Sentence examples for inevitable succession from inspiring English sources

Saudi Arabia's senior rulers are old and weary, and prone to factional rivalry as younger princes jostle for power in the inevitable succession to the king, who is thought to be at least 89.

"The first hundred years are the hardest," said Gary Greengrass, Barney's 48-year-old grandson, who said he was already prepping Moe, his red-haired, nearly 2-year-old son, for the inevitable succession.

After a period when he seemed as uncomfortable in his inevitable succession as Britain's Prince of Wales, he jumped rip-roaring into the last weeks of the campaign, as if he could sense the way the wind was blowing.The Democrats will now undoubtedly begin to close ranks behind Mr Gore as Mr Clinton's heir.

You're all there, in the front room, 11PM and maybe time to wind down – but just one more Mock the Week, eh lads, just one more – and then you hear the inevitable succession: heels up a staircase, giggles, shushed silence, keys in the door, clumping.

You're all there, in the front room, 11 PM and maybe time to wind down but just one more Mock the Week, eh lads, just one more and then you hear the inevitable succession: heels up a staircase, giggles, shushed silence, keys in the door, clumping.

But Mr. Murdoch's age becomes more an issue each year, as it raises the inevitable question of succession at the News Corporation, a publicly traded company that also happens to be a family-controlled business.

One theory quietly doing the rounds focussed on the inevitable - the News Corporation succession.

Oh, he's just one of 20 other generals.' " Certainly, the Kim family has worked hard to make the succession appear inevitable.

A political succession is inevitable in a country where the median age is barely 25.The challenge is to manage this change, and keep the gains coming, even as the economy goes through a tougher patch.

For all those Richards, Henrys, and Williams with Roman numerals at the end of their names, clanking onto the battlefield to defend the sacred succession was inevitable; blue blood was meant to be spilled.

While a Shubert affiliation seems to bestow longevity (the eldest board member is 94) speculation over future successions is inevitable.