Sentence examples for direct successors from inspiring English sources

But the free schools and academies now being created by Gove are the direct successors of Thatcher's grant-maintained schools and CTCs.

In particular, al-Sham was a province in the earliest Muslim empire, presided over by the "rightly guided caliphs" – the direct successors of Muhammad.

Or perhaps future engineers will leapfrog to even faster hypersonic aircraft, leaving the Concorde as a technological dead end with no direct successors.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The National Front, the direct successor to the Alliance Party of the 1950s, has been one of the world's longest-governing parties, outside of authoritarian regimes like China, North Korea and Cuba.

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