Sentence examples for preparing to succeed from inspiring English sources

His father took over in 1965, and his son David is preparing to succeed him.

Lady Iguala was preparing to succeed her husband as mayor, and she was giving a big speech on the night that the missing students rolled into town.

When Thomas J. Watson Jr. was preparing to succeed his father as chief executive of I.B.M. in the mid-1950s, he visited Olivetti's New York showroom on Fifth Avenue and was so impressed by the space and its contents, that he flew to Italy to see its corporate headquarters.

Rumours had been circulating for days that Sheikh Tamim, 33, was preparing to succeed his 61-year-old father.

Most in the crowd believed they knew what would follow; Constantine and Maxentius, the only adult sons of a reigning emperor, men who had long been preparing to succeed their fathers, would be granted the title of caesar.

For both U.S. automakers, sustainability is now a core business strategy that is improving competitiveness in a global market, creating jobs and helping their bottom lines; it's about preparing to succeed in a global economy that will be profoundly shaped by climate change, water scarcity and the other sustainability challenges of the 21st century.

American colleges also often need to determine whether a student is prepared to succeed at college-level instruction in English.

And they should be better integrated into the college community and show evidence that they are academically prepared to succeed.

"First, every child should be prepared to succeed when they show up in the classroom," Mr. Edwards said.

We play football next August and we, hopefully, do it with an organisation that is prepared to succeed and to come right back up".

As he prepares to succeed Duvvuri Subbarao at the helm of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in September that caution seems prescient.