Sentence examples for illustrious predecessor from inspiring English sources

He had the good fortune to follow an illustrious predecessor.

M. Cardin, 87, is accused, like his illustrious predecessor, of a kind of exquisite cruelty.

By contrast with his illustrious predecessor, Davis can't hide his avidity.

Contrast him with his most illustrious predecessor, Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as Baby Doc.

Published in 2010, The Long Song more than lived up to its illustrious predecessor.

My most illustrious predecessor, Ernest Hart, made the BMJ important in the 19th century precisely through campaigning and being political.

Even against such illustrious predecessors, Pataki has managed to hold his own.

Otherwise he will end up with an epitaph as sad as those of his illustrious predecessors.

Here are some of my more illustrious predecessors in the "hotel novel" sub-genre.

In his Oedipal competition with his illustrious predecessors, Kim Jong-un needs to claim something that is uniquely his own accomplishment.

If he does not, he can console himself that even his most illustrious predecessors did no better.