episcopal tradition, and its bishops are the direct successors of those consecrated to Scottish sees after the Restoration.

The generations of "telly-vicars" in All Gas and Gaiters, Dad's Army, The Vicar of Dibley, and Jam and Jerusalem, are the direct successors of a half-remembered and half-digested picture of Herbert's exemplary country parson.

In the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation, the reception of Roman law was facilitated because its emperors cherished the idea of being the direct successors of the Roman Caesars; Roman law, collected in the Code of Justinian (Corpus Juris Civilis) by the emperor Justinian I between 527 and 565, could be regarded as still being in effect simply because it was the imperial law.

Observe that any vertex x ≠ x0 has k direct successors and x0 has k + 1.