Their Congressional predecessors from an earlier era had more latitude.
Another is: "Visit with your predecessors from previous administrations.
The flawed strategic logic of these serial acquirers repeats the failures of their predecessors from the 1970's.
She has watched her predecessors, from Britney to Amy, crash and burn and doesn't intend to make the same mistakes.
Her only complaint was that we did not drink enough, and certainly not as much as our predecessors from the 1950s and 1960s she had outlasted.
The shaky government, itself a product of elections held after popular protests last winter forced its predecessors from office, has not recovered.
The Swedish king counterattacked, and in 1216 he received confirmation from the pope of his title to the lands won by himself and his predecessors from the heathens.
Mr. Papandreou has thus far largely escaped blame for a crisis that has been pinned on the profligacy of his predecessors from the center right.
He would presumably not be pleased if civil servants were committing him to following in the footsteps of his predecessors from the Congress party.
Or perhaps it would be more accurate to suggest that their recent Thatcherite predecessors from the 1980s were less coherent in their view of the state.
The new statements were posted in the last month, after news reports that the government had removed their predecessors from the Web.
