Sentence examples for fallen predecessor from inspiring English sources

Whoever leads Egypt in the longer term is unlikely to be as biddable as his fallen predecessor.

Once your fallen predecessor is gone and the crisis PR managers have departed, as CEO of a damaged vessel, the board is expecting you to lead the corporation (on a successful new course), and to do it quickly and confidently.

Middle-class white boys from the suburbs have fallen behind their predecessors, but middle-class girls and minority children are far better off.

The pitfalls of an encore that is considered to have fallen short of its predecessor are many.

Food stamp participation has increased under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but it had fallen significantly under his predecessor, Rudolph Giuliani, who did all he could to discourage enrollment.

The Obama administration, in rejecting the dangerous neoconservative ideology of its predecessor, had fallen back onto the realpolitik of previous administrations by continuing to support repressive regimes through unconditional arms transfers and other security assistance.

They are planning to set out their doubts in writing this summer.Mrs Merkel knows that some of her predecessors have fallen not because the opposition has proved stronger at the ballot box but because of dissent in their own ranks.

But before anything else, Greenberg, a self-effacing, amiable schmoozer, has had to fix Oak Brook's formerly ugly franchisee relations, which had fallen into disrepair under predecessors Edward Rensi and Michael Quinlan.

It's a neat diagnosis of why Luhrmann's adaptation may have followed its predecessors and fallen short of the novel's promise.

But to NBC's surprise and disappointment, Mr. O'Brien fell behind his predecessor, Jay Leno, even among those 18-to-34 18-to-34 18-to-34p expected to be his core constituency.

But the chore of transferring the numbers from its fallen-apart predecessor is proving too much.