Sentence examples for he was superseded from inspiring English sources

He was superseded in 1814 by José de San Martín as commander of the army.

Dupleix never recovered from this blow; he was superseded in August 1754 by the director Charles-Robert Godeheu, who made a not unfavourable settlement with the British.

He was superseded by the "visionary" Kubrick, the artificer of slow-moving "sublime" movies like "2001," "The Shining," and "Barry Lyndon".

With the collapse of Nivelle's plan, his fortunes were buried in the ruins, and after some face-saving delay he was superseded as commander in chief by Pétain on May 15 , 1917

He was the founder (1870) and first chief of the Home Government Association and president (1873 77) of the Home Rule Confederation of Great Britain, but he was superseded in 1878 as head of the Home Rule movement by the younger and more forceful Charles Stewart Parnell.

His station houses elevated the level of design for municipal buildings, although he was superseded by even more discriminating designers, like William B. Tubby, the architect of the 1895 station house at Wilson and DeKalb, a tour-de-force mix of medievalism and Scandinavian influences.

He is superseded as supervillain by his father, Prince Kuragin, doing what he does best: wheedling and whining and wincing, over champagne and caviar at the salon of Anna Pavlovna Gillian Andersonn).

The movie centers on the protagonist's escalating feelings of obsolescence as he is superseded by a younger generation of actors more adaptable to the new conditions of art-making and more consumable by a fickle public.

Coke was paying Brooklyn College $60,000 a year through three years of a five-year contract, he said, but that deal was superseded by the new Pepsi contract.

The cathedral he had built in Vilnius was superseded by a pagan temple, and all the diplomatic achievements made after his coronation were lost, although the practice of Christianity and intermarriage were well tolerated.

But he is disingenuously silent about why "traditional" architecture was superseded in the first place.