Sentence examples for greatest predecessor from inspiring English sources

As a model for this vision, she need look no further than her greatest predecessor.

… there's a decent chance that our latest brilliant but unassuming chief justice will borrow a trick from his greatest predecessor and persuade his colleagues to decide not to decide.

He was born in the mountains, where only goats and beasts of that kind live - so said Leonardo da Vinci of Giotto, the man he regarded as his greatest predecessor.

(It was only natural that the Royal Astronomer of Ireland would fight on the side of his greatest predecessor!) In the Twenty-first Century, the quaternionists look ever more prescient and their opponents ever more archaic: Sir Robert's "theory of screws", rediscovered, has become part of the roboticist's tool-kit, and I suspect will soon find applications in fundamental physics as well.

He beautifully echoed his greatest predecessor: "Through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could survive half-slave and half-free.

It is a time, rather, for him to recall a policy of one of his greatest predecessors in office, Theodore Roosevelt: Speak softly, but carry a big stick.

In Goldsmith's view, an indifference to the political process has ultimately made Bush a less effective wartime leader than his greatest predecessors.

Tradition has confused him with his great predecessor Nebuchadrezzar II.

AT Symphony Space Tuesday, Donald Isler paid a fascinating homage to a great predecessor.

While his great predecessor, Casey Stengel, mellowed with drink, booze turned Martin into a human Gatling gun.

Amis, like Primo Levi, his great predecessor in prison-camp memorialization, is able to calculate degrees of anguish.