She had inherited her position, and yet, emotionally, she had to start at the bottom and work her way up.
She is a female chief executive in a predominantly male environment; she is also the founder's daughter who has inherited her position and his connections.
She inherits her position from the previous president Ma-ryan, as she is the only remaining student council member after the latter's graduation.
Maria Tatar seems to be inheriting the position of dean of fairy tales, and in her "Annotated Brothers Grimm" (2004) — this is one of Norton's series of copiously annotated classics — she apparently feels that she can afford to be nice to everyone.
However, to point out that Schapiro's position differs from Rawls's is of course not thereby to criticize it; rather, it is to warn against too quickly assuming her position to inherit all of the structural features of the older and more familiar one.
In 1982, Mr. Salam served as president of Al Makassed, a philanthropic Islamic association in Beirut, inheriting the position previously held by his father and, before that, his grandfather.
As a socialist, hereditary power is anathema to my political conscience; I'm baffled by otherwise egalitarian people who are okay with aristocrats inheriting the position of head of state.
The method of becoming a traditional shaman varies from culture to culture, but typically involves a sudden supernatural event, inheriting the position, or training as an apprentice.
When Jakkiabbe took to asceticism, her daughter inherited the position.
Most of the singers are professional chanters, frequently inheriting their positions from their fathers.
Her father died in 1737, when she was eleven, and she inherited the position.
