Sentence examples for presumed successor from inspiring English sources

What matters is the approach his presumed successor, Shinzo Abe, takes towards Yasukuni.

Mr. Hu and his presumed successor, Xi Jinping, sit atop the Central Military Commission, the body that oversees the military.

That could spell trouble for Mr. Hu's presumed successor, Mr. Xi, who has yet to establish his own credentials as the party's ultimate authority.

His presumed successor, Xiao Gang, currently the chairman of Bank of China, a state-owned lender, will remain in the background a little longer.

Yet, Mr. Xi, the presumed successor to President Hu Jintao, obliquely referred to the shifting balance of fiscal power between the nations.

The weeklong Communist Party Congress is intended to cap a long transition from the current leadership of Hu Jintao to his presumed successor, Xi Jinping.

The posturing of Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, Blair's presumed successor-in-waiting, and the look-at-me style of David Cameron, 39, the new Conservative Party leader, are endlessly debated.

Lulet e ftohta të marsit (2000; Spring Flowers, Spring Frost) tells the story of a painter in postcommunist Albania, and Pasardhësi (2003; The Successor) examines the fate of one of Hoxha's presumed successors.

He has long been presumed the successor-in-waiting to Sonia Gandhi, his mother and the party's president.

It is a mark of change that his successor is presumed to be Shinzo Abe, a man of only 51 years.

Instead, Mr. Chiluba anointed his former vice president, Levy Mwanawasa, as his successor, presuming that incriminating secrets would remain concealed.