Sentence examples for only predecessor from inspiring English sources

Of course Guston is hardly the only predecessor whose influence has marked Mr. Komarin's canvases.

A former civil servant under the British, Mr Tsang, like his only predecessor, was picked by Chinese leaders.

The city awarded him the rare accolade of naming him "Public Enemy No 1", his only predecessor being Al Capone.

And though he was careful to pooh-pooh the idea in displays of public modesty, Mr. Davis was hardly displeased to be mentioned in the same breath with his only predecessor to make it to the White House: Ronald Reagan.

His only predecessor, Norman Rosten, remained Poet Laureate from 1979 until his death, last year....And while only Brooklyn as a Poet Laureate, the Borough President suggests that every borough deserves one.

Some negotiators say Mr. Moore seems less able than earlier trade chiefs -- both Mr. Ruggiero, his only predecessor at the W.T.O., and leaders of the group's forerunner, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade -- to jump over hurdles at difficult negotiating junctures.

Oddly, I never liked Honeycomb, the tablet-only predecessor from which Ice Cream Sandwich takes so many visual cues.

Messenger is a cacophony of brightly colored buttons, panels, blinking advertisements and, in the new version, animated (and even homemade) smileys; iChat AV maintains the clean lines and brushed-metal "surfaces" of its text-only predecessors.

As a form of grassroots promotion, Lee connected Jeezy with a neighbor of his, DJ Drama, who was known for putting together unlicensed CD compilations of recent hits; they were called mixtapes, after their cassette-only predecessors.

Instead, Biden wanted the role every vice president wants, but which perhaps only his predecessor, Dick Cheney, had enjoyed: to be the last voice in the room.

The casualty figures at Shiloh were five times greater than its only major predecessor engagement, the Battle of Bull Run, and people were left with the shocking apprehension that more, and perhaps many more, such confrontations were in store before the thing was settled.