Sentence examples for off the succession from inspiring English sources

President Aliyev shrugged off the succession talk, laughing heartily when asked at his polling station if he saw his son as a future president.

Ronald Reagan's vice-president, George Bush Snr, pulled off the succession in 1988 against hopeless Michael Dukakis, as Al Gore, Bill Clinton's number two, did not against crafty Bush Jnr in 2000.

First, it sent a message to China: Back off on the succession issue.

Putting off the question of succession allowed Eisner to discourage the emergence of rivals and to keep power concentrated in his own hands.

The music is generally stirringly staged and performed, but however ingeniously the songs are worked into the action, it feels like a template that has been taken off the peg: this succession of euphoric gatherings and parties with tense behind-the-scenes moments may be the best or only way to make dramatic sense of a string of unrelated songs.

Driver, whose career from "Girls" to Kylo Ren has been a succession of off-the-wall surprises, gives a performance of great, taciturn melancholy.

Mubarak's ideal of a strong but fair leader would seem to discount Gamal Mubarak to some degree, given Gamal's lack of military experience, and may explain Mubarak's hands off approach to the succession question.

Kim did not even feel safe telling his strait-laced father about his new love; the affair could bump him off the fast track to succession.

Time Warner on Wednesday put off the difficult question of succession at its movie studio, by extending the contract of Mr. Meyer — who had been expected to retire at the end of next year — through 2013.

As is often the case in Iraq, the bombs were timed to go off in succession, according to the police and local news reports.

He intervened in a quarrel between the ruler of the Mataram kingdom of Java and his brother, thus touching off the Third Javanese War of Succession (1749 57), which left Mataram split into two kingdoms.