Sentence examples for important successors from inspiring English sources

His important successors included Shinkai, Tametsugu, Korenobu, Tamenobu, Tametada, and Gōshin.

The course will end with a brief consideration of the work of one of Descartes's earliest and most important successors, Nicolas Malebranche, both to trace some of Descartes's influence and to highlight the distinctiveness of his views.

Through this combination, Buffon was able to set up a series of theoretical questions that were developed by a group of important successors associated with the Paris Museum into the nineteenth century.

Kant's most important successor, G.W.F.

The man who asked that question was Graunt's most important successor, William Farr, one of the founders of epidemiology.

As a poet, he had become the most important successor to Ferdowsī through his Garshāsp-nāmeh, a heroic epic in masnawi form telling about the adventures in India and Sri Lanka of Garshāsp, a supposed ancestor of Rostam's.

C. 1100 Bologna, Italy c. 1166 Martinus Gosia, (born c. 1100, Bologna [Italy] died c. 1166), jurist, one of the "four doctors" of the Bologna Law School, and an important successor of Irnerius, although probably not his pupil.

With information like that available for the first time, "it becomes necessary to discuss the problem — can lifetime be prolonged by a knowledge of the causes that cut it short?" The man who asked that question was Graunt's most important successor, William Farr, one of the founders of epidemiology.

The most important successor of Motoori in the field of Shintō was Hirata Atsutane (1776 1843), who showed the influence of Roman Catholic teachings in some respects derived from the writings of Jesuits in China by advancing the idea of a creator god and retribution for ethical and religious failings in another world.

Khalilzad has been an effective and important successor to John Bolton at the UN on a number of levels, but one aspect of his service and identity that rarely gets attention is that he is the highest-ranking Muslim in the Bush administration.

At the very least, a signal to negotiators working behind the scenes towards the all-important successor to Kyoto in Copenhagen in December 2009 is clear.