Sentence examples for imminent succession from inspiring English sources

Both have so far parried calls for change with large dollops of social spending, but face imminent succession troubles.

She spoke warmly about her relationship with her coach, her imminent succession of Michael Phelps as the face of American swimming, her decision to remain an amateur and a future which, for the moment, appears limitless.

China's rulers are preoccupied with an imminent succession in the top leadership, with the economic dislocations that will accompany their entry into the World Trade Organization, with unrest among laid-off workers and failing farmers and with the desire to pull off with panache the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

By 1388, when Fīrūz Tughluq died, the decline of the sultanate was imminent; subsequent succession disputes and palace intrigues only accelerated its pace.

(In one botched effort, a doctor instructs Albert to talk with a mouthful of marbles, a gagging endeavor that might have altered the imminent monarchical succession).

The message was unmistakable: the rules that apply to the rest of Egypt do not apply to the military, still the single most powerful institution in an autocratic state facing its toughest test in decades, an imminent presidential succession.

According to Marshall, a Facebook post about an "imminent" royal succession and his sharing of a German tabloid's striking photos, apparently of the crown prince, were probably "the trigger" for his wife's detention.

Not that succession is imminent.

Dior anointed Saint Laurent as his dauphin, but nobody expected that any royal succession was imminent because Dior, after his New Look triumph in 1947, meant to mature slowly along with his clientele, in the Worth manner.

And it wasn't until his father returned to Jordan in January 1999 from an extended stay at the Mayo Clinic, he says, that he knew the change in succession was imminent.

Some will be offended by the very discussion of this fact, but it must be noted that Mr Prayuth and his classmates have chosen to act effectively as a caretaker regime at exactly the time that a royal succession seems imminent.